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HoMM was created from chess( only the battle part nothing else)

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Last time I played a local tournament, there was this annoying guy who thought 32 minutes on 18th move, and after 27 mins of him thinking about his 19th, I resigned. I haven't played a game since then. I guess that even though I got really good over the years, I just lack patience for those kind of mindplay lol.

And I suck at blitz, too...

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Vindicator said:

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Thought of you, Ofhorf. I was all like, "He played Nd7? Well then I can just sack on e6..."

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OhforfSake said:

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That was awesome, thank you very much for sharing it!

continues (sac time):

continues, ending the game:

And black queens has no where to go, hence the resignation I presume.
So I take it you're this ChessGlue guy?

I gotta admit I do like to play black's opening when I'm in the mood "come at me bro", because it allows for a knight on f8 while having a bishop on g7, but I always find my white squared bishop troublesome. While I like to keep pieces for potential importance later in the game (or at least limits what my opponent can safely do), I think bishop g4 to pin the knight and later trade it off if say.. h3 was played, would probably be my choice before Nd7.

(Moving the bishop to h4 would be a classic mistake)

However moving the bishop to d7 is interesting, because potentially, if white castles king side, black can play queen to f8 and possibly sac with Bxh3.

(This position is advantageous for white (20, or so, moves ahead), but not different than what it was before Bxh3)).

(I believe Qd2 is a typical move, to get a bishop to h6, but it also means now only the g2 pawn guards the knight on f3. But the g2 pawn is also the only defender of the h3 pawn. Hence it's a target for overloading the white defense).

But I dislike black is forced to play e6 after having played g6 previously in the game, as it weakens the square on f6 (in my opinion). Just imagine white getting a pawn on e5 and a knight f6, potentially followed by a pawn on f6/knight stays at f6 and a queen on h6 while black has castled king side..

But I took the liberty to analyze the position with the computer (20 moves ahead, if you dislike this kind of stuff I suggest you stop reading now, but I've tried to make it easier for the eyes by adding animation.. however drunken they may appear), and my own choice, Bg4, is not a good choice because then white can win a pawn by playing Bxf7+, Kxf7, Ng5+ (out of the pin), and after black moves his king, white queen takes the bishop on g4 which was pinning the knight.



But thinking back, I think there's an old rule about don't pin the queen with an unguarded bishop and/or unguarded e5 (for black) / e4 (for white) square, while you've an uncastled king and your opponent has a bishop that threatens f7 (for black) / f2 (for white).

I feel very uncomfortable playing Nf6, in the position where your opponent played Nd7, because I dislike the pressure a pawn e5 push presents, but according to the computer it's a safe move (and 100% in the computers opening book). It seems to work because the knight itself puts pressure on e4 (a pawn I usually don't like to take, because the potential pressure a rook on e1 can put on an uncastled king after opening op the e-file prematurely, but in this position it works for black)

also it has the squares g4 and d5 (if white plays Qe2 to guard e4)

whereas if white knight guards the e4 pawn, Nxe4 followed by white knight takes on e4 and black plays d5 forking the knight on e4 and the bishop on f4.

Finally, an immediate pawn push to e5 loses white the e5 pawn if he decides to recapture with his d pawn after black captures with his own d pawn due to Ng4 and the e4 and f2 pawns are forked.

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So I take it you're this ChessGlue guy?

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I gotta admit I do like to play black's opening when I'm in the mood "come at me bro", because it allows for a knight on f8 while having a bishop on g7, but I always find my white squared bishop troublesome. While I like to keep pieces for potential importance later in the game (or at least limits what my opponent can safely do), I think bishop g4 to pin the knight and later trade it off if say.. h3 was played, would probably be my choice before Nd7.

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whereas if white knight guards the e4 pawn, Nxe4 followed by white knight takes on e4 and black plays d5 forking the knight on e4 and the bishop on f4.

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Nd7 is indeed a big mistake. If you'd played Bxf7+ right away, this continuation would have followed:

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It was possible to sac at e6 right away, but once the knight takes on c7+, the queens pressure on e4 equalizes the game, if the knight takes the rook (hence N3d5, while a very interesting move, is a mistake, after Qxe4+, Be3, black can play Ne7, which leads to trouble for white)

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But in the earlier sac on e6, white can play Nc3, and if Kxc7, then Nd5+ follows, winning the queen. In stead black plays Rg8 and white gets a huge pressure.

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An interesting alternative to Nxc7+ in your game would be Nd5 (the move you played a bit later, funny how the order in which moves are played makes for a huge difference), if black plays Qxe6, Nxc7+ would now be forking the king, the queen and the rook (I guess you could say that the knight gets around ), which black of course doesn't do (according to the computer though, it barely makes a difference to save the queen in this position), but what it does is that it prevents any counter attacks from black, from what I can tell.

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I let the computer spend some ~5 hours on the 3 options for the queen, queen takes knight, or queen goes to one of the two safe spots, and the positions are 25 moves ahead.

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