Interesting Fisher game!

Fisher traps black queen... This game isn't in his 60 memorable games... he claims he saw the trap in a Russian chess magazine... interesting trap... [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Fischer Robert"] [Black "Reshevsky"] [Result "1-0"] 1 e4 c5 2 Ne2 Nc6 3 Nbc3 g6 4 d4 cxd4 5 Nxd4 Bg7 6 Be3 Nf6 7 Bc4 0-0 8 Bb3 Na5 9 e5 Ne8 10 Bxf7 Kxf7 11 Ne6 dxe6 12 Qxd8 Nc6 13 Qd2 Bxe5 14 O-O Nd6 15 Bf4 Nc4 16 Qe2 Bxf4 17 Qxc4 Kg7 18 Ne4 Bc7 19 Nc5 Rf6 20 c3 e5 21 Rad1 Nd8 22 Nd7 Rc6 23 Qh4 Re6 24 Nc5 Rf6 25 Ne4 Rf4 26 Qxe7 Rf7 27 Qa3 Nc6 28 Nd6 Bxd6 29 Rxd6 Bf5 30 b4 Rff8 31 b5 Nd8 32 Rd5 Nf7 33 Rc5 a6 34 b6 Be4 35 Re1 Bc6 36 Rxc6 bxc6 37 b7 Rab8 38 Qxa6 Nd8 39 Rb1 Rf7 40 h3 Rfxb7 41 Rxb7 Rxb7 42 Qa8 1-0

Won my first game!

I won my first game at www.playchess.de I had a way to sac a piece and get it back with oportunities for my oponent to mess up and give me a winning position. I figured at best I would come out even. My opponent ended up blundering stepping into a mate in two. My game annotations can be found at: http://www.playchess.de/games/HCL-B2853-5/annotated/jsobo119

Turn based chess update

Ok... the games I thought I was winning are looking like my advantage could only be very small with best play of my opponents... the game I thought I was loosing... well I think I am doing an ok job of defending... I think I might actually be able to pull out a draw... The one game I was playing in the kings gambit... I am now down a 1 or 2 pawns but I have a lead in development. It will be interesting to see if I can make anything out of it... On the poker front... I think I have learned to minimize my losses well. I have to work on maximizing my wins. I also have to learn to randomize my play and when and how to loosen up my starting hand requirements.

Poker update and Chess

Played holdem at Rob's over the weekend. Only four guys. I doubled up over the first 3 hours but got slowly drained over the next hour and made a very very very very dumb play... the stupid bet large where you will only get folded to or all-in'ed where you know you are beat...except I doubled up on the stupidity and called the all in... I was steaming and blew the rest of my chips on the next hand... I sat out for 20 minutes then jumped back in at him big on the first 3 hands... I came in agressive... with KQ suited for 3x the big blind got 2 callers... then hit 10 J 3 on the flop. I bet 5 x the big blind and got 1 caller. The A on the turn and I bet 5x the big blind again... and the other guy folded. The next hand I raised preflop and bet on the flop with nothing and everyone folded. The next hand I have big slick (not suited) and the flop came out KKJ. I bet and one person stayed in and raised me. next card was junk.. a 3 or a 7 or something... I bet because I was sure that the other guy thought I was bluffing. He raised me again I called. The final card came down A. I bet large.. he called with Q-10. So at that point I was back to even. Over the next couple of hours I went up and down and finished 10 big blinds in the hole. considering I droped 50 bigs earlier... and bought back in ... that is not bad for the nite... I learned my leason. As for turn based chess... I am enjoying it. I think it is a better augmentation to tactical problems. I need to work in some 15 minute to 30 minute chess at least once a week though. So far I am winning one game and in serious trouble in another... the other 5 games I am playing 3 are still in the book opening, 1 is a very very drawish petroff, and one is in the fisher defense to the kings gambit(which is a bit precarious for me but is suppose to be favorable... maybe?).