Wood Pushing

[Julius Brenzaida]

1 c4 … e5
2 Nc3 … Nf6
3 g3 … d5
4 exd5 … Nxd5
5 Bg2 … Nb6
6 Nf3 … Nc6
7 a3 … Be6
8 d3 … Nd4
9 Nd2 … Qc8
10 e3 … Nc6
11 O-O … Qd7
12 Nb3 … O-O-O
13 d4 … h5
14 a4 … h4
15 a5 … Nd5
16 a6 … b6

[Julius Brenzaida]

I hope I have stopped your attack

[Smash]

1 c4 … e5
2 Nc3 … Nf6
3 g3 … d5
4 exd5 … Nxd5
5 Bg2 … Nb6
6 Nf3 … Nc6
7 a3 … Be6
8 d3 … Nd4
9 Nd2 … Qc8
10 e3 … Nc6
11 O-O … Qd7
12 Nb3 … O-O-O
13 d4 … h5
14 a4 … h4
15 a5 … Nd5
16 a6 … b6
17.Nxd5

[Smash]

You flatter me by calling that an attack

Its hard as I must try to avoid drawish lines.That has meant playing "not the best" move.My position is not great because of it.

I commend you for playing aggressively when a draw would suffice

[Julius Brenzaida]

1 c4 … e5
2 Nc3 … Nf6
3 g3 … d5
4 exd5 … Nxd5
5 Bg2 … Nb6
6 Nf3 … Nc6
7 a3 … Be6
8 d3 … Nd4
9 Nd2 … Qc8
10 e3 … Nc6
11 O-O … Qd7
12 Nb3 … O-O-O
13 d4 … h5
14 a4 … h4
15 a5 … Nd5
16 a6 … b6
17 Nxd5 … Bxd5

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Smash
You flatter me by calling that an attack
Its hard as I must try to avoid drawish lines.That has meant playing "not the best" move.My position is not great because of it.
I commend you for playing aggressively when a draw would suffice

Well, you wouldn't call my h pawn thrust an attack either !
To play for a draw is like to play for a defeat !

[Smash]

1 c4 … e5
2 Nc3 … Nf6
3 g3 … d5
4 exd5 … Nxd5
5 Bg2 … Nb6
6 Nf3 … Nc6
7 a3 … Be6
8 d3 … Nd4
9 Nd2 … Qc8
10 e3 … Nc6
11 O-O … Qd7
12 Nb3 … O-O-O
13 d4 … h5
14 a4 … h4
15 a5 … Nd5
16 a6 … b6
17 Nxd5 … Bxd5
18.dxe5


These new forums are drivin me nuts!I have "light" and everything turned off and it still takes forever to load pages.Took a better part of 15 minutes just to post this.
Progress...you can keep it

[yin26]

The Road not Taken
By Robert Frost - 1916

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[Julius Brenzaida]

1 c4 … e5
2 Nc3 … Nf6
3 g3 … d5
4 exd5 … Nxd5
5 Bg2 … Nb6
6 Nf3 … Nc6
7 a3 … Be6
8 d3 … Nd4
9 Nd2 … Qc8
10 e3 … Nc6
11 O-O … Qd7
12 Nb3 … O-O-O
13 d4 … h5
14 a4 … h4
15 a5 … Nd5
16 a6 … b6
17 Nxd5 … Bxd5
18 dxe5 … Bxg2

[Julius Brenzaida]

Thanks a lot Yin26 for the answer on my poetry question. Eck, isn't chess a kind of poetry. Finally, this game will at last look like a Capablanca one with some ending mastery, I believe.

[ACOLKitty]

Originally posted by yin26
The Road not Taken
By Robert Frost - 1916

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

?

I have a record of Frost reciting this.

[yin26]

Julius Brenzaida:

My pleasure. Perhaps we should have Kitty post up the recording?

[Smash]

1 c4 … e5
2 Nc3 … Nf6
3 g3 … d5
4 exd5 … Nxd5
5 Bg2 … Nb6
6 Nf3 … Nc6
7 a3 … Be6
8 d3 … Nd4
9 Nd2 … Qc8
10 e3 … Nc6
11 O-O … Qd7
12 Nb3 … O-O-O
13 d4 … h5
14 a4 … h4
15 a5 … Nd5
16 a6 … b6
17 Nxd5 … Bxd5
18 dxe5 … Bxg2
19 Qxd7+


if 19....Rxd7,then 20.Kxg2

[Julius Brenzaida]

How did you guess my next move ?

[Smash]

sheer luck.

More seriously,I have great difficulty seeing how I'm gonna turn this into a win