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Chess commentary #2

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IMlemon
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Lithuania296 Posts
July 04 2010 16:10 GMT
#1
Heya.

I'm an enthusiastic chess player, used to play somewhat competetively 3 years ago, but stopped and now I'm really rusty. I find that simply verbalizing your thoughts helps a lot to see flaws in your thinking, so I've been doing that lately to help myself get back in shape. And I figured, why not make some videos? Yeah I'm not a great player by any means, but I suppose people might still find this interesting.

I've done one commentary before (see previous blog entry) and this is the second one. Cheers.

http://blip.tv/file/3838465

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Elroi
Profile Joined August 2009
Sweden5600 Posts
July 04 2010 16:17 GMT
#2
Thx a bunch! I love your chess commentaries.
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malathion
Profile Joined March 2009
United States362 Posts
July 04 2010 16:49 GMT
#3
Do you have an ELO?
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24772 Posts
July 04 2010 16:53 GMT
#4
Thanks for the commentary. What an epic finish hahaha.

Why were you so strongly trying to get your knight to e4? I remember reading that it's good to get your knight backed up on the fourth row if you are black (fifth if you are white) but don't totally understand why this is such a general fact.

I mean once he positioned himself so that you could threaten a royal fork there the motivation to dance the knight around for four moves made a bit more sense to me. I find positioning knights like that to be very difficult...
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Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
July 04 2010 17:03 GMT
#5
ahhhhhhhhhhh

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lool woow, nice win at .3 seconds! that was hilarious
IMlemon
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Lithuania296 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-04 17:07:34
July 04 2010 17:04 GMT
#6
On July 05 2010 01:49 malathion wrote:
Do you have an ELO?


Yeah, 1768... I got it in my very first rated tournament, where I had only ~6 months of expierence so I got owned. I never had a chance to improve it because rated tournaments happen rarely where I live and require and take lots of time, which I don't really have.

@micronesia: well I didn't say that out loud but I couldn't really find a suitable square for the knight except e4, so I just went for it. Moving to e7 was natural because I wanted to keep strong hold over f5 and d5, and then it was only a few moves to get to e4, not like I had much else to do.
My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
SmiLeSE
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden58 Posts
July 04 2010 17:52 GMT
#7
That was a great game. Makes me understand why I suck at chess :D
TaaiJoeng
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Hong Kong164 Posts
July 04 2010 18:29 GMT
#8
I love chess More people should commentate chess XD
...but the parasites say NO!
Metalwing
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Turkey1038 Posts
July 04 2010 18:46 GMT
#9
Nice game :D very strong play :D
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LunarDestiny
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States4177 Posts
July 04 2010 19:17 GMT
#10
Wow, if you didn't spent too much bullshitting in the beginning you won't be back against the wall of winning the game only by 0.3 second...

Next time maybe you can show that "Dutch Defense" you were talking about.
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
July 04 2010 22:51 GMT
#11
On July 05 2010 04:17 LunarDestiny wrote:
Wow, if you didn't spent too much bullshitting in the beginning you won't be back against the wall of winning the game only by 0.3 second...

Next time maybe you can show that "Dutch Defense" you were talking about.

What is wrong with you, he played great and was only "bullshitting" because he was giving us commentary, which I really appreciate a lot more than just running through book going "this is pretty standard" like most players do.

I'm only 1668 so the thought process he shows in his play is a little deeper than what I usually think in a 15 minute game. I tend to play those like I play blitz.
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IMlemon
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Lithuania296 Posts
July 05 2010 14:34 GMT
#12
On July 05 2010 04:17 LunarDestiny wrote:
Wow, if you didn't spent too much bullshitting in the beginning you won't be back against the wall of winning the game only by 0.3 second...

Next time maybe you can show that "Dutch Defense" you were talking about.


Hahah, I suppose you are right. But when I watch most of the commentaries its like: "I go to xx, he goes yy, I go zz, he goes ...". Well duh, I CAN SEE THAT MYSELF. If I don't "bullshit" then I might as well not commentate.

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