For anything worth having, one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service
-- John Burroughs
BeanEater hails from Montreal. We played two close games. I think we did well strategically--we lost on tactics. I'm up to 84.9% accuracy on Chess Tactics Server, but I missed two hanging pawns tonight!
Loss: BeanEater(1489)-likesforests(1478)
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 c6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. O-O e6 8. a3 Nbd7 9. b4 Qc7 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 O-O-O 12. Qe2 Re8 13. Bg3 Bd6 14. Bxd6 Qxd6 15. Rad1 Bg4 16. b5 e5 17. dxe5 Bxf3 18. Qxf3 Qxe5 19. bxc6 bxc6 20. Qxc6+ Qc7 21. Ba6+ Kd8 22. Qa8+ Qb8 1-0
A tactical loss. I could have won two hanging pawns with 9...Bxb4 and 16...Qxa3. I gambled on a complicated pawn advance, 16...e5, which lost. I then blundered into mate-in-four with 22...Qb8.
Win: likesforests(1479)-BeanEater(1497)
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 d6 4. g3 b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. O-O Be7 7. Re1 Nbd7 8. d4 O-O 9. d5 Nc5 10. Qc2 a5 11. h4 h6 12. e4 Ng4 13. Bh3 Bc8 14. Bxg4 Bxg4 15. Nh2 Bh3 16. Be3 f5 17. exf5 Bxf5 18. Qd2 Rf6 19. Nb5 Ne4 20. Qe2 Nxg3 21. fxg3 Rg6 22. Bf2 Bxh4 23. Kg2 Qg5 24. Nf3 Qg4 25. Nxh4 Qh3+ 26. Kg1 Bg4 27. Qf1 1-0
A tactical win. My opponent goofed with 26...Bg4. Better was 26...Qxh4. After I refuted his move, he resigned.
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