A simple game

This was a simple game. But a clever move made my opponent to resign. Remember I said "don't give up till the end" ?, guess he didn't read my previous post ;)

A little changes to the way I will post my games played from now. Will include my opponents id as well, just for my reference and nothing more.

I was playing white this time.

1.e4 c5
2.g3 Nc6
3.Bg2 Nf6
4.d3 e5

No complications till now, hence it was a simple game.

5.Nc3 Be7
6.Nf3 h6

7.O-O d5
8.exd5 Nxd5
9.Nxd5 Qxd5

10.Qe2 f6
11.Nh4

This got interesting Nh4. My next move was to Qh5 and go on from there. But he played Qf7 and it got more interesting.
11...... Qf7 
12.Nf5 Bd8

 

13.Nd6+ 1-0
He didn't realize the nd6 threat and moved Bd8, which was a blunder. Nd6 made him to resign, he thought he can't live without Queen, but the fact remains, he can live untill his King is not captured!!!

Chinni's 3rd Birthday

It was Chinni's 3rd Birthday on 23rd December and she knew it very well. I could say she enjoyed her birthday well this time.

All the thoughts and plans just didn't get the right path. Finally, me and N decided to celebrate it at home.

We had ordered a huge cake with Tom and Jerry picture on it. It was perfect, thanks to Daily Bread.

There wasn't a plan of decorating our house either. But since we reached home a bit early, I got few colored papers and balloons. That simple decoration brought in a lot celebration mood for all of us.

Chinni had already seen the cake and was very eager to taste it. The cake was decorated with choco flakes, which were vanishing every 10 minutes. Needless to say Chinni was on her toes to finish her job!

Finally the moment arrived. The birthday candle was also special. On lighting it opened up itself as a lotus flower with candles, on each of its petals, lightened. Hurray we sang the Birthday song.

We were happy that she enjoyed the celebration, could not ask anything more.

A game full of mistakes

This morning I was hungry for points. Sometimes I keep on loosing each and every game, either make mistakes over mistakes or simply just loose on time. This game started with a blooper, but then I bounced back taking off the opponent's queen. And worth to mention, my opponent followed my suite of making mistakes :) 

I was playing black.

1.e4 e5 

2.Nf3 Qf6 

 

Here is a tip: Don't go for Qf6 in the beginning.I knew this, but still wanted to play to look at the variations.

3.Bc4 Bc5

4.d3 d6 

5.Bg5 

After Bg5 can you guys guess what should I have played ? 

You are wrong, I played Qe7. Yes, I played Qe7, the dumbest of the dumbest move. But I still continued.

5...... Qe7

6.Bxe7 Nxe7 

7.Ng5 O-O 

8.Qf3 Be6 

9.Bxe6 fxe6 

10.Qh3 h6
11.Nxe6 Rf7 

12.Qg3 Bxf2+ 

Now what did my opponent play helped me to clinch the game. Else theoretically it would have not been possible. He was equally dumb, he moved Ke2 instead of Qe2!!!

13.Ke2 Bxg3 

14.hxg3 Nd7 

15.Nxc7 Rc8 

16.Ne6 Rxc2+ 

There is least to explain at this stage. I just had to corner the king.

17.Kd1 Rxg2 

18.Nd2 Rff2 

19.Kc2 Rxd2+ 

20.Kb3 Nc5+

 

21.Kc4 Rc2+ 
22.Kb5 Rxb2+

23.Ka5 Nc6# 0-1
 

And I had cornered the King.

This wasn't my best game, in fact it doesn't even falls in a category of "good games". So why did I post this? If your opponent is equally dumb, you have 100% chances of winning the game.

Hence fight till the last!!!

This was a massacre

I was playing white and my most frequent opening is e4. This game also started the same way. Here it goes.

I was playing white.

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 d6
3.Bc4 

Guess what did my opponent play? 
3 .... Nf6
This is a classical bad example for Nf6 and then I moved on and on and on.

4.Ng5 Be7

5.Nxf7 Qd7
6.Nxh8 Nxe4

Another big mistake was Nxe4, trying to gain the position over the center without his pieces developed. I could have played Qf3, not sure how would it lead, but would have definitely been interesting.

7.Nf7 d5
8.Nxe5 dxc4
9.Nxd7 Bxd7

 The 8 move was a blunder, went for a Bishop and lost his Queen.
10.Qh5+ g6
11.Qxh7 Nc6
12.Qg8+ Bf8
13.O-O g5
14.f3

14 ..... Nf6
15.Re1+ Kd8
16.Qxf8+ Ne8
17.d3 cxd3
18.Bxg5+ Ne7

19.Qxe7+Kc8

20.Qd8#

All he could do was loose the game !!!

Being too protective

The opponent being too protective can cost him the game itself. This was a very short game and ended very well for me. Here are the moves

I was playing black.

