The 2,000,000th post game

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHS8qAGyhI

FCHamp vs IHeartJustice (UMvC3)

We are still just vessels for them to take and take.

Instructive Chess:

How targeting or not targeting a king can make or break a game.

[WhiteElo "1852"]
[BlackElo "1720"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} g6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 2. e5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bg7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 3. e6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} dxe6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 4. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:5]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 5. Na3 {[%emt 0:0:18]} e4 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 6. Ng5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} e6 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 7. Nxe4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 8. Bb5 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 9. Ng5 {[%emt 0:0:13]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 10. h4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} a6 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 11. Bc4 {[%emt 0:0:20]} Ne5 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 12. Be2 {[%emt 0:0:8]} b6 {[%emt 0:0:19]} 13. d4 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 14. d5 {[%emt 0:0:9]} exd5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 15. Bf4 {[%emt 0:0:30]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 16. Nxe4 {[%emt 0:0:43]} dxe4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 17. Qxd8 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Rxd8 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 18. Bxc7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Rd7 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 19. Bxb6 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Bxb2 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 20. Nc4 {[%emt 0:0:21]} Bxa1 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 21. 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Nd4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 22. Bg4 {[%emt 0:0:11]} Rb7 {[%emt 0:0:30]} 23. Bxc8 {[%emt 0:0:34]} Rxc8 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 24. Nd6 {[%emt 0:0:18]} Rxb6 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 25. Nxc8 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Rb8 {[%emt 0:0:25]} 26. Ne7+ {[%emt 0:0:6]} Kf8 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 27. Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Bb2 {[%emt 0:0:21]} 28. Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Nxc2 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 29. Nd7+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 30. Nxb8 {[%emt 0:0:2]} e3 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 31. fxe3 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Nxe3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 32. Re1 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bd4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 33. Nc6+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} 1-0

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Re:

Instructive Chess:

How targeting or not targeting a king can make or break a game.

[WhiteElo "1852"]
[BlackElo "1720"]
[PlyCount "65"]

Note that White is able to turn around the game after being in the VERY disadvantageous situation found at the beginning of the previous post nearly exclusively because of the White Knight and the decision to focus on the opposing King at every practical opportunity.

By contrast, Black essentially throws the game away by by pawn grabbing and trying to win through sheer majority force when a check or two at the right time, especially in Scan 7, would have effectively set up the positions needed to do just that.

White and Black in chess. In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black". Similarly, the pieces that each conducts are called, respectively, "the white pieces" and "the black pieces".

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga sometime before the 7th century.

Chess players and theorists generally agree that White begins the game with some advantage. Since 1851, compiled statistics support this view; White consistently wins slightly more often than Black, usually scoring between 52 and 56 percent.

The queen can be moved any number of unoccupied squares in a straight line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, thus combining the moves of the rook and bishop. The queen captures by occupying the square on which an enemy piece sits.

64 is a whole square, so that it is as wide as it is long. It happens that it is also THE MOST suitable option for a chess game, because: It is big enough to allow multiple maneuvers and strategical possibilities.

A king can move one square in any direction (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) unless the square is already occupied by a friendly piece or the move would place the king in check.

White scores approximately 55% with the white pieces and many attribute this dominance to the first move privilege. Is it that simple? In chess tournaments, each player gets a color allocation and it usually alternates. The notion of having the “advantage of the white pieces” is well-known.

The 3 Move Checkmate: How to Win Chess In Only 3 Moves
Move Your Pawn from (e2) to (e4). (This is the pawn in front of the King. ...
Your Opponent Counters Your Pawn, Moving Their Pawn to f5. ...
Move Your Queen 2 Spaces Diagonally to f3. ...
Your Opponent Moves Their Pawn to g5.

In friendly games, the checking player customarily says "check" when making a checking move. Announcing "check" is not required under the rules of chess and it is usually not done in formal games.

Wilhelm Steinitz, the first World Champion, widely considered the "father of modern chess," extensively analyzed various double king-pawn openings (beginning 1.e4 e5) in his book The Modern Chess Instructor, published in 1889 and 1895.

Often known as a game for the intellectually gifted, chess is one of the best sports to exercise the brain. ... Promotes brain growth: Games like chess that challenge the brain actually stimulate the growth of dendrites, the bodies that send out signals from the brain's neuron cells.

A study found that intelligence was linked to chess skill for the overall sample, but particularly among young chess players and those at lower levels of skill. ... So the idea is, as you practice more and develop more skills and knowledge about the game, you may be able to circumvent limitations in cognitive ability."