The 2,000,000th post game

Single Game Chess Page (Tutorial/Breakdown)
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I noticed in recording one of my recent games that I had nearly exactly 20 scans for the 10 or so moves that comprise it. So, why NOT use the natural format of this thread to do a tailor-made instructional?

This assumes that people know at least the moves and rules of Chess.

For those that don't, here's a link to page 50402 where that info is given.

Here's a link for further supplemental info: http://chesslessons4beginners.com/rules/lesson_1_board_and_pieces.htm#contenu

... and now let's get started.

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I am playing as White in this game, and it is algebraically notated (recorded) by chess base.com. If you look at the board, you'll see it has the letters A through H going from left to right, and the numbers 1 through 8 going upwards.
This gives each square on the chessboard a name, and so most moves can be described by simply saying what piece goes to a specific square, like a8, g7, c6, and so on. Use the scans here as a guide for subsequent posts:

My first move can be described in several ways:

"pawn to king 4"
"p-K4"
"e4"

... and so on.

It's probably the most common opening move in all of Chess.

Below, and off to the right side, you'll see that given as "1. e4"

Whatever method used, this all simply translates into my moving the pawn in front of my king forward 2 spaces. Recall that, ON THEIR FIRST TURN ONLY, any single pawn can move 2 spaces forward.

Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Thank you, that DID help.

Man.

Just spent a few minutes watching some of what's posted on her ...

Almost hard to believe any person consistently has the energy she does.

After I post this as a random memory saver, I might just check out what she EATS in a day; there's gotta be a secret in that diet SOMEWHERE ...

👆

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Continuing:

My opponent follows suit, and moves the pawn in front of HIS king, the Black king, forward 2 spaces for ITS first move, as all pawns are able to do:

In some old classic books, this is ALSO apparently described as "pawn to King 4".

The book I originally learned chess from was saner, and described it as "pawn to King 5, maintaining White's perspective, even on Black's moves, to cut down on confusion.

Algebraic notation has this as e5.

I've had my first turn.
My opponent has had HIS first turn.

So the game records this as

1. e4 e5

... as you can see in the scan above.

White taking his turn, then Black taking his turn, is how a single "move" in Chess is recorded.

Now I make my 2nd move.

I move the pawn in front of my light-square bishop, White's "King" bishop, forward 2 spaces. This is called "pawn to King bishop 4".
Or, since we're using algebraic notation "f4".

For the remainder of these entries, note, I plan to use only the Algebraic terminology.

My second move above is not really "just" any random 2nd move, by the way.

It actually has a name.

Done in the exact sequence you just saw, it's called the "King's Gambit".

You can follow a link to Wikipedia right here if you want to explore that subtopics in greater depth.

I can't get enough feedback quickly enough to know if this format is effective.
Seems longish to me and I don't know if a beginner will find it confusing or just right ...

Going to abort the page-of-moves format for the present.

Just not disciplined enough tonight to get it done.

In the meantime I'll post a DIFFERENT game, one that caused my opponent to analyze the moves after I won.

Probably the first time he saw the Latvian Gambit ...

[WhiteElo "1700"]
[BlackElo "1748"]
[PlyCount "28"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:4]} f5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 3. exf5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 4. Bd3 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Bxf2+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 5. Kxf2 {[%emt 0:0:2]} d6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 6. Re1 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 7. Be2 {[%emt 0:0:37]} Bxf5 {[%emt 0:0:22]} 8. d4 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Nbd7 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 9. Bb5 {[%emt 0:0:17]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 10. Bc4 {[%emt 0:0:1]} d5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 11. dxe5 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Ng4+ {[%emt 0:0:20]} 12. Kg1 {[%emt 0:0:34]} dxc4 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 13. Bg5 {[%emt 0:1:2]} Qb6+ {[%emt 0:0:9]} 14. Kh1 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Nf2+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} 0-1

In 1941, Ludek Pachman (1924-2003) was arrested by the Gestapo and interrogated for several weeks about incitement to anti-German demonstrations.

On October 2, 1941, chess master Karel Treybal was charged will illegal possession of a firearm (a pistol) by the Nazis and condemned to death. He was executed the same day in Prague.

In the 1940s, a tournament director of the U.S. Championship had his car stolen during the tournament. The car was recovered a day later.

In 1943, Austrian master Ladslaus Dory was arrested for sedition by the Nazis and sentenced to death. He was released from prison by allied troops in 1945.

In 1943, Akiba (Akiva) Rubinstein’s (1882-1961) son, Samy Rubinsten (1927-2002), also a chess player, was arrested by the Germans after hiding in a castle in the Ardennes, and spent a year in prison.

In 1948, grandmaster David Bronstein (1924-2006) survived an assassination attack during the first chess Interzonal in Saltsjobaden, Sweden. On the last day, Bronstein was playing Tartakower when, suddenly, a Lithuanian made a lunge at Bronstein to kill him. Several spectators grabbed the would-be assassin. The attempted killer wanted to murder a Russian because he claimed the Russians were responsible for sending his sister to Siberia and murdering her.

In 1950, Walter Bjornson of Vancouver was cut with a knife by his opponent during a chess game, leaving a 4 inch gash in his forearm. His opponent, attacked Walter after losing a game and was later arrested.

In 1951, James Bolton, age 22, the New England chess champion, was arrested by the FBI for evading the draft.

In March 1952, Pal Benko was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months in a Hungarian concentration camp for trying to escape from East Berlin and defect to the West. He was accused of being an American spy. When they searched his apartment, they found mail devoted to his postal chess games. The police assumed that the notation was secret code, and they demanded to know how to break the code.

In 1952, famous bank robber Willie Sutton (1901-1980) was arrested by the FBI. At the time, Sutton was reading How to Think Ahead in Chess by I.A. Horowitz.

In 1957, two Poles, Alexander Piotrowski and Kazimierz Osiecki, were arrested for assault after they both got into a fight over a chess game, resulting in both players going to the hospital. The charges were later dismissed.

In 1959, a Soviet scientist killed another Soviet scientist at a Soviet research station in Vostok, Antarctica after a chess game argument. The losing player got so mad, he killed his opponent with an axe. After the incident, the Soviets banned chess at their Antarctic stations.

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