[Event "KGA Master norm tournament"]
[Site "SchemingMind.com"]
[Date "2009.09.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "andu"]
[Black "TimeOnTarget"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteCountry "AUT"]
[BlackCountry "USA"]
[WhiteElo "2124"]
[WhiteRD "50"]
[BlackElo "1788"]
[BlackRD "89"]
[GameID "219222"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4
{
TimeOnTarget: Hi André--sorry about the delay.  I was dying for more games a couple of weeks ago, now I have them and work wouldn't cooperate.  Hopefully by tomorrow evening I will have my head above water with work and can make my moves faster.
}
3. Nf3
{
andu: No problem, take all the time you need ;)
}
3... g5 4. h4 g4
{
TimeOnTarget: Thanks. 
}
5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Nxg4 Nxe4 7. d3 Ng3 8. Bxf4 Qe7+ 9. Be2 Qb4+ 10. Qd2 Qxd2+ 11. Kxd2 Nxh1 12. Nf6+ Kd8 13. Nc3 d6 14. Rxh1 Be6
15. Rf1 Be7 16. Ncd5 Bxd5
{
TimeOnTarget: Damn you are lightning fast . . . . 
}
{
TimeOnTarget: I didn't find the 1 minute blitz webpage by mistake, did I????
}
17. Nxd5
{
andu: no ;), its pause in the football tv game and I make my moves...
}
17... Bxh4
{
TimeOnTarget: Please don't tell me you are evaluating your moves while watching TV-- that would be disheartening . . . .
}
18. g3
{
andu: No, my next move is in 45 min., I make normally moves between reading batman comics and eating ;)...
}
18... Be7 19. Nxe7 Kxe7
{
TimeOnTarget: Ahhh.  I read that it worked well for picking stocks to buy, so I use two  dartboards-- the first one has a different area for each piece--I throw a dart at that one to see what piece to move, then I throw a dart at a chessboard with cork behind it to see which square to move it to. 
}
20. Bg5+
{
andu: LOL, this is cool, I must try it too, only throwing or with blinded eyes?
}
{
TimeOnTarget: Wearing a blindfold would be silly.  You try to aim for what you think is a good square, but you don't worry about it too much because  the Chess Gods guide you to better squares if you choose wrong.  That is apparently unless you incur their displeasure through posting tasteless pictures making fun of screwing sheep or engage in unrepentant hedonism, or at least I think that is why they are so mad at me lately . . . . . . 
}
{
TimeOnTarget: I found another tasteful sheep picture in a book.  I'll scan it and send you a link--and keep my eyes peeled too -- perhaps we can get everyone in the Chess Improvement Club to use pictures depicting unusually close relationships between people and sheep.  Make the rest of the folks on the site wonder if there have been recent developments in Chess training that they were not aware of . . . . 
}
20... Kf8
{
TimeOnTarget: Hi André-- 
This is really annoying.  I'm pretty self critical, but I feel like I have played about as well as I can so far--even have a material advantage--and you are still dogging me enough to where it feels like I am losing.  Maybe after I get some more pieces developed it will feel different.
}
21. Bh5 h6 22. Be3 Nc6
{
TimeOnTarget: This is annoying.  The right move for the bishop is the wrong move for the rook, and since you are not going to give me a hint before hand . . . . .
}
23. Rxf7+ Kg8
{
TimeOnTarget: Hi André-- I don't know who is going to win this one, but damn it feels good that I am at least making one game against you competitive.  You have had my number in our other ones.
}
24. Rxc7 Rh7 25. Rxh7 Kxh7 26. Bf3 a5
{
TimeOnTarget: Normally I would thank you for being so kind as to leave me six whole moves that I could do without losing material.  However, in this case, four of those moves are no good, so you will understand if I don't thank you.  Well, at least I have my a pawn, which is NICE . . . . 
