Blitz Chess Tournament #21 (3|0)

and we're just in time barely and i'm very happy to say that mr spinal tap is in there very nice i see a lot of uh yeah most of you are saying that the color is purple that's how i see it okay so we have mr spinal tap round one opponent this hourly super blitz was the last time we played 3-2 what was that at uh it's a marathon no not a marathon all right we'll exchange dark square bishops just going to go in for it voluntarily no i want to be a pest so bishop takes now if i take with the queen there's this kind of nonsense so let's let's get a center and see how spinal tap addresses it okay gonna hop in i wanna stop bishop to g4 so we're gonna do a fancy night reposition and this is pretty much always useful isn't it my king is happy okay challenging the d5 pawn all right i'm i'm expecting b6 and then knight to c5 no okay maybe just some uh b5 idea okay which one of my pieces could improve tell you what i don't want to see b5 this night could improve i should uh i should be answering my own uh questions here uh let's do this i don't want to invite the bishop on this diagonal i'm not liking my decision with uh maybe rook to c1 or or maybe even this questioning a lot of moves and there haven't been very many so far in this game okay so my knight is under fire i think i could do this knight takes queen takes bishop takes there's knight b6 with a fork i don't think there's any fantastic bishop move and uh what more yeah this guy is just out of play you know and do something that looks weird [Laughter] i don't know i don't want this rook to kind of see the world it's a wonderful reasoning all right these guys are kind of at a standoff this is a fiancee night never really a a good sign um okay yeah insisting on improving that bishop i understand for sure um okay i might be going in for an exchange sacrifice may have to yeah i don't think i could tolerate that so we're gonna we have some some play with the minor pieces fortunately [Music] let's see if we could uh work some magic i do have a connected passer because of that exchange about even on the clock i think uh yeah this knight really isn't a better square is there a good square for this knight i have pressure on the center this pawn can bolt and by not just winding up on here knight c6 is a nice square uh am i just falling for some tricks here let's put the knight on c6 rook is gonna get active my bishop could get super glued in there soon bishop on b5 i think this is for sure compensation um let's just step up wow i didn't even realize that that uh that night could be captured and why not why am i not seeing that i don't know um is this really going to hurt me the queen's sliding into f3 let's just defend some stuff i don't think i have to rush i want to knock out the rook yeah i just want to kind of cut off the rook for a moment i want that pawn to go any further we'll see yeah that pawn's ready to bolt let's get my pawn to a6 how about yeah let's do this um okay i have coordination actually with this move i think i'm better now until that move is played um it's a bit irritating gonna kill me here um down on the clock oh that's a big pawn to lose a really big pawn uh a really big pawn four seconds it's not a lot two seconds i had this oh my god don't ask me what happened in this one oh my god i should stop this stream right now and play the lottery lucky dropping pawns my opponent doing help mates and stuff queen e7 what a start uh that was one of those where uh how do you explain it i can't explain it huh what was i gonna say yeah that um i don't i don't want a4 to open the queen side up too soon i'll play it a bit more conservative what was i going to say yeah that exchange sack what to what to say about it i wish i had more time to think that one through do i hop in the center i think i'm cool with getting uh one piece off yeah now i know i'm in this pin but should i am i really concerned about that okay let's go back to what's here i'm gonna go for more exchanges okay let's go here i want to stay off of c6 so d5 doesn't hit with tempo just gonna keep uh i have to have to watch out for this pawn all right let's let's go here see what happens maybe i take and then uh try and do something along this file okay the light square bishops are gone do i take now take once and then play let's say queen c4 take like that i'm going to take like this that way there's not as many uh options to recapture and i think i'm cool with this both of these structures are interesting in that the dark square bishops are under control yeah so yay or nay to the queen exchange i don't know what white should do i think that should be avoided because i'll gain control over the only open file so that must count for something so am i not getting something good now first i want to control the knight i don't think there's any rush with the c file i think any pondered move any pawn move i just lock it up there's no fear of this i just give the knight a shove and now now i think we want to pivot here keep pressure on something so one rook off or i don't know