Kenilworth Kibitzer

Later this weekend I'll post an analysis of a game I played at last year's US Amateur Team East.  It was a game where I had Black against a master who needed to win to bring his team a win in the match, and though I came under heavy pressure I managed to walk away with a draw.  This game to me was a sign that convinced me that I was on the road to improvement (in contrast to say last night's steaming turd loss to Mike Wojcio which is like a Wrong Way sign).  I thought I'd toss out memorable games as a topic for the assembled readership - please post some, it can help push John's exegesis on spam further down.  

I found out why my Chess Coroner blog is locked. Blogger's bots think it's a spam blog. Click the images to enlarge & read.







P.S. - For under 40 crowd, the title refers to this Monty Python skit :

While I was attemping to publish Chess Coroner post #526, my blog was locked for a possible terms of service violation. Until that lock is lifted, I will be posting here.

Don was kind enough to pass on a game he played last week against Max in the summer tournament.  Sitting at the adjacent board I quickly became fascinated with this tense game, and the analysis afterward was not easy, even with resident NM Mark Kernighan doing color commentary.   Don came up short defending against the Isolated Queen's Pawn, and it's interesting to see how quickly things turned against him from a mostly level position.  Mostly human commentary here, but I'll let the computer jump in for the tactical strikes.