Chess: Live Blitz game 11

This is another Live Blitz game in which I try out the Scandinavian Defense (1.e4 d5) per a user request. I talk about the Scandinavian some (not a defense I play really), and after some difficulties achieve a solid position and then a drawn Knight vs. Bishop ending. But there was never any real chance to play for a win, and with the spirit of online blitz (read: no delay, no possibility of draw claim) rearing its ugly head I end up losing. Congrats to marreiro (FICS 1445) on winning.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• chess
• pullin
• live
• blitz
• scandinavian

[DuendeDude]

20...g4 looks good. I might be wrong, but it seems to open lines in any case.

[GreenCastleBlock]

What's the idea? As far as I can see, White just takes it.

I never truly got any active play in this game.

[Kphyl]

im sorry, but wat site is this?

I play on Chesscube as a 2000ish player, but wana try this

[GreenCastleBlock]

FICS (freechess-dot-org)

[joyofthehunt]

Glad you've started making vids again

[padperson]

Nice play.

I think your instinct was correct at 5:00 and Nd5 would have been strong.

c4 is no good because you're threatening knight to d3 winning the exchange I think.

[GreenCastleBlock]

I was not very good at all (although I did tie for 1st in my 1st tournament). It was a local scholastic tournament and the openings all fit into one of two categories: 1) Scholar's Mate 2) failed Scholar's Mate

[OliverCheok]

Oh yeah, I'm curious, would you consider yourself good at Chess when you started playing in tournaments and which openings did you use at first?

[ongyj]

Cheap? You're just trying to win. What's cheap about that?

[Rickder19]

Annotate your games AFTER you play them, not while you play them. Holy shit.

[Kphyl]

ta~

[hurikai]

I know exactly what you're saying, I just think it's a dumb argument.

When you're ahead in material, you trade pieces to capitalise on your material advantage. Is that cheap?

[Abnormalized]

Matt, I really appreciate the level of detail you put into your commentary. It's so interesting to hear a good player explain why they are making their moves AS they do it.

Maybe an 8-minute game would give you the extra time you need to pull it all together.

;)