Any chess players on here?

[Seafront Plodder]

I'm in the middle of a game with Andy at the moment, and it's tediously dull.

Let me re-phrase that: I'm not saying that Andy or our game is dull :o merely the format of up to 10 days for a move. : phew :

Ok that might be lightening by the standards described by MLC in this thread, but I really have to say that I'd prefer real time.

To while away the time waiting for my opponent to move * I sneaked a look at the chess forums. They are full of such gems as :

On move 11, I would have played Nd2. After you moved your pawn to e5, you have cleared the e4 square. It would have been best to occupy e4 with a piece, and Nd2 aims to play Ne4.

On move 16, you played g3. This provided your opponent with the chance to open the h-file which won him the game. If you just let your h and g pawns sit still until he moved his forward, you could have kept both the g and h files closed.
Your g3 pawn is what Nimzovich would have called the objective, a pawn that will be forcibly exchanged with another pawn opening a file.

[SIZE="1"]* Granted he has about eleventeen games on the go at any one time...[/SIZE]



Ho hum...