White Black
Glee Treis
White Black
Glee Treis
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Glee Treis
I’d just like to point out that I might not be very good at chess, but I am very good at recognizing when I am screwed. See post 54 for proof. 
White Black
Glee Treis
White Black
Glee Treis
White Black
Glee Treis
White Black
Glee Treis
glee, I am going to leave it up to you if you want to continue or not. I am going to be down at least two pieces, and am thoroughly beaten. My only chance is a massive blunder by you, and there is little satisfaction in that.
I appreciate the offer, but really it’s up to you.
I enjoy learning stuff on the SDMB and am happy to be an expert in my little area.
If you feel you will learn anything by continuing, feel free to do so.
I would indeed expect to win easily from this position.
Whenever we stop, I’ll happily discuss the game.
White Black
Glee Treis
I’ll go ahead and resign then. I’ll post my thoughts later because I have to run to a midterm, but the obvious mistake was h7-h6 instead of preparing to castle.
:smack:
I have developed the habit of playing all games out on an actual board for just this reason. I play the vast majority of my games against the computer and I always set up a board IRL and make my moves there first.
I have also developed the habit of writing down all the moves and I write my moves before I make them. Doing that has helped me cut down on blunders and obvious errors. People give me a hard time for writing down my moves, but I’ve won a lot more games and I haven’t lost a single game to :smack: type mistakes.
I eagerly await commentary on the game. I haven’t been home yet to play it out on a board and I missed 90% of what happened over the weekend, but it’s interesting to hear what players are thinking as they’re making their moves and then seeing how those plans work or fall apart.
I’ll post a commentary in this thread soon.
I’ll also answer questions about ‘what if that move was played?’ etc.
SixSwords,
in over-the-board chess, you’re not allowed now to write your moves before making them. (I think it counts as analysis…)
Thanks for the game.
I’ll go into detail soon, but certainly castling was better than h7-h6!
I can honestly say that I’d never heard that before. Of course, I’ve never played in any type of ‘official’ game.
Two questions:
At what level of play does this rule apply? If a tournament is “Touch Piece” for example, would you expect that you cannot write your moves down?
Also, is it that you can’t write your moves before you make them, or that you can’t write your moves at all?
IANAChess expert (by event the remotest and most generous definition), but I’m quite sure that I’ve read that writing down moves after you make them is not only allowed, but recommended. I’ve also watched some chess, and they appear to write down their moves.
Writing down moves is necessary in case:
There are probably other situations that I can’t think of now.
Any form of organised/rated chess is governed by the rules of the World Chess Federation. (I think the US Federation does make a few exceptions…)
The rule is that you can’t write your move **before ** you make it.
You are required to write it afterwards.
The rules of chess say:
touch-move
4.2 Provided that he first expresses his intention (e.g. by saying "jadoube" or "I adjust"), the player having the move may adjust one or more pieces on their squares. 4.3 Except as provided in Article 4.2, if the player having the move deliberately touches on the chessboard one or more of his own pieces, he must move the first piece touched that can be moved, or one or more of his opponents pieces, he must capture the first piece touched, which can be captured …
keeping score
8.1 In the course of play each player is required to record his own moves and those of his opponent in the correct manner, move after move, as clearly and legibly as possible…It is forbidden to write the moves in advance, unless the player is claiming a draw according to Article 9.2 or 9.3.
All your examples are correct. However the biggie is claiming a win on time (using chess clocks0.
You know, maybe I’ll just stop.