Game 12: Kevin Bonham v ggrayggray (0-1)

[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.g3 h5 6.d3 h4 7.gxh4 Ng4 8.c3 Nc6

[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

So Kevin, as it has turned out, it appears that I was the one to 'blink first' in both games. Of course, whether this blinking or not was profitable remains to be seen.

[Garvinator]

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.g3 h5 6.d3 h4 7.gxh4 Ng4 8.c3 Nc6 9.Qa4 Bd7

[Kevin Bonham]

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[Garvinator]

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.g3 h5 6.d3 h4 7.gxh4 Ng4 8.c3 Nc6 9.Qa4 Bd7 10.Qd4 Nxd4

[Desmond]

[Kevin Bonham]

Whoops! Catastrophic clerical error; for some completely unknown reason I had entered in ...c6 not ...Nc6 as your 8th move and was wondering why I had such an excellent position already.

This sort of thing is an occupational hazard of being me. Can I get a computer to help me with reading as well as chess?

Maybe I should cut and paste the position each move in future!

0-1.

[Basil]

Ditto (re: the entering). For me, compounded by playing too many games at once, on more than one computer, not respecting the game at hand sufficiently. Result: Exactly what I deserved = fatolla zero.

[Garvinator]

Whoops! Catastrophic clerical error; for some completely unknown reason I had entered in ...c6 not ...Nc6 as your 8th move and was wondering why I had such an excellent position already.

This sort of thing is an occupational hazard of being me. Can I get a computer to help me with reading as well as chess?

Maybe I should cut and paste the position each move in future!

0-1.

Something I do is keep a computer database in fritz of each game. Then when a new move is made, I just update the database. Means each time all I have to do is a couple of clicks and the new position appears

[Aaron Guthrie]

Or you can use the pgn viewer to check the position.

[Kevin Bonham]

Something I do is keep a computer database in fritz of each game. Then when a new move is made, I just update the database. Means each time all I have to do is a couple of clicks and the new position appears

Yes, this is what I have been doing, but it doesn't help if you enter a move wrongly and fail to notice you have done so! Using the viewer to check as Mangafranga suggests is probably best.

[Kevin Bonham]

Lame excuse: the fatal misreading was made on a day on which I had worked twelve and a half hours.

Why this excuse is lame: anyone with any functioning brain cells would have gone directly to bed instead of trying to play chess games under such circumstances.

[Kevin Bonham]

Actually this may have been not a copying error but simply a case of failing to promote the move actually played to the main line in my analysis before saving, and then forgetting I had not done so. My saved copy of the game has 8...Nc6 9.Qa4 Bd7 10.Qe4+ (etc) saved as a sideline with 8...c6 9.Qa4 as its main line.