BEAU CHESS - the post-work workings-out of a chess amateur

I begin this blog after getting back into league chess following many years' absence due to work. My post-job status also means I am able to play more tournament chess. My new club in London is Battersea and my first game for them is on Thursday September 14, 2017. I start with a Fide rating of 1858, an ECF grade of 169 (=1968 elo) and an ICCF correspondence rating of 2267. My current Fide is 1902, my ECF is 1913 and my ICCF is 2277.

Sunday 29 August 2021

More Calamity!

REACHED the following position with the white pieces against English junior Adam Faulkner (1628 Fide/1819 ECF) in round seven of the Northumbria Challengers (U2000) this afternoon.

Black has just played 15...Nc7-e6

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The analysis engines Stockfish14 and Komodo12.1.1 reckon White is better after either 16.Nxe6 Bxe6 17.Nd5!? Bxb2 18.Nb6 Qe8 19.Rb1 Bg7 20.f5 or simply 16.Nde2!?

Instead I played 16.Nd5?? Nexd4 17.Nxe7+ Nxe7, only to realise I would be a piece down after 18.Bxd4 (0-1, 29 moves).

2 comments:

RdC29 August 2021 at 22:48
That's an example of the rule sometimes recommended to beginners of determining the threat to a piece or pawn by counting the attacking pieces and the defending ones.
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Tim Spanton30 August 2021 at 09:10
Maybe. To my mind I simply miscounted the number of pieces Black would capture compared to the number White would capture - an idea so simple that not even beginners need to be taught it.
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