There will be tournament action, causal chess and lessons if that is what you want. Make a New Year's resolution to do your brain and your social calendar a favor and get to LCCC on Mondays.
But if you would like some chess action and a tactics lesson, show up tonight (this Thursday) at the Cromaine Library in downtown Hartland. This will run from 6:30 to 8pm. Its a kid's event but there are some chess playing parents there also.
Here is an on line rapid game that had some missed opportunities due to time pressure. Notes by Igor3000:
1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Qxd5
3. Nf3 Nf6
4. d4 Bf5
5. c4 Qd8
6. Nc3 e6
7. Bd3 Bxd3
8. Qxd3 Be7
Black has a cramped position. White is up a positional pawn (+1).
9. O-O O-O
10. Bf4 c5
11. Rad1 cxd4
12. Nxd4 Nc6
13. Nxc6 bxc6
14. Qxd8 Rfxd8
15. b3? Bb4
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| White to make move 16. |
White has been drifting with no real plan and is throwing away his positional advantage. Better was 15. Bc7, Rdc8 16. Be5, Rd8 and White will still hold a (+.5) lead instead of the EVEN game White has now. Both players blunder as their clocks are running low.
16. Be5?? .........
Losing material with 16. .....Ng4! 17. a3, Ba5 18. b4, Nxe5 19. bxa5, Nxc4 20. Ne4, Nxa3 and White has a bad position also (-2.1).
16. .......... Nd7??
Black returns the favor with a blunder of his own. Black threatens to win material with Nd7xe5 but misses his real opportunity as shown in the last paragraph. White now swings the game back in his favor (+.7).
17. Bc7 Bxc3?
The fatal blunder for Black. 17. ......Re8 and Black is still in the game. Instead (+2.3)
18. Bxd8+ Rxd8
19. Rd3 Bf6? (+3.8)
20. Rfd1 Kf8
21. Rxd7 Rxd7
22. Rxd7 a5
23. Rc7 Resigns
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