what light should do okay so both rooks are gonna be a bit passive yeah let's get to the second rank good things good things happen um improve the night say here here here here the knight is not helped in either case how about we do this well i could have gone here too i don't know if i even want to take that pawn though oh let's not do that i think i want to just go here flight square and i'm ready to improve my king i'm not exchanging both rooks i'm way down on time is this a move um i'm just going to try and keep it simple i need to i need to be a bit more practical here [Music] i think i want to target this pawn right now oh both pawns are hit there's only a night move here but you can't get there to defend and now are they all falling oh there they are they are all falling i went i wanted to go there with my king you dummy bad mouse slip should still be better here let's go to this square no nothing bad mouth slip very bad what do i want to have happen here i should get rolling huh just take like that get pushing i wouldn't mind a night trade i have that under control may still do that just to get a square let's see i'm getting a passer over here two outside passers huh oh there isn't a good bishop check i want to keep pressure here 10 seconds though okay i should have pushed upon you have the knight under control i got that square covered three seconds yes 1.2 i don't know we'll see what happens 0.86 can't talk let's run it like this see what happens here i need a breather can i get a breather point one three plenty of time to spare oh spinal's been berserking berserk in [Laughter] he's back oh man okay spinal i'm still just cooling down from the last game give me a minute give me a minute man okay i'm ready should i throw the same stuff at him okay now yeah let's go yeah make up your mind only a three minute game all right we're taken we're just gonna go straight in for it a quick e pawn e4 push oh is that right let's open it up wow did not expect that all right let's try this and then knight to h5 i want to make white struggle a little bit to get this pawn and also i have this so breaking a lot of opening principles and do i want to just give up both bishops and say uh let's just uh be a trading machine let's try that i'm gonna get the queens off i guess so all right let's try this i'm up a pawn i got the night pair underestimate the night bear very deadly this bishop ever hit my knight some prep work for this point or this push g5 can be a bit scary doing this getting on that diagonal i think i'll be there in time 97 and then scoot my rook over diagonally scary that's another approach i think i want to just take once once bishop going to hurt me let's find out now if this i have a square right can you spare a square notice i'm going here not here i want to be able to get out of the pin those bishops are going to be killers all right this knight is silly he's just defending upon okay maybe i don't need him exchange sacrifice should we keep going with that that plan ah let's see castle's check here it's kind of scary but i think i'll be all right those bishops cover a lot of ground now that there isn't pressure here this knight wants to just get back in the ball game fast suppose i do this suppose just suppose now let's step up here no push and then bishop check here i dropped the knight that wouldn't be any good both this and then king here wow um let's go here wow did i just eat up a lot of time there am i ever going to get rid of this bishop if it goes there i don't know my back rank is really weak i have a square at least i'm missing something yeah something fancy let's go here one minute oh there's a double attack against both bishops that doesn't happen every day i think i want to just get rid of one of them okay look at this guy he's just camping out what's the body count one two three four five six one two three i can't even have time to count let's get out of pins um yeah let's go here i'm hitting something i'm fine oh i have to watch i have to watch that bishop can move anywhere and attack my knight let's go here for starters i want to be able to do this it's really weird really weird gotta defend this bishop takes pawn maybe i think i would have something fancy night here 28 seconds why am i playing so slow does this work it's rook there fancy no i could i could recapture like this and i'm there to defend oh i thought i'm up i thought i was up a piece with that sequence i'm dropping the farm well this is too easy now so one king and pawn ending okay [Music] i do not expect a uh a win in this one [Music] rat race i i was so confused in that one i thought i was gonna be winning a piece why did i think i was winning a minor piece with that sequence hmm i'm still just i'm still just trying to reflect on that last game i don't know i just i clearly miscalculated good game spinal uh i still i still had hope for uh some kind of fancy time burner at the end of that one you got me back okay neither of us are playing a very convincing in our two games okay riffian defense is this actually a thing