I like the site because you sign in with a guest name and then choose your time limit or click on the list of available games and start playing. The strength of the players is usually in the low to medium range.
There does not seem to be a lot of engine users and some players demonstrate bad etiquette by abandoning the game when they are losing. If they do, you receive a notice and the win.
Chat is available, but it’s rarely used. If it is it it’s mostly profanity laced insults that arr quite amusing.
In any case, it’s been a while since I have treated readers to one of my games, so here is one that was played yesterday. I played the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit.
In the gambit white intends (after 1.e4 d5 2.d4) to follow up with f3 intending to obtains a tempo and a half-open f-file in return for a P. White;s hope is that he can achieve rapid development and active posting with a resulting in a quick attack.
The G\gambit was originally named after Armand Blackmar (1820-1888) who was born in Vermon. Along with his brother Henry they invented the gambit.
The brothers owned a music publishing company that was originally based out of New Orleans, Louisiana, and later Augusta, Georgia. The company became the most successful publisher of music of the Confederacy during Civil War. Armand was best known for the patriotic songs he wrote. Bonnie Blue Flag
The gambit is considered aggressive, but its soundness is debatable. Back in the old days (i.e. pre-engine) when we played correspondence chess on post cards there were a few amateurs who specialized in it.
GM Boris Avrukh wrote that the gambit "may not be fully correct" but cautioned that he "was surprised at just how potent white's initiative could become.” For us amateurs it’s worth a try!
Tartajubow–Anonymous1–0D00Chess Hotel G102024Stockfish 16
D00: Blackmar-Diemer Gambit 1.e4 d5 I have run into this defense quite
often online. In my day this was called the Center Counter Defense, but today
it's known as the Scandanavian Defense. The general idea is to prevent white
from controlling the center with Ps and thereby forcing an open game. In my
database white scores very well...44 percent. 2.d4 Preferring to play on my
own turf. dxe4 Of course black cna transpose into the French (2...e6) or the
Car-Kan (2.c6), but that rarely happens. 3.f3 exf3 Black can decline the
gambit with either 3,,,Nf6 or 3...e5 nut I have never had that happen! 4.xf3 f6 5.c4 e6 6.g5 e7 7.c3 c6 8.0-0 One thing about this gambit is that
both sides can usually play routine developing moves with little book
knowledge required. 8.e2 0-0 9.0-0-0 d5 10.xe7 xe7 11.g5 d5 12.h5 Ivanov, O-Panamski,S Sofia 2008. Wgite's attack looks more dangerous than it
is and in the game black (who actually stands slightly better) was able to
score the win. 8...0-0 9.e2 bd7 10.ad1 e8 11.b3 Not bad by any
means, but I played it because I could not think of anything that looked
constructive. Stockfish likes 11.Ne5, but perhaps 11.Bd3 with an eye on h7 was
a better practical choice. d5 12.e4 Hoping to get a N on g5 if black
plays 12...Bxg5 f8 Black is transferring the N to g6 to defend his K, but
the maneuver is too slow. 12...f6! disrupts white's plans. 13.c4 This
drives the N back with a gain of time and maybe prepares the way for d5, f6
This retreat is not the best. 13...xg5 14.fxg5 f5 15.cxd5 fxe4 15...exd5 16.h5 g6 17.h6 xe4 18.xe4 fxe4 with a difficult material
imbalance. Black has a B+N+2Ps vs a R, but the chances are about equal. A
Shootout from this position resulted in white scoring +1 -1 =3. 16.h5 h6 17.f7 b6 18.xh6+ gxh6 19.f7+ h8 20.f6 mates in 3 14.c2 Aiming
at h7, but black has adequate defensive resources against a K-side attack' 14.xf6 xf6 15.e5 g6 16.c2 e7 17.h5 xe5 18.g5 h6 19.xf7 xh2+ 20.xh2 h4 21.e5 White has a decisive advantage. 14...xe4! 15.xe7 xe7 16.xe4 f6 Preventing Ne5 17.fe1 d7 18.h4 The engine says
that 18.c5 remains equal, but I was hoping for a K0side attack. f7 19.f2
Already thinking about a sacrifice on g5, the idea of this move is to get a R
on the potentially open h-file. In reality it's just that...hope b6 20.h1 e5 This attempt to take advantage of the position of white's Q looks reasonable,
nbut iy's not the most active plan. 20...e7 21.h5 h6 and white's plans
are stymied and black has a solid position. 21.dxe5 fxe5 22.g1 This
allows the N to move. g6 In his anxiety to defend against
white's threatened attack. black makes a fatal mistake. For a reason that soon
becomes clear he had to play 22...Rad8 which defends the B. 23.g5 This is
what I.A. Horowitz used to call a scokdoilager, a powerful blow. f4 Black
hopes that exchanging Qs will lessen white's attack, but he has failed to
notice the B on d7 is undefended. 23...e7 This defends the B, but it
doesn't matter. White can win as follows. 24.c5 The Q wants to go to c4 f8 25.c4+ h8 26.xg6 f4 26...hxg6 27.h5 mates. xc5+ 28.xc5 bxc5 29.hxg6+ h3 30.xh3+ g8 31.d7 f1+ 32.xf1 f8+ 33.f7 xf7+ 34.gxf7+ f8 35.h8# 27.e4 h6 28.g3 ff8 and white has won a piece. 24.xf4
Black realized the B on d7 was lost so he resigned. 1–0
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