New ChessVideos Show: Smooth Positional Chess, with Blunders
My latest ChessVideos show (link) presents a game I won many moons ago, and with which I was quite pleased at the time. It's not a bad game, positionally speaking, but as you may see, if you're alert, there might be a mistake lurking in the bushes. See if you can find it (you've already got a leg up - you know there's something to be found), but don't look so hard that you don't enjoy the game for its other merits.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Friday April 11, 2008 at 1:39am
They're non-intuitive due to the positional requirements of the set-up. The only reason I found those moves was because I didn't have enough knowledge to know they were counter-intuitive. I just didn't understand the requirements of the position. In my complete ignorance I found the moves not even knowing that most of the time these would be bad moves. So found the right moves for all the wrong reasons = got lucky. Good thing I don't have to make money at this game. :-(
btw, I didn't see all the variations either and probably would have lost the game despite finding the first few moves.
An interesting game.