roofing defense from let's look at the country we have time for that remember that last game or really all the games you played seconds remaining use them wisely okay i blinked and i missed my opponent's move there okay i guess we're gonna babysit why is the rook going back you were afraid of that i'm winning a pawn now i just won a pawn interesting uh imbalances that uh myself and spinal had there that brooke is really excited about b6 and b8 okay so i have a b pun in black does not maybe i should let the b pawn bolt and why not this guy is under control this guy's under control if he's under control what's this guy doing how does black improve how black challenged my center okay so some fire is being thrown at c4 i think the queen is super cozy right on right on d3 i could have also gone here okay i like my bishop here okay let's go b-pawn yeah uh do we keep going let's keep going i'm gonna take with the pawn okay well maybe i won't be taken with the pawn it's a little bit uncomfortable with the c file opening up i'm protecting c4 now converging on a7 so i could go here maybe with the fork queen here knight a7 where does the queen go i already have a flight square i wouldn't mind sneaking in g3 as well don't mind having options i think i i want a new a new square for my king okay oh i could take this pawn right now i don't want to take it just yet i don't want this diagonal to open up i want to keep this under control i'm giving up a nice square on c5 i'm prepared to just knock them out as otherwise i would drop e4 both knights are soon to converge on that point under a minute i think this is maybe the first game where i am up on the clock [Music] um [Music] okay let's let's calculate a little bit we're gonna go here because i want to be here okay now i thought i could just take that knight no it's just more miscalculation by me let's go here first oh was that really necessary okay now i have a passer and i'm up the exchange let's go for a pin that's that's very difficult to get out of there's two there's a lot of work black has to do to get out of that pin there's not enough time for it queen a6 next there's no way to get the knight here you know this kind of stuff protecting c8 so this is this is falling now we'll take with the queen get a queen exchange and that's going to be that okay we're taking out the knight pushing through where's the mate it's close by mate in one two three i think one two oh this one's three okay we got that one i'm in 22nd there are 126 in here who's in first terminal is having a fantastic run 21 with fire 18 17 16 i'm still fishing for my first four i got six and we're almost we're already at the halfway point call collet okay wilden next opponent first time playing this guy spinal tap is in pause mode a bathroom break for spinal or has he had enough okay we have a sicilian on board who cares about these bathroom breaks okay bishop here i definitely do not want to weaken the d5 square okay normally it's bishop b3 yo keeping pressure here would certainly make me hesitate playing bishop b7 if bishop b3 because of p sacrifices on e6 white is playing it a bit conservative ooh this knight these squares are really sticking out to me so what's the plan maybe a5 or a4 okay no well let's go here i don't oftentimes you know queen b6 what would keep me away from that is a counter-punching bishop e3 okay i'm going opposite the queen can't be that bad can it is white vulnerable anywhere eventually i want this but there's still more work to do and that work involves getting this rook playing and okay now's the time for a flight squad you have to be careful these bishops are both pointing at my king however indirect it may be you know fancy night jump is that something how do i improve here how about we dance how about this square right bishop's not here that'd be pretty juicy okay that should be one pain of a knight okay now this bishop's eyes just opened really wide okay how do we hurt white just gonna kind of wait give my queen a new square if this pawn ever moves oh my goodness he just moved that can't be right i should just be winning material at least i'm gonna go for the material take here and i'm i'm only doing no not i shouldn't say only i'm i'm doing this knowing that i can get that light square bishop right back now i have a big center and these two rooks that are on this file are basically negated by this structure i have an unprotected bishop here i want to kind of take care of that let's maybe go let's go here secure that okay that square was just given up top in there oh and this rook is a cooked that's a cook drip getting all fancy with these do i even want that rook i don't even know if i want that rook no i care more about just getting rid of that that bishop i'm fearful of this kind of stuff i'm cool with just being up upon i don't i don't need much yeah okay this just want to keep it squeaky clean i'm up a pawn and i'm down on the clock i just want to cover my base points let's get out any fancy stuff i don't care if my structure is ruined over here i'm up upon and this guy is