}
27. Be4+ Kg7 28. Bf4 Rd8 29. c4 Rd7 30. Kc3 Ne5 31. b3 h5 32. Bg5
{
TimeOnTarget: André -- I just looked at your game and move numbers.  I am just now back to where I can handle it-- under 20 games.  You have 50 games going and have done 10 times as many moves as I have this last month.  And, in our four games, you hosed me in all of them except for this one.  This one I found a Max Lange game and thought I had improvements on it.  After leaving the book, I think I have played pretty well--I am not conscious of making any mistakes, and I am being exceedingly careful because this is my last chance to beat you in these four games.  But it still feels like you have an advantage over me even though I have a slight material edge and finally have all my pieces developed.  You gotta teach me how man you can crank our so much chess that is still of such high quality.  I might not be able to reciprocate in kind, but I can teach you lots of interesting things, like how to pick locks, how to crack safes--by manipulating the dial, not force, and how to spot people who are lying-- the last a consequence of my profession.  Did you do rapid and over-the-board first?  (you want to hear a pisser-- I finally had an actual real advantage over yozzer in the kings gambit tournament.  He timed out and we were just at the end of move 5, so it was an "abandoned" game for the purposes of ratings, although it counted as a win in the tournament.  My rating could sure have used a win, given the hurt dance you and peterm have put on me.)
}
32... Ng4 33. Kd4
{
andu: Hi Glen, what you NOT know, I have cancer and the most time I´m in bed or hospital, so I have much time to play..., in the last two month I have around 20 games with "time expired (today 3 new), so the statistic is not the really one. To the games between us: if someone play very offensive, I have mostly an advantage, THIS is what I can play, I loose 80% of every defensive games, this one feels like a draw. To high quality: look at this:http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=222198
http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=221166
http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=221437
http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=222312 these are some games with stupid mistakes, and there are some more which are still running. Here are my daily time expired:http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=218989
http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=218991
http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=218751 all after this 5th move, they will be good for the rating, but why do this guys join a high tournament and didn´t play this? I don´t know...if you have enough time look at my ended games and see how many time expired I have in the last 4 month, terrible...
}
33... Nf6
{
TimeOnTarget:  Hey André-- what you said confirms my belief that you are actually way better than your rating shows.  From personal experience, I can tell you why people time out against you-- you make good moves and it is sometimes really a pisser to come up with a decent reply, so you look at it, don't move, come back to it, but don't move, come back again . . . .  And I have a feeling that your blunders vs. most good player's blunders are probably way, way less frequent.  As many games as you have going and moves that you do, you are going to have blunders sometimes.  But I have now played what -- probably well over 100 moves against you, and no sign of a blunder yet.
And, if you can play as much as you do as well as you do  while having to deal with cancer and being worried about your health-- that tells me that you are a rock.  When you get completely recovered and don't have that to cloud your mind, you are going to be an absolute monster.  I had a really bad medical thing a bit over a year ago.  I started getting horrible headaches that just wouldn't go away--like a migraine where I could hear every beat my heart made.  The pain was so bad at times I had to go to the emergency room (man, I really wish I had some of the Dilaudid (spelling???) they gave me when I could put on some Grateful Dead and enjoy it.)  Anyway, 3 doctors diagnosed migraines and for 7 weeks it didn't get better. Brain MRIs found hemmoraghing (sp) and finally the fourth doctor, a neurosurgeon, diagnosed the problem.  I had suddenly started to lose cerebrospinal fluid, my brain was descending in my skull, causing the headaches and bleeding.  It was truly freaky-- surgery was virtually impossible and very risky, so I had to spend the next 5 months -- 5 months-- with my hips elevated above my head for as much time as possible--I could get out of the inclined bed to quickly go to the bathroom and eat-- that was it.  Anyway, I couldn't do shit with my hips over my head for like 22 hours a day--even reading was really, really hard.  And, I couldn't get my mind off worrying even if I had been able to do anything.  So, if you can deal with cancer and still keep enough of a mental grip to play as well as you do-- man, that is some kind of tough.  But, first things first-- do yourself and your body right-- get enough sleep.  I am bad about sleeping enough and the more I read, the more I realize I have been fucking up.  Not getting enough good sleep can hurt in ways you would never expect.  So, take care of your body first.  I gotta run now to get some shut eye myself--I have to take my little girl to school in a couple of hours.  Are you interested in learning to crack safes??   I can send you a couple of combination locks and teach you.  I think it is really fun--let me know if you are interested.  Take care, Glenn
}
{
TimeOnTarget: I am with you on the offense.  I almost don't know what to do if I don't have the initiative.  I don't know that I have it in this game yet, but it is sure better than it was a couple of moves ago.  Actually, you are the one who deserves credit for my current position.  On move 30, you had me so tied up that there were only two realistic choices--choices that didn't immediately lose material in a way that would continue to hurt me.  I basically had Ne7 or Ne5.  Even that decision wasn't that much of a choice because there wasn't much good for my knight after Ne7.  So, you were controlling me so thoroughly you forced me into making what is turning out to be a pretty good move.  I don't know who will win, but I at least feel like I am back in the game and can make it a fight for you.  You are positively deadly with the bishop pair. .  .  .  .  

