novice problem

stagolee

this is a bit easy to spot but im hoping my current opponent doesn't spot it and im wondering how many of you will.
black's move , what would you do if you were him?

ps. sorry for the quality of the pic, did it myself

stagolee

yup,he didn't fall for my crappy trap and he made about the best possible move against me he could of, now im f***ed

karlh

take your queen?

stagolee

aaaaaaaargh and ive just realised i could have had checkmate in one move a couple of moves ago, i am crap at chess :mad:

EDIT: heres the pic , see if you can get checkmate in one as white

stagolee

karlh wrote:

take your queen?

nope thats what i wanted him to do then i move my knight to the third square in from the top, third in from the left and its checkmate(i should have put numbers and letters on the side of the pic)

EDIT: which would look like this

K!LL!@N

So what did your opponent do?

Personally i think i'd have taken the knight that was posing the threat of checkmate, with my castle.

It ends the threat and puts the pressure right back on you.
There isn't even much risk in taking the knight because if you take the castle with either bishop or queen, you're still going to lose the queen.

Killian

K!LL!@N

stagolee wrote:

aaaaaaaargh and ive just realised i could have had checkmate in one move a couple of moves ago, i am crap at chess :mad:

EDIT: heres the pic , see if you can get checkmate in one as white

Ah, unlucky.
You could have moved c5-a7 for mate.

Killian

stagolee

K!LL!@N wrote:

So what did your opponent do?

Personally i think i'd have taken the knight that was posing the threat of checkmate, with my castle.

It ends the threat and puts the pressure right back on you.
There isn't even much risk in taking the knight because if you take the castle with either bishop or queen, you're still going to lose the queen.

Killian

yep thats what he did allright , and somehow i was completley blind to the possibility that he could do that. i seem to be unable to spot some quite obvious moves, im still annoyed that i didnt spot the definate one move checkmate the move before

EDIT:

K!LL!@N wrote:

Ah, unlucky.
You could have moved c5-a7 for mate.

Killian

correct again , im learning though , a while ago i wouldnt have even spotted it two rounds late.
im really enjoying this game so far , he had me on the ropes early on but i came back and nearly got him. its anyones game now i suppose but we shall see

stagolee

well i had my arse kicked but it was a fun game
hey, if anyone wants to challenge me im on www.gameknot.com as stagolee
just make it a 7 day game as im away from the net for nearly a week sometimes

pwd

Here's another one.
What should white do? (their turn)

stagolee

personally i would use the queen to take the rook at e6 but dont take my advice too seriously as i've only just graduated from calling the knight the horsie

pwd

No. It's a honey trap. If you don't take my queen it's mate next turn (I move it to b2).
The guy I was playing fell for it too .

stagolee

ouch, didnt see that one :eek:

K!LL!@N

pwd wrote:

Here's another one.
What should white do? (their turn)

I would have moved c2 to c3.
Puts the pressure back on your queen.
Your avenue of attack is closed off.
Your attempted honeypot still open to me if you make a rash move.

My queen could still be taken by your queen, but i doubt you'd take it after seeing a lot of your options closed off.
You'd be more likely to retreat and regroup.

If you did retreat, then i'd get stuck in with g5-h6 and put a bit of pressure back on you.

You were lucky enough to win from that position, but win you did.
So well done.

Killian

pwd

That would have been a good move. I probably would have taken your queen if you had done that though.

K!LL!@N

Well i'd have been prepared for the lose of my queen and i'd have taken yours with either my knight or my bishop.

Taking with the knight would put pressure on your bishop, taking with bishop would put pressure on your rook.

Either one would have you on the back foot again.

Killian

pwd

Yeah I saw that. I would have been expecting the bishop to have taken it, and for me to have to move my rook. I wasn't criticising the move, just saying I probably would have made the exchange

K!LL!@N

I was just pointing out possible next moves.

Killian