like he's half dead i'm up a pawn and a half let's target the weak link if this pawn ever moves all of my major pieces eyes light up oh that was weird what just happened uh let's have for a queen exchange 37 seconds this may be one of those games that turns out to be very painful i lose one of these controlled positions targeting c2 now queen here there we go now she's kind of crawling up into a ball i love that pinpointing that okay let's let's get all the pieces as much as they can i'm going to keep pressure right here i just crack things open like that let's try this just try and get it the king here insert a check let's do that all righty i have lateral movement so [Music] okay i got the queens off 13 seconds though oh that's a free queen they missed that uh i was on the queen there okay eight seconds is plenty really is okay we're at that pre-move remove the rest of this game out there's no fancy stalemates mate in two one of these two there we go okay you know i have seen this b4 idea before not in that exact position but i've seen this b4 move with the intention to peel open the queen side with a4 basically like uh forcing me to capture away from the center because white has a lot of pressure on my b5 point with the minor pieces but if that doesn't happen i think it's just a liability you know if you i don't know that's just been my experience b4 without a continuation a4 i think there's a problem there it's uh inconsistent c3 and c4 weaknesses are a bit too much okay well black did not support d5 with the pawn so eventually i want this guy running but not too fast knight c3 knight f3 before e4 is important because here and then here could be met with e5 okay to give the knight a shove do i know which bishop knows its place i'm gonna hold off on let's just go here if the bishop go okay the bishop's not gonna go here being keto time huh all right let's babysit e4 uh i think i know where the bishop wants to be not here because that's a desirable move for black okay and this was my idea have this structure negate the bishop can this be maintained i think so this would be really weakening trying to break that down also if here i get to take and then shatter the king side structure that can't be healthy for this guy okay we're going to go with rook a i don't know i don't think there's any action going on in the c file so i'm gonna commit the queen rook given some time i'll sneak in flight square i'm not sure if we're at that point just yet 22 minutes left this tournament man does it fly by so what does black do they're kind of stuck right you try and secure a square for your queen i'm going to play a4 maybe rook c8 here rook ca h6 queen there okay trying for that could i uh try and pounce at the c7 square let's just do that and play something quick force the queen to go back rook here i could maybe go pawn hunting okay that's an interesting move um yeah that's that's a pretty interesting move but you know what we're gonna break here there's there's the idea of knight f4 and also to kind of give my knight a shove so this must be one giant pest on d6 now bishop c6 i'm anticipating getting some squares now this this isn't giving up the light square bishop huh it's interesting all right i'll i'll hunt down the bishop pair and i think i want another knight on d6 one night is good a second knight is good i don't think i'm gonna be too vulnerable if i do this yeah i don't okay he's unprotected but i don't know how you could really take advantage of this i wouldn't mind some exchanges in the end i always have this positive bishop pair it's not going away anytime soon i don't see a dark square bishop exchange happening okay well now this rook is unprotected so there is no knight e5 i might uh try and shove my knight b5 oof can we get at the king stabilize secure my knight queen b3 is always a move bishop c4 queen b3 combining a ch okay so now this square is given up now we're going to try and bring the pain and it's close by queen b3 or bishop c4 mhm what's better i'll go with bishop c4 i want to just kind of keep my queen around to defend some squares so i'm getting the exchange have to take otherwise i take here next with check also down on time jfn right here you still can't do that the rook is unprotected all right let's just uh pull the bishop back and let's now prepare to double here we go i guess they're gonna drop time yes okay i got 12 i got my first four it took uh took six games i'm in 16th far away from terminal who's having a great run let's see who we get next if i get a 16 maybe that would put me on the front page yeah but uh all these other games could finish they could be gaining weigh-in prinz first time playing this opponent king's indian let's let's give bishop d3 a whirl okay space so how will black try and combat this pawn e6 try and bypass okay well b5 is not a thr well i just want to eliminate that even as a pawn sacrifice the other move i was going to do is this all right i'm going to i want to open it up and i think i want to go for a pawn sacrifice just to split these guys up too strong so