.  .  .  Check out one of my games against Yozzer.  http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=219220  This was the first game that I felt like I had a legitimate advantage and was on the attack.  Then he times out.  It counts for a win in the tournament, but because we didn't have enough moves, it is otherwise scored as an abandoned.  That was a bummer.  Wins have been hard for me to come by lately.

One of my games against peterm started to go a bit better.  I don't know that I have an advantage or anything, but at least I have a legitimate threat going-- the first one in any of the games against him.  http://www.schemingmind.com/game.aspx?game_id=219226  Unfortunately, I have my problems too-- like the potential rook skewer of my king and queen on the g file.  I originally thought he was going to trade queens and I wanted to move my king to f6 to open the g file for my rooks, but at least I get to fight a bit in that game too.  Take it easy, Glenn
}
34. Bf3
{
andu: yes, I´m in this game game fighting for a draw, my pawnstruchture is better and I´m one pawn up. We will see where it goes...
}
{
TimeOnTarget:  André -- well, it sure doesn't feel like you are fighting for a draw.  In fact, a couple of moves ago I was really frustrated and sure I had screwed up what was a promising game for me.  I found and had used the game below until about move 12 or so.  Lange lost that game, but I thought his position was really good early, so I deviated from his continuation.  You showed me that the position wasn't quite as good as I had thought.  From about move 20 until move 30, I had started to feel kind of glum.  I had planned to use my knight on the queenside to try to pick off a pawn or two, but you had me so locked up I couldn't do that.  It was the lack of alternatives that led me to Ne5, which I now think was a key move.  Did you find this game?  

[Event "?"]
[Site "Breslau"]
[Date "1859.??.??"]
[White "Anderssen,Adolf"]
[Black "Lange,Max"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C39"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5
Nf6 6. Nxg4 Nxe4 7. d3 Ng3 8. Bxf4 Qe7+ 9. Be2
Qb4+ 10. Qd2 Qxd2+ 11. Nxd2 Nxh1 12. Nf6+ Kd8 13. Nd5
Be7 14. O-O-O Nf2 15. Rf1 Bxh4 16. Bxc7+ Ke8 17. Bd6
Na6 18. d4 b5 19. g3 Bb7 20. Bf3 Nd3+ 21. cxd3
Bxd5 22. Bxd5 Rc8+ 23. Kb1 Bg5 24. Ne4 f6 25. Bb7
Rc6 26. Bxc6 dxc6 27. Nxf6+ Bxf6 28. Rxf6 Kd7 29. Be5
Re8 30. Rd6+ 1-0

}
34... Kg6 35. Bxf6
{
andu: so, one step closer to a draw ;)
}
{
TimeOnTarget: I was afraid you were going to do that.  My alternative was Ng4, but that didn't look as good-- man, I had started to love that h pawn, sniff, sniff.  He and my knight were a great team.
}
35... Kxf6 36. Bxh5
{
andu: ...and now he is a part of a great history ;)
}
36... Rh7
{
TimeOnTarget: I miss my c pawn too . . . .  He would look really swell sitting at c6 long about right now.
}
37. g4
{
TimeOnTarget: It would sure be nice if your bishop and pawn didn't require both my rook and king to look after.
}
{
TimeOnTarget: What did I do with that c pawn anyway?  Hope it was good, because he would fix a lot if he were on c6 right now.
