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I've returned to Chesstalk after a bit of an absence. Is there a way anymore of building a game viewer into posts? For example, is there some setting that I could have set so that I could have played Henri's game above within my Chesstalk window? Thanks in advance for any insights. My browser is Chrome, running unfortunately (lol) on the "latest and greatest" Windows 10 OS.
I've returned to Chesstalk after a bit of an absence. Is there a way anymore of building a game viewer into posts? For example, is there some setting that I could have set so that I could have played Henri's game above within my Chesstalk window? Thanks in advance for any insights. My browser is Chrome, running unfortunately (lol) on the "latest and greatest" Windows 10 OS.
I agree arts I wish that was possible :/maybe something for the future!!
thought I would keep this thread going with some more games
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2019.07.20"]
[Round "?"]
[White "aquiles88"]
[Black "henricum"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "1876"]
[BlackElo "1947"]
[TimeControl "600+2"]
[EndTime "10:02:08 PDT"]
[Termination "henricum won by resignation"]
Your chess.com ID changed and your rating improved from 1300 to 1900 in the past year.What happened?
this past year ive been teaching my younger sister and she has been using my past account alot which I realized I should really be doing as thats considered sandbagging so closed that account made myself one and made my sister one on chess kid
ill be posting all my games from the NOCC this weekend
Mitchell bruce vs Henry Hughes
1.e4Nc6 2.d4d5 3.e5Bf5 4.c3e6 5.Nf3f6 6.Bf4Be7 7.Nbd2g5 8.exf6Bxf6 9.Bg3Nge710.Bb5a6 11.Ba4b5 12.Bc2h5 13.Nb3h4 14.Be5Bxe5 15.Nxe5Nxe5 16.dxe5Bxc2 17.Qxc2Qd7 18.Nd4c5 19.Nb3Qc7 20.Qe2Ng6 21.O-OO-O-O 22.Qg4Qe7 23.Rfe1Nf4 24.Qf3Rdf825.Qe3h3 26.Qxc5+Qxc5 27.Nxc5hxg2 28.f3Rh3 29.Kf2Rxh2 30.Kg3Rfh8 31.Kf2g1=Q+32.Kxg1Rg2+ 33.Kf1Rh1# 0-1
what do you guys think of the dutch defence? of course there is the main line but its very flexible on the white side of things and I feel like everyone I play has a different set up.
I am a class player (CFC Standard 1619). I play the Dutch Defence.
At my level, the Dutch is advantageous - many class players do not know it very well because they have to play against it so seldom. So I find my opponents putting pieces on long-term wrong squares, which gives me over time an incremental and growing advantage.
That being said, I don't know what my percentage record is with the Dutch in 2019 so far......but I would bet it is above 50%, where I generally this year with Black am scoring slightly below 50%.
I am a class player (CFC Standard 1619). I play the Dutch Defence.
At my level, the Dutch is advantageous - many class players do not know it very well because they have to play against it so seldom. So I find my opponents putting pieces on long-term wrong squares, which gives me over time an incremental and growing advantage.
That being said, I don't know what my percentage record is with the Dutch in 2019 so far......but I would bet it is above 50%, where I generally this year with Black am scoring slightly below 50%.
Bob A
That's an interesting post. I wonder what 2000-2200 players would say. I hope more Dutch "users" reply.
I am a class player (CFC Standard 1619). I play the Dutch Defence.
At my level, the Dutch is advantageous - many class players do not know it very well because they have to play against it so seldom. So I find my opponents putting pieces on long-term wrong squares, which gives me over time an incremental and growing advantage.
That being said, I don't know what my percentage record is with the Dutch in 2019 so far......but I would bet it is above 50%, where I generally this year with Black am scoring slightly below 50%.
Bob A
hey bob,
I agree I am a dutch player because I feel like it takes a certain amount of nerve to push that f-pawn early in the game. so it can be hard to find those who actually know to employ the dutch.
the first time I saw the dutch was at the 2018 Canadian open when my opponent played it against my English. was my only win of the tournament so I thought there had to be something that could be improved.
then, just this past year I started to use it a lot after I go board of the grünfeld defence. I've also witnessed Hikaru Nakamura deploy the dutch against Jeffery Xiong to win the US chess championships https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-to...ip-2019/11/1/1
link to the game here.
it also makes me wonder, is the bird worth playing? I've only ever played it once in a rapid tournament as a reversed Leningrad which ended pretty calmly.
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