i'm giving up upon in order for what in order to do what to gain access to e4 i'm not threatening to win this um what would i like to have happen what piece do i want to play against i think i'm prepared to give up the dark square bishop why though why would i do that okay um let's let's go here no i don't want to be too quick to give up the dark square bishop you know here's the thing that knight could be pretty invasive what what kept me from trying something like that are these two squares become wonderful outposts for books definitely this one this is a whole i could control this but it's not without some fear yeah my opponent's ready to occupy that really nice diagonal so let me just uh anticipate that i have the better bishop that's the other thing so this is this is my bad bishop just i guess really this is the the key structure i'm looking at in order to define the good and bad bishops in this case even on the clock so if the knight returns i guess i'm gonna fly back well never was on g2 but i will be fiend kettling let's do this anticipating some pressure against f2 mm-hmm all right let's drop back um all right what's this rook doing nothing still down upon okay so could i do this bishop takes pawn bishop takes bishop bishop takes rook is there a great bishop move bishop h3 bishop takes bishop i'm gonna be a little greedy [Music] proceed with caution for sure giving up this super valuable bishop on but this bishop can turn into pac-man so eventually you have to stop this now you're gonna rescue this guy i will also be eliminating this bishop but i want yeah okay so i have to be super careful now because my light squares really weak so i just want to kind of take some steps to stop the queen from even seeing g2 i'm also opening up my king to check i think that this is just a really really important move um okay we'll go here scary wanna get the queens up move knight queen takes pawn ah let's just go straight in for this queen takes pawn with check definitely have to stop that oh my god you know what there was this move and i think i was dead wow lucky it was very lucky i think queen here two different mate threats as well as queen takes f3 i'm i'm on the rook the queen can't go too far yeah it's scary let's come over here i feel like i'm gonna blunder okay can maybe my can my queen just sit here for forever why am i going into this pin anybody know nine seconds i don't mind seeing that four seconds i don't know oh man i should have played it simpler i knew i was i knew i was signing up for that giving up that light square bishop not a very good practical decision yeah i think my mind was locked on you know this this is probably objectively okay but yeah practically not really a good idea i had to chew up so much time trying to defend stuff and i think queen queen f2 was a backbreaker if you check that one out yeah i think that that was a back breaker queen takes f3 bishop g2 queen g2 just too many threats and i don't have enough moves to defend them all all right so what's the plan here neglect the whole queen side okay we have an idea though the idea is to uh get up on an e4 all right and uh what are we doing next we're going to continue to try and develop here okay and uh bishop here yeah i have to watch out i definitely need to hang onto the d4 pawn i can't let you go oh maybe i could you're gonna try and kill me my opponent might be going for my throat what did i do to deserve this let's go too if i went one there's this backup and then this and i think i want i think i want it you know i want to win a pawn if they're going to go with a break all right this knight needs to get playing i don't know how else he does it dropping upon right here was was pretty nice oh boy all right here this bishop's probably pretty excited now could go here i don't know this is kind of scary here just says upon sacrifice rook you know mate me on h8 connecting with the bishop this isn't a variation to revisit all right this knight is has something to say about this diagonal there you go do i care about that light square bishop probably how much though enough i care about them enough all right let's let's maybe look at some forward squares here huh i i've i have a i have a knight that can maybe drop into one of these two i go here yeah i don't i don't want to give a give up that pawn where's the king gonna go why why is white keeping me guessing for so long give me this information okay i definitely need to secure this diagonal doesn't have a point here anymore okay so now there has to be something juicy soon let's go here this is aimed at preventing this majority from rolling it's a three versus two now and let's let's maybe threaten g5 went upon i think i want to sacrifice something over here okay we're gonna push we're gonna we're gonna go pawn hunting i have this secure and i'm winning h3 now i have this square covered by my knight and i'm getting rid of the uh well we saw how important that light square bishop was in the last game so they decline well i need to do something fast 45 seconds all right let's let's maybe