}
37... Rh6 38. Kd5 Ke7
{
TimeOnTarget: Not much on youtube is actually funny, but check this one out.  I'm kind of a practical joker, so I loved this.
}
{
TimeOnTarget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17-JYf3N08
}
39. Kd4
{
andu: LOL, really AWESOME !! Do you know this concert? I have see this three times in Europe, for me the best show and a amazing sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnapx502uQ
}
{
TimeOnTarget: Hi André-- I never saw Pink Floyd, though I very much would liked to have.  I don't ever recall them even playing anywhere near where I was.  That song, Comfortably Numb, is an all time great.  And, not coincidently, it is what I played when I got as truly messed up as I had ever gotten (and not too far off how messed up you can ever get) back in High School.  Anyway, I had gotten all four of my wisdom teeth out about a month earlier and they had given me a prescription for 30 Percodan, which I didn't really even know at the time.  Well, they did a pretty good job on the teeth, and I figured out that the Percodan weren't something to be squandered on that kind of stuff anyway, so I saved almost all of them for getting wasted.  Now, at this point, I was mostly a big drinker (if anyone ever asks me if I have a drinking problem, I tell them "No I don't, I can drink 36 beers without barfing" which I actually did one time.  A buddy of mine and I shared a house for a couple of years when he was finishing school and I was just out.  Kurt can drink with the best of them too, and he is quite a bit bigger than me.  Anyway, one Friday night at around 5pm, we went to the store and bought three cases, which we dutifully split into 36 each on our own halves of the refrigerator.  We finished about 4 or 5 am. I was so drunk I could barely find my mouth with the beer can and man did I feel like hell when I woke up at around 5 pm on Saturday evening. But, I didn't barf.)  Anyway, I had gone out and gotten plenty drunk one night (my Senior Year in High School, which I didn't even have to do in order to graduate, and I was lucky enough to have a "mother-in-law" bedroom and bathroom at my parents house-- entirely on the other other side of the house from everything else, to go from my parents bedroom to mine, they would have to go through a hallway, the front door foyer, the den, the kitchen, the utility room, and then to my bedroom-- and I had my own door going to the garage--it was choice.  So, the reason for that digression is that I could play my music pretty loud, even late at night, and not wake anyone up.  So, I get home pretty lit, there were always Coors in my parents' fridge, so I grab a couple of those, go to my room, and being wasted, I decide to take THREE Percodan, which I did, then I started listening to music.  When those Percodan started to hit (and hit hard) I put on "Comfortably Numb" and I had timed it just perfectly.  I lay on my bed and it was like I all of a sudden was doing this continuous fall and spinning at the same time as I listened to it- it was really intense, but never got unpleasant--in fact, it was damn near perfect-- and that lasted throughout the entire song Comfortably Numb, and more to boot-- I think I went to Dark Side of the Moon, then Santana Moonflower after that.  So, thanks for the link.  It brought back a really good memory.   I am sitting here shaking my head and laughing as I think about it, how I felt when those Percodans hit, I wish I had a video of my face then, I bet my grin went from ear to ear . . . . . 
and in the game, if you want to make another move right away, I am willing to skip mine.  Not only do I not have anything I want to move right now, I can use the extra time to think.  So, I'll just pass until you make it more interesting for me . . . . Take it easy, Glenn  (there is one more really funny video from youtube that I am going to find the link and send you tomorrow.)
}
39... Rf6
{
TimeOnTarget: I had a damn Microsoft update restart and I had 5 Word documents open, a couple of browsers with work stuff and one with this site, and 19 PDF files I had collected to make into one document-- now scattered back in my files.  I swear they know when they can screw you over by doing that stuff. .. .. .. .. This is kind of interesting.  It is let's see if I can maneuver my King and Rook to where they can help my other pawns, but still keep your bishop and pawn from becoming trouble.  That leaves basically 4 moves, and the two king moves are bad, so basically, I have to pick from Rf6 or Re6 (I'm trying to save b6, I have a feeling I may need it, plus I want to keep that rank open for my rook, if possible.)  I think Rf6 may be a little better because it gives my rook a little more space from attack, still seems to cover what it should, and it is not like you are going to do a king run to push your g pawn in (were you?), so I don't necessarily gain anything by "cutting you off" by doing so.  Sorry-- it is helping me to kind of talk through my moves.  Maybe you can tell me what I overlooked later . . . .
