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Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:59 am
by Monadology
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I'm not sure what's going on here. The Queen can't stay there, thanks to this knight move. The Queen can't do any damage by attacking my castled king (without getting captured). Her position would be helpful if he could pull off a back-rank check with a rook (since the queen would be blocking my only escape square), but he can't pull that either. I'm not really sure waht to do in the bottom with my queen/knight, so at the very least, I can start advancing my other knight and threaten his queen in the process. This is a bit risky, as my knight is not guarded any more.

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:02 am
by Monadology
@Mitsun:

I'm not entirely sure what the rules/etiquette of Malkovich threads are, but as the black player I would at least appreciate it if you spoiler tagged any move suggestions for black (I want to avoid seeing suggestions that could influence my thinking). Thanks!

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:03 pm
by Kirby
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Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:26 pm
by Monadology
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Either this is some brilliant Queen sac, or he just overlooked that I could capture, or this is one final charge because he feels he has lost the game and is just doing what he can to put pressure on me.

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:51 pm
by mitsun
Monadology wrote:@Mitsun:

I'm not entirely sure what the rules/etiquette of Malkovich threads are, but as the black player I would at least appreciate it if you spoiler tagged any move suggestions for black (I want to avoid seeing suggestions that could influence my thinking). Thanks!

Oops, sorry, I meant to /hide/. Thanks Ed for fixing it.

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:24 am
by Kirby
I resign the game. Thanks for playing against me. I was able to see how challenging chess can be :-)

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:47 am
by Monadology
Thanks for the game! I enjoyed it a lot, and you played very well!

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:44 am
by Monadology
It was nice to be able to read through the comments. I totally missed the early check threat W had with the bishop when I took the first pawn. Only one comment puzzled me:

Bill Spight wrote:Wrong again! ;)


Bill, would you mind explaining what I was wrong about? I might be able to figure out why I was wrong if I knew that much, but my only guess is I was wrong about being up another pawn? I don't see a way to get the pawn back for W, so I am clearly missing something if that's the case.

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:46 am
by emeraldemon
I think Bill meant that he was wrong in predicting the next move :)

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:51 am
by Bill Spight
Yes, I meant that I was wrong again. {sigh}

Re: [Malkovich Chess] Kirby vs Krill

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:14 pm
by Monadology
Thanks for clarifying! I was so puzzled, this makes much more sense!