continue like this get it that square why did i do that i want to get rid of some of these some of the pieces around the king i want my queen over here i want this knight to to hit hard when and this night makes its next move i want something fantastic to happen uh maybe that's something fantastic my bishop here here here here mate do i have all those moves i could try no the night the night's actually there defending wow it's tough to keep track of all these minor pieces um i'm going to give up that dark square bishop can i can i sneak in here oh 15 seconds why can i not get my queen over there i could pivot here the bishop's unprotected okay i want to get rid of that i only have six seconds oh no oh down on time oh man i floundered so bad in that one really bad oh man i don't know why i couldn't wrap my head around how to get my queen activated near their king oh man that one hurts that one definitely hurts uh i felt like i had zero play in the whole game on that one oh that was really bad okay yeah not one to revisit for sure i was lucky to win a pawn and man did not like how i proceeded after that okay what could i do here i got the bishop pair i think my knight wants f6 hmm with the pawn or a piece i'll go with the piece just keep my uh dark square bishop's eyes opened now let's go here could offer a queen exchange i wouldn't mind just camping out on this square let's go here straight away this pawn is pinned try and soften up this structure let's go straight in for it all right let's open it up all right let's pinpoint b3 how's that defended some rook left all right definitely better in this position let me get to a2 that's a piece may resign no i'm getting some more material now skewer okay and it should be crumbling now gotta check and go here and get the bishop at the end if they take here get to that back rank okay now we want queen here the move that i think was gonna kill me in that one game queen f2 okay let's just throw the pigs on there one two don't hurt me here gotta maintain one threat can't really defend it okay they resigned back to tournament 228 one game left maybe this might be the that might have been my last game i don't think another one is going to count i have 18 points if you're wondering top is at 38. that might have been it no we got the salt man i was thinking it was the first time i'm playing against assault man not the case all right salt man oh he's just trying to see what kind of reaction he gets out of me look at that king fanciness okay let's hop into some holes oh yeah look at these look at these squares that night gonna hurt me i got space i love it more space i want to kick that knight away let's do it now where's that night going let's just take all the space that night that night is a beast okay my opponent's really asking for it checaroni and if i go here there's a piece there's a sacrifice or i'm sorry they can give up the bishop or the queen for a bishop in a rook no rush it's one square here but i have this as a threat next move tournament is over this will be the last one be taking with this pawn right now [Music] let's run it like this i'm not even winning material with this sequence i thought i was winning material oh boy oh man i hope i have at least a pawn am i up upon the salt man why is this game even going on still i mean i should have i should have done something much better is my point [Laughter] i should have done something a lot better this isn't the way you punish what black did here oh man if the knight moves i have a i have something fancy okay let's let's hunt down upon okay some activity my knight's gluing everything together though he's happy about that still got this space um let's run with the a pawn now yeah let's go apon let's keep going um i feel like i'm close to not being better soon i want to do this and maybe grab c6 just get out of a pin okay wow the salt man i guess we have to do it like this d4 is under control 20 ticks for the salt man okay in the end i guess we're gonna have the rooks sneaky salt man very sneaky but still i'm going here what was that about okay stay on a dark square that way this guy doesn't hurt you less than five i'm glad to have this tournament over okay let's keep going all right no time for the salt man okay back to tournament that one took a while uh how many games you get in there that counted for the tournament not many nine ten total games played nine counted 172 and all i finished in 18th first page had someone at 42. oh i i did play this person once not in the tournament top three 42 39 35 a four was i was fishing for four for too long okay let's have a look at all the pages how's that showing up on the stream okay there we go page two three or 18 pages in all i guess oh spinal spinal had enough after just after just five alrighty the candy chess master and yeah some who just played a handful and said no thanks to the rest or didn't even play at all okay to the 171 of you good games oh you

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Length: 62min 29sec (3749 seconds)

Published: Wed May 30 2018