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Oh OK. Yeah I've looked at this several times. There's no way. Earlier I thought it made sense because our bishop guards the square on c1. But he rectifies this easily by playing Rb4+ and Rb1, covering everything. So it doesn't work.
Move of Bg5
Translation: "Sigh, must I play this out another 10 moves before a draw is offered?" Kaspy --->
You've been fine. As the prime driver of this fantastic and exciting game, you probably find it hard to resist making a move without 43 nimrods (or 42 worthy citizens and one nimrod, initials me) weighing in. I would want to move right away every time if I were in your position.
Exactly. And, if I remember my advanced chess rules correctly, he gets to make moves while our king limps down oooooooooooone square at a time.
Heh, not sure about that. Any chess player of his obvious skill (but somewhere below, say, the real Garry Kasparov) would, IMHO, be thoroughly enjoying himself in his position.Translation: "Sigh, must I play this out another 10 moves before a draw is offered?" Kaspy --->
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Love ya as always, JB, but respectfully disagree on offering the draw now. The draw is available whenever we want it. Considering the checks and balances of having at least four or five people commenting regularly here and offering suggestions, added to tim's obvious chess prowess on his own, and I think the chances of a blunder by black enabling a win by white are low.Offer a draw (like I suggested 25 moves ago
This game is going to look like computer vs computer when I load it into lichess. It was a draw from the start and will probably seem like the most boring game evaaaaa.
It was fun though. Let's make him play without a rook's pawn next game IMO
It was half tongue in cheek GB.
https://www.chess.com/analysis-board-editor will load up to like line 72 for me but no further. Had to manually make the moves after that.
Yes. But his failure to do it earlier refutes any notion of his total infallibility. He could actually make a mistake and lose. So I'm saying there's a chance . . .
He didn't see the BEST move. But he also didn't make a move that cost him anything.
I foresaw that response and have already prepared my reply: "Point taken. But seeing the best moves is really the entire ballgame at this stage."
Might I suggest at least a few moments of discussion? Being patient, as you indicated?
Understood. Fantastic job, tim. Congratulations, and please, no need for modesty in response.
A whole bunch of people not as good as you. Well played, sir.
HOLY CRAP! 58 pages! 2300 posts! What have I been up against?!
Modesty on my part is deserved. I want to make this very clear: yes I ran the thing and ultimately decided which moves to make. But in achieving this draw, almost none of the ideas that led to it were mine. In fact, most of my own ideas turned out to be faulty. We really relied on the ideas of Sacramento Bob, Green and Gold, Wilk, and several others. That's how we got as far as we did.
There were a few moments I thought you guys kept me in it, I thought 52. ...Kd7 was odd (instead of f6) but you reloaded and played f6 two moves later. 58. Be7 made sense but you might want to look at Kc8 there, freeing up the c7 square for the Bishop (to defend f4 later) and there might be options around move 69 but I'd have to look at my notes. In the endgame I felt it was more ME not playing absolutely accurately (which the position required) allowing you to continue with some winning chances. I can post my full analysis later, I'm still a bit overwhelmed at this thread! It's going to take me a few hours just to read it all! Plus everything looks different in here, I'm getting hit with notifications, messages, etc. Was I in a time capsule??
When I get a chance later Kaspy I will tell you what our thinking was at the points in the game you listed.
What did I just say? 