Calling out to DreadedHermie for a game of "stoner chess"

[Weezard]

P x K5 (capture pawn)

QP X P
And there you have it.
The queens have now been formally introduced.
This is going to be a very odd game.

W.

[DreadedHermie]

P x KB5

Goofy looking file @ KB atm, but nothing lasts forever.

[Weezard]

P x KB5

Goofy looking file @ KB atm, but nothing lasts forever.

You chose not to trade queens!:wtf:

Surprised me bigtime.
It would have been to your advantage.
So, I'll ignore your impudent pawn for a moment and give steel to the grand lady.

Q X Q. Check!

You have no choice here.
Your only option is K X Q and that is good for black because once the king moves, he can no longer castle to either side.
And white has lost the first move advantage

Then I'll move QKn - QB3 to cover my remaining center pawn.
And we now each have 1 power piece developed and I still have a center, (albeit isolated for now), pawn.

What's happened in the background is, I've regained some time and the tempo is now even.
Study the last few moves to see how that happened and you will understand a stratagy that most players are unaware of.
They play only to gain space.
You will play to gain space and time.
Your opponents will never know what hit them.:what:

I say this now, because I plan to do it again.
If I pull it off, I'll be 1 full move ahead.
Kind of a "Martian method" for chess.
But this time you will know what I'm after, yah?

I can see that you've done some studyin', my friend.
But, we are going to explore angles here that you will not find in most chess tutorials.
Weeze.

[DreadedHermie]

once the king moves, he can no longer castle to either side.

Crap. Forgot about that one. Oh, well, I'll remember it now.

Now we're even and I'm back playing defense.

I'm sure you'd like do a queenside castle, but you're gonna hafta move that bishop. So I'll protect where you might wanta move to and set up a short pawn chain...

P - K Kn 4

[Weezard]

Crap. Forgot about that one. Oh, well, I'll remember it now.

Now we're even and I'm back playing defense.

Actually, it's a little worse than that, but, could be worster still, could be rainin'

I'm sure you'd like do a queenside castle, but you're gonna hafta move that bishop. So I'll protect where you might wanta move to and set up a short pawn chain...

P - K Kn 4

You really should retract and reconsider that move. brah

There is no "pawn chain" , yet, and IF you did that, I would simply capture that naughty, and unprotected, pawn with the bishop and have black's bishop developed to an excellent square while snapping up a pawn..

That would allow black, a Queen's side castle giving simultaneous check and you would be 2.5 moves behind.


There are better moves...:thumbsup:

Fer instance, moving youre white Bishop to your Q3 would keep my king's pawn from advancing and driving your Knight from an excellent square.


That would have been a wasted move, (moved the knight twice!), that would give black a substantial time advantage.

Black would be about a move and a half ahead of white.

So, I hope you re-consider, because this move is critical. and could lead to an early and undistinguished demise.


Disclaimer:
I could be wrong.


Aloha,
Weezard

[DreadedHermie]

I've got a pawn on KB5 already. (Did that instead of yer queen. ) That's the one your bishop takes, but I take the bishop with the pawn I just moved. It's protecting the one that's already there. Or am I missing something??

I like the B K3 move, though.

[Weezard]

"Disclaimer:
I could be wrong."

See?
I was right

Dunno who spirited away that pawn but it's back now.
The advice still stands, I would advance the center pawn and chase the knight away.

So?

Weeze,

[DreadedHermie]

Weezard, I'm lost. Here's how my board looks, if I move the bishop to Q3. Course, I could be wrong, too.
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[Weezard]

Weezard, I'm lost. Here's how my board looks, if I move the bishop to Q3. Course, I could be wrong, too.
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Good move!
Blocks my pawn advance, and covers your advanced pawn which inhibits my bishop.
Not to mention that you developed another piece.
You have regained the time lead.

Kn - KB3

Threatens your pawn. (That's easy enough to fix),
But also re-news the threat of black's King's pawn advance which would lose a piece for white. by "forking" the knight and bishop with a pawn.
And, it develops a piece for black.

W.

[DreadedHermie]

Kn - KB3

Threatens your pawn.

What pawn? When?

Are you planning 6 moves ahead or suppin'? That pawn looks safe enough for the moment. :question::what: