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- I made a critical mistake and lost my Queen early in a Knight fork
- At this juncture in the game, Black is up by:
- 1 Pawn (8 to 7)
- And the Black Queen to my White Knight (6 points)
- 7 Points total!
- There's no way White can win
- But I have a very good defense. Eg
- The Black Bishop is locked in
- All of the White Pawns are on Black spaces (impervious to attack)
- My White Bishop is really mis-positioned but is protected by my Knight
- For the last two dozen moves, I have moved my King: G1 to G2 ... G2 to G1
- It's a draw
- If I were Black:
- I would have maneuvered the Black Bishop to a position to attack and exchange with the White Bishop
- And then tried to open up the H column
- Kathee out grocery shopping - played a nice game of chess
- As the title indicates, I lost a Rook midway through the game but managed to struggle back
- At the time I lost the Rook, Black had 2 Rooks, White 1 Rook + 2 Knights.
- Two Knights and King played defense while remaining Rook picked away and protected Pawn to Queen advance.
- I didn't need two Queens to win, but sometimes I'm merciless
- I play about 4-5 games of chess a day.
- My win rate is about 20%
- One has to be completely error free against a computer because a computer will never make a mistake
- (one of the joys of playing against the average human, it that they will make a mistake and one can "blow it open")
- The above is an error free game. Tit for Tat
- If I had a Knight ...
- Last game of the day!
- On points, Black was ahead:
- Equal on Pawns (6)
- But Black had 2 Rooks to my 1 Rook & 1 Knight
- Nice protected defense for the White King at A2
- Pawn: G2 to G3
- For whatever reason, perhaps because I am right handed, I most often work the right flank
- Black King unwisely ventured into risk
- White King protected Pawns at F3 and G3
- The key was the Knight at F5
- Enabled Pawn pickup at H6 and then
- Rook advancement to mate
- Note how Black Bishop was hemmed in
- My experience is that:
- A Knight is very valuable in the center zone ... not so much in a corner
- And that a hemmed in Bishop - is near worthless
Below: Two in one day!
- The key was Pawn promotion in column H
- Also: kept Black Bishop off guard by Pawns in White squares
- Note nice use of double Knights - each protecting the other plus dominating the top middle
- King at C4 protected Pawn at B3 and restrained Black Pawn advance
- Key to win was advancing Pawn to Queen promotion
- A common technique: Black bishop negated by White pieces on white spaces
- White Pawn promoted to Queen in column H
- Black King had limited options because of Knight protected F7 & G7
- Also White King protects squares: G5 & G6
- Queen move to A6 checkmated Black
- No winning this one
- Black (the computer) won't make a stupid move
- There is no way that either King can penetrate the scrimmage line
- Note how weak I am on the left side
- Had I not mated on this move ...
- Black would have advanced ranks in columns A, B, C, & D
- Black was up by 4 Pawns (6 to 2)
- His next move would have been F3 to F2 (check)
- My defense would have been to block with the Rook (G7 to G2)
- Then Rook to Rook exchange
- Conservative play
- Cleared column H
- White King advanced in H to drive Black King out of cleared column
- Pawn promoted to Queen
- Invalidated Black Bishop (note White Pawns on light squares
- Knight posted at key protected position
