More than 25 years ago my chess teacher told me to study a book with the title "From strategy to tactic". He said: "You have a good feeling for the global setting, but once you found to have the better plan, you are ignorant enough to get bored and finally fail to make it to the end." Seems that the situation has no changed so much:
Maybe already after 10.j15 but at least after 15.m13 everything was more or less forced until 26.e5. White had the better plan but failed to make it to the end by just putting 27.g8.
I felt I lost once you revealed what 7.h15 was for. I'm not experienced enough to have a good opening game and my 8.h19 and 10.j15 sequence was a blunder. From that point on, I was scrambling, just hoping for a mistake from white.
One comment: it sure seems to me that you conceded the right too early. My linked peg at 010 is still 9 rows away from the eastern goal, and your position at P14 would have aided a defense. Maybe a superior player couldn't be stopped, but if the tables were turned, I would have made black earn it. Perhaps you were upset at having lost the advantage in the upper left corner and resigned out of frustration? I don't know, but I've had a few games where you upper tier players have let me off the hook too easily.
I should have lost this game.
On
2012-05-18 at 10:30,
Mirko Rahn
said:
I don't think there is a chance for White. Can you suggest a move for White that is not easily proven to be wrong?
On
2012-05-18 at 13:49,
yibyab
said:
Probably not.
On
2012-05-18 at 13:56,
yibyab
said:
There's probably a valid attack on a 33.r10 defense, but it's all the immediate ones I can think of fail. 34.q12 maybe, but then there's still some tangling that might result in a successful block if white errs.
Even against one of you 2000+ competitors, I still tend not to concede until you're within 7 spots of your goal, assuming there are no other supporting structures. That's just me. Even if it may seem hopeless. I don't necessarily assume my opponent is going to know the right attack, especially if there might be an enticing error he could make. Once you placed 25.e9, for instance, the game was basically over and I could have resigned. I chose to make one last gasp stand and was lucky enough to get an opening.
Maybe it's not as glorious but that's the nature of all games.
Maybe already after 10.j15 but at least after 15.m13 everything was more or less forced until 26.e5. White had the better plan but failed to make it to the end by just putting 27.g8.
27.g8 28.g4 29.i7 30.j5 31.j4
27.g8 28.h6 29.f6 30.f3 31.d5 32.b3 33.f2
27.g8 28.h4 29.e4
Or what do I ignore?
I felt I lost once you revealed what 7.h15 was for. I'm not experienced enough to have a good opening game and my 8.h19 and 10.j15 sequence was a blunder. From that point on, I was scrambling, just hoping for a mistake from white.
One comment: it sure seems to me that you conceded the right too early. My linked peg at 010 is still 9 rows away from the eastern goal, and your position at P14 would have aided a defense. Maybe a superior player couldn't be stopped, but if the tables were turned, I would have made black earn it. Perhaps you were upset at having lost the advantage in the upper left corner and resigned out of frustration? I don't know, but I've had a few games where you upper tier players have let me off the hook too easily.
I should have lost this game.
Even against one of you 2000+ competitors, I still tend not to concede until you're within 7 spots of your goal, assuming there are no other supporting structures. That's just me. Even if it may seem hopeless. I don't necessarily assume my opponent is going to know the right attack, especially if there might be an enticing error he could make. Once you placed 25.e9, for instance, the game was basically over and I could have resigned. I chose to make one last gasp stand and was lucky enough to get an opening.
Maybe it's not as glorious but that's the nature of all games.
Oh well.