}
40. Ke3
{
andu: Well, this game looks like a draw, smells like a draw, so it is a draw... In this position I don´t wanna do something dangerous and you cannot attack with perspective of a win. The only choice is that you do something special and you are riding then in a big pot of shit ;)).
}
{
andu: PS:: A few weeks after the Pink Floyd concert in Berlin was an another great open air concert:
For the "warm up" performed these guys:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scDdiHIP4ag that was the time before they are great... 12 beers later came the act of the evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8oEa2csgpw after this I had a 3-days-PEEEE in my ears, but it was worth any cent and my day after headache too ;)
}
{
andu: Hey, Glen, don´t throw away the draw....
}
{
TimeOnTarget: You are right, I can't let your bishop and pawn free or I am hurting and I sure can't do anything on the queenside without bringing either the king or rook into play  . . . . Good call-- it was promising for me at first, I thought I when I left the "book" I did a good job for 5 or 10 moves, but then you did a killer job on taking the advantage I had (or thought I had) away.  So, I am going to offer a draw with this move, but simultaneously send you a challenge where I can get you on my home turf, well at least if I have one it will be it.  I tell you, I have just fairly recently started getting into Metallica and I am sorry I didn't sooner.  I was just on the internet the other day digging up both the guitar and keyboard parts to "Fade to Black" so I could give them to TJ, who has a ton of musical talent.  I am actually not as wild about AC/DC-- just a bit harsh for me--I listen to a lot of stuff like Reggae and Jazz, Zydeco, etc.  Occassionally I am in the mood for some unrepentant headbanging, but Metallica seems to be filling that bill for me lately.  But, I will have to send you a copy of one of my CDs, REO SpeedDealer.  They make AC/DC sound like the Carpenters in comparison.  They have such sophisticated song titles as "Double Clutchin' Finger Fuckin" and "Pig Fucker."  Actually, a couple of bands I really like that you might or might not be into are Television, The Flaming Groovies, the New York Dolls, and, of course, the Clash.  Speaking of great concerts, I saw the Talking Heads twice and both shows were amazing.  Maybe I will make you a DJ compilation of some stuff that I think really rocks-- I like doing DJ compilations.  For now, check out this youtube clip-- the last guy who is doing the vault I used to keep on my desktop so that whenever I thought i was having a bad day, I would just watch him and it made me feel much better.  My current desktop "I'm having a bad day" is this guy-- entitled "Bike".  Click on this link and you should be able to do a free download-- it shouldn't take that long.  While I was looking for the "Bike" guy, I ran across several other cool things, including some videos of me doing some free solo climbing, as well as some more humor-- the Chris Rock "Training Video" is hilarious.  http://rapidshare.com/users/UER95Y.  I gotta crash, so I will pull up the link to that "Olympic Hopefuls" with the great gymnastics clips tomorrow.  Have a good one, Glenn
}
40... Re6+
{
TimeOnTarget: shit, I am glad I looked-- apparently I didn't move, but I thought I had, so now I just did.  I was going to offer a draw, but I spaced out.
}
41. Kd4=
{
andu: no problem^^
}
{
Game Over: Hi André -- an excellent job on your part.  You were stomping me in a couple of our other games so I tried really hard on this one.  I researched it and found the Anderson V. Max Lange game somewhere around move 6.  I followed that until move 12, but then I really worked on the moves from move 12-20 and felt like I had done a good job, but from about move 20 on, it felt like I was just barely holding you off.  Excellent job.   With this draw my winning percentage against you rises-- all the way to 12.5%-- ugh.  Hopefully I can get you in the game I just challenged you in though.  I sent you a clip with the gymnastics guy having a bad day in the game I sent you a challenge on-- along with all the cool and funny stuff I came across while looking for it.  Take it easy, Glenn
}
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