Chess

[Dak]

DLed the app - then emails start working of course.

nfcow is good competition, although my standards are all out of whack from only playing my son in the last 4 years. My only playing experience in the last decade other than that was a guy who could only excel against me at speed chess. Without a clock he would always lose to my head games. I'm terrible at speed chess/don't enjoy it. I'm not big on this async thing but it beats a clock.

 

[no country for old wainds]

haha. i generally play tournaments where you both have half an hour on the clock, and that suits me just fine. i did however do a three minute one recently and absolutely sucked balls (then again, this tournament contained a bunch of vastly superior players including a guy who has a draw with nigel short on his record, so i didn't stand a fucking chance). i've played a few one minute games on chess.com, it's just chaos lol

 

[Dak]

I've been tempted to resign every turn since you moved Rf8. Good game, I played much too conservatively.

 

[no country for old wainds]

gg dude, feel free to challenge me to a rematch anytime!

 

[Dak]

gg dude, feel free to challenge me to a rematch anytime!

I figured I'd need to play at least one game to identify the weakest aspect my game currently. I need to do some puzzle work before playing again because without it we would either have another game like that or I'd be aggressive and leave myself open.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i think you lost that game around moves 6-9 tbh, you were already two pawns down by then. i reckon you would've avoided the subsequent problems if you'd just taken my pawn with your knight on move 6 instead of moving the other knight.

 

[Dak]

Yeah that's what I meant re: too conservative. I don't really count pawns too carefully but I gave up control of the center.