Sunday, January 23, 2011

Pale, She Stands Alone, Forking All About Her

Hi!  I'm reading chess books pretty heavily and finally seeing my online rating rise above 1200.  To all the other neophytes out there (or sympathetic adepts) , I offer my own humble games, which are at least becoming more interesting to myself.  Feel free to comment. 


I destroyed my own king-side pawn structure in trading material with white, carelessly and kindly opening the G and H files upon my king, whom stands blissfully exposed.  White, in his making haste to attack the black king, did not bother to castle so that his king-side rook could join in.   I remained fairly confident that white's brutish queen would be unable to cause much trouble there by herself — 6.  Qh5+ answered simply  ...g6.

Ironically, when white did frantically attack with more pieces, I had evacuated to an iron defensive position queen-side; and as a result my queen alone was able to capture the pieces that white had miserably fetched into his own forks.  I must say, my dark bishop was a devilishly sly fellow.  With white's queen immobilized in the center, my rooks quickly came to aid the black queen in mating the lonely white monarch.

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