Poly Chess Championship Game 2: MichaeltheGreat-Jaguar Warrior

[Solver]

Apparently you do, well looking there . I always have had dislike for Sicilian, though.

Gotta find how your high US rating compares to ELO ratings, somehow.

[MichaeltheGreat]

It's the same system. The only difference is some small variations in local pools, with FIDE and whoever else it was that came along having a larger top end pool than the US or anywhere else.

If you go back to the 70's to early 80's, then Soviet Chess Federation players were about 50 points stronger for a given rating than USCF players, with that difference getting smaller at the top, and larger at the bottom.

I played against some FIDE rated players, but not enough, and not in FIDE rated events, so a USCF rating was all I had.

[Solver]

But then your rating was pretty kickass... I assume that you could still provide a very competetive game at tournaments, why don't you do that anymore?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Too much time. Now that I have kids, I don't want to spend an entire weekend with chess geeks. And at the time, I was forcing in several hours of play/practice/study a day to break master (2200) and try to move up further.

I had about 70 specialized reference books, my monthly subscriptions to Shakhmatny Byuletin and also got Shakhmatny Riga, made my monthly trip to Znanie bookstore in the Russian quarter of San Francisco to get Soviet newspapers that had reports and games from recent events within the USSR, and I went through all of that stuff.

It used to be fairly lucrative, too - in the last four months before I crossed Candidate Master (at the time, called Expert in the USCF system) I placed first, tied first, or second in 9 of 9 tournaments, and first or tied first in the last four of those in a row, so my rating shot up quite solidly over 2000. In those weekend tournaments, I made from $150 to $500 each weekend, all over the bay area, and so it was sort of a part time job. Once I crossed the 2000 rating barrier, I was in the open group, and there were several GM's and IM's from the bay area mostly, and they came down to harvest money from the mere mortals. So it went from positive cashflow to negative, and I pretty much hit the limits of my talent - no matter how much I'd work, I just wasn't gonna get that much better.

One day, I just burned out and quit altogether. Sold my books and some of my boards, sold my clock, and didn't look at a chess position for four years. Played one game after four years, then didn't touch it for six more.

Just this last couple of years, I've played about 15 games online, and that's been it.

[Solver]

You got Shahmatnyi Riga ? I've seen many good chess players here in Riga though.... currently, we also have a pretty young girl that is the best Latvian chess player in a long while.

But heck, you are almost a Master at chess... that's jolly great. I would never beat that... candidate master is the highest I've ever beaten, and that was with me playing decently.

Maybe I should have gone for a bigger career in chess... with both my grandfathers and father being pretty decent players... hmm!

[Jaguar]

1 e4 c5
2 Nc3 e6
3 g3 Nc6
4 Bg2 Nf6
5 d3 c4
6 d4 d5
7 e5 Nd7
8 Nce2 Be7
9 Nh3 h5
10 c3 b5
11 Nef4 h4
12 Qg4 g5
13 Ng5 Bg5
14 Ne6 Nde5

edit: I said Nda5 by mistake. That move, is of course, illegal, and I intended e5 all along. Sorry.

[Jaguar]

getting real complicated now.

pic

[Solver]

Ya, complciated... I had given the matter much thought and also opted for Kde5 then...

BTW, MTG's diagrams still look better - for me, the simpler the better.

[Solver]

Wow... MTG is in an icredibly strong position... should get some of JW's pieces now... go go JW try to resist!

MTG will make the move I mean anyway, being so good .

[MichaeltheGreat]

1 e4 c5
2 Nc3 e6
3 g3 Nc6
4 Bg2 Nf6
5 d3 c4
6 d4 d5
7 e5 Nd7
8 Nce2 Be7
9 Nh3 h5
10 c3 b5
11 Nef4 h4
12 Qg4 g5
13 Ng5 Bg5
14 Ne6 Nde5
15 de

[Jaguar]

1 e4 c5
2 Nc3 e6
3 g3 Nc6
4 Bg2 Nf6
5 d3 c4
6 d4 d5
7 e5 Nd7
8 Nce2 Be7
9 Nh3 h5
10 c3 b5
11 Nef4 h4
12 Qg4 g5
13 Ng5 Bg5
14 Ne6 Nde5
15 de Be6

For those who can't read the notation, I took his knight with my bishop. I don't feel like making a diagram, since no matter how hard I try, my diagrams aren't good enough for Solver.

[MattH]

That set you back two Knights and a pawn... at least the board has cleared a bit

[MichaeltheGreat]

1 e4 c5
2 Nc3 e6
3 g3 Nc6
4 Bg2 Nf6
5 d3 c4
6 d4 d5
7 e5 Nd7
8 Nce2 Be7
9 Nh3 h5
10 c3 b5
11 Nef4 h4
12 Qg4 g5
13 Ng5 Bg5
14 Ne6 Nde5
15 de Be6
16 Qg5

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by MattH
That set you back two Knights and a pawn... at least the board has cleared a bit

Its not quite that bad, but I've definitely lost somethin here.

1 e4 c5
2 Nc3 e6
3 g3 Nc6
4 Bg2 Nf6
5 d3 c4
6 d4 d5
7 e5 Nd7
8 Nce2 Be7
9 Nh3 h5
10 c3 b5
11 Nef4 h4
12 Qg4 g5
13 Ng5 Bg5
14 Ne6 Nde5
15 de Be6
16 Qg5 Qg5

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
Its not quite that bad, but I've definitely lost somethin here.

Compared to the alternatives, you haven't done badly at all.


1 e4 c5
2 Nc3 e6
3 g3 Nc6
4 Bg2 Nf6
5 d3 c4
6 d4 d5
7 e5 Nd7
8 Nce2 Be7
9 Nh3 h5
10 c3 b5
11 Nef4 h4
12 Qg4 g5
13 Ng5 Bg5
14 Ne6 Nde5
15 de Be6
16 Qg5 Qg5
17 Bg5


That didn't take much thought.