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Your humility is greater than mine. People who know me know that a day does not go by with me shouting my humbleness from the rooftops!
The first game though...
But don't worry, that's so incredibly difficult to find, especially if you have less than 20 minutes because you really need to take some time off first and then try to assess the position again!
Why am I so bad?!
Jun 11, 2020
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#7
Kai_boy wrote:
Why am I so bad?!
wow was that a pre move
Looks more like a mouse slip.
BryanCFB wrote:
Kai_boy wrote:
Why am I so bad?!
wow was that a pre move
Looks more like a mouse slip.
I was just testing the limits of mirroring your opponent.
Jun 11, 2020
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#10
MSC157 wrote:
The first game though...
But don't worry, that's so incredibly difficult to find, especially if you have less than 20 minutes because you really need to take some time off first and then try to assess the position again!
Thanks MSC. Despite claiming it was a draw when I showed the game above I was never entirely sure it was a draw, from the time I was playing the game until I posted the game.
During the game I was looking to see if I could force my opponent to allow me to block a check with my rook, thus eliminating the stalemate and leaving me with a winning material advantage. Well I guess I was right that I couldn't do that but I never saw the Rxh6+ Kg5 Kxg7 Nf5+! idea. I just didn't look hard enough during the game or any time I analyzed it since. And even almost 27 years later I still don't know if I would have found it as long term calculating is not a strength of mine.
Jun 11, 2020
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#11
Here is a more comprehensive and ever so slightly edited version of MSC157's analysis in comment #4.
updated 9/5/2023
My opponent made a lot of blunders... but then I forgot to take a free queen😱
Jun 12, 2020
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#14
Kai_boy wrote:
My opponent made a lot of blunders... but then I forgot to take a free queen😱
Well it certainly didn't hurt you in this game.
I once had a game where I could have won a piece for seven straight moves (not a capture of a hanging piece but the result of a short combination of moves). I forget if I won the piece on my eighth chance, if my opponent removed the threat just in time or if I even saw the threat after my seventh failed attempt or not until analyzing the game.
And I believe the game was even in material, unlike yours, so I would have benefited tremendously from winning the piece. After all this though I did eventually win a piece and go on to win the game. I think it lasted 33 moves.
Jun 12, 2020
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#16
BryanCFB wrote:
Kai_boy wrote:
My opponent made a lot of blunders... but then I forgot to take a free queen😱
Well it certainly didn't hurt you in this game.
I once had a game where I could have won a piece for seven straight moves (not a capture of a hanging piece but the result of a short combination of moves). I forget if I won the piece on my eighth chance, if my opponent removed the threat just in time or if I even saw the threat after my seventh failed attempt or not until analyzing the game.
And I believe the game was even in material, unlike yours, so I would have benefited tremendously from winning the piece. After all this though I did eventually win a piece and go on to win the game. I think it lasted 33 moves.
After giving it more thought it might have been a simple capture that I missed for seven straight moves! And I might have only been winning an exchange, not a piece.
Kai_boy wrote:
Why am I so bad?!
Jun 13, 2020
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#20
the funnest game I ever played! can you grok the intention here? [Event "bishopsmiter vs. Aidan291211"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2020-06-14"] [White "bishopsmiter"] [Black "Aidan291211"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "1136"] [BlackElo "624"] [TimeControl "standard"] [Termination "Game drawn by agreement"] 1. h3 d5 2. g4 e5 3. d4 exd4 4. f4 d3 5. e4 d4 6. Nc3 c6 7. Nd5 cxd5 8. e5 g5 9. h4 b5 10. h5 f5 11. Nf3 a5 12. Nh4 gxh4 13. c4 Be7 14. b4 Bg5 15. fxg5 Na6 16. a4 Nc5 17. bxc5 b4 18. e6 b3 19. Bd2 b2 20. Bb4 axb4 21. Rg1 Nf6 22. c6 b1=Q 23. a5 h6 24. a6 h3 25. Rg3 h2 26. Kf2 Nd7 27. Qa4 Ne5 28. Kg2 Ng6 29. hxg6 d2 30. a7 Rb8 31. a8=Q d1=Q 32. Rga3 h1=Q+ 33. Kg3 Qdc1 34. g7 d3 35. c7+ Bd7 36. c8=Q d2 37. g6 d1=Q 38. c5 Qg1+ 39. Kh3 Ke7 40. c6 Kd6 41. e7 f4 42. e8=Q f3 43. Ba6 f2 44. c7 Bxg4+ 45. Qxg4 h5 46. Qg2 f1=Q 47. Kg3 Qc6 48. c8=Q Qdc1 49. Qe2 Qgc5 50. Qef2 Qfd3+ 51. Qgf3 h4+ 52. Kg4 h3 53. g8=Q h2 54. g7 Rh7 55. Qgf7 h1=Q 56. g8=Q Qdxa6 57. Qcf5 d4 58. Qgg5 d3 59. Qa5 d2 60. Qa4 d1=Q 61. Qa5 Qbd3 62. Qa4 b3 63. Qa5 b2 64. Qa4 b1=Q 65. Q7xh7 Qxa1 66. Qxb8+ Qxb8 67. Rxa1 Qxa1 68. Qxa1 Qdxa1 69. Qfxh1 Qe2+ 70. Qxe2 Qcxh1 71. Qb1 Qaxb1 72. Qxh1 Qab7 73. Qxb7 Q8xb7 74. Qxc5+ Kxc5 75. Qe1 Q7b2 76. Qxb1 Qxb1 1/2-1/2
The world is crazy these days. We need a few good laughs. This forum is for posting your egregious blunders, not your opponent's. Either full games or positions where horrific blunders occurred are fine. Those are awful blunders which turn wins into losses or draws as well as those that turn draws into losses.