1.d3 e5

2.e3 d5

 This is how it all started. Normally white starts with d4. This provided me a chance to make a e5 move. In case white moves d4, e5 for black is a risky one.

3.Nd2 Nc6

4.Ne2 Nf6

Haven't seen anybody play Nd2 and Ne2, but this guy did.

5.b3 e4

6.Bb2 exd3

7.cxd3 Nb4

8.g3 Nxd3#

 He didn't realize even after I moved Nb4. This was suicidal.

Drive to Bellary

I am yet not tired of driving, instead it's getting better every time there is a long trip.

I remember my first long drive to Mysore in April 2008. That was my first out station drive with my car. It was so patchy driving and eventually we met with an accident. And now, the drive to Bellary was much amusing, thrilling, exciting and enjoyable, especially the return drive from Bellary to Bangalore. There is so much difference between the two.

So the plan was to make a night halt at Hampi, followed by a visit to Bellary, finish off N's Nephew's naming ceremony and return Bangalore, all in 2 days.

We started late on Saturday, Chinni woke up at 3 am and didn't allow me to take a good nap, and the journey started at 11am. By the time I hit the Tumkur express highway it was 12 o'clock and the distance I had covered was only 30 kms :). This is no amusing. 

The actual journey started then. The stretch from Neelamangala to Chirtadurga is awesome. Nobody can resist it, neither could I. Have zoomed at 140 kmph on that surface couple of times.

There are lot of Wind Mill installed on the small mountains near Chirtadurga. Chinni was willing to go there. Not only go to the big fans, but also wanted to jump off it. Children's innocence, you know, can literally kill us. 

The road from Chirtadurga to Hospet to Hampi is not deserved to be a National Highway, in fact the State Highways are much much better, like the Bellary-Hiriyur State Highway. 

As we were about to reach Hospet, Chinni saw Tungabadra river bank and insisted to go there too. Recently she has a crave for playing in water. Unfortuantely I could not take her to the Tungabadra river in Hampi since sun had set for the day.

The stay at Vijayashree near Hampi was quite a night. A well maintained, spacious, lovely environment, lots of greenery and beautiful houses. Would love to go there again, in spite being little expensive. Saturday ended with a very long drive, half splendid and half tiring, and a little disappointed as I could not visit Hampi.

The next day, we drove about 70 kms and reached Bellary. All the drive was worth it after taking Arpit in my arms. He is so cute and adorable. Babies are unimaginably cute and when they grow to be 3-4 years, they are quite unmanageable.

Our return journey started at 4.30pm, was at least 2 hours 30 minutes late according to my plan. Phew, I thought how am I going to drive at night. It was a bad experience the previous time and hence had decided not to drive at night. But this time it changed my decision. The road was so smooth nothing could let me say "No, I am not going to drive". The 30-45 minutes duration, the sunset time, is what I hate to drive. It's the time to sit and watch him go down the hills. The climate gets so romantic, that I really refuse to do anything but watch the scene. But I had to still drive this time, will not next time!!!

The stretch from Bellary to Hiriyur was amazing. The curves got me jaw dropping and drooling ;) The drive was so interesting, it always kept me on my toes. It was so hard to over take a vehicle, but the road was inviting me not go below 80 kmph. It was a double road with no dividers. I could manage to maintain 80 kmph till I reached Hiriyur. There was no stopping after Hiriyur since I had joined the Bangalore - Chirtadurga stretch.

The highlights of the trip were the return journey and my car gave me a mileage of 20 kmpl. The second one astonished me quite a bit. I really have a relationship with my i10.

No updates on Chess

This column needs more time than I thought of. Not able to construct a post with useful info. I still have a post in draft since more than a month. Mostly, it will reside in draft forever.

In short, www.chess.com is a very good website with all the information, knowledge, videos, mentors, online games and what not! Currently I am hooked to it, will continue to be.

So I am just not going to post more knowledge about chess here, rather post some good games that I have played. Let me keep it short and straight. So watch out this column for some interesting fight!!!

The year that has gone by 2011

A lot of ups and downs this year, had never experienced so much of it for the entire life. But the curve is just moving upwards and no signs of moving downwards as the year is ending.

Well 2011 has been a lot of experience on professional and personal front. I don't like too many changes but its unavoidable for time being. Hoping to have a linear curve for the next year.

But, wish I had spent atleast a year in Hong Kong. I will miss that for my life time. Gone is gone, I don't like to live neither in past nor in future. I like to LIVE TODAY, who knows what's in there for me tomorrow.

One thing always bothers me when emptying my pocket, Chinni. How much do I save for her? Her nursery admission costed me a whooping 50K (there are schools which charge even 90K). My education till graduation hasn't been so much, it was definitely below 50K. I can't imagine what a rainy day would be like now, how much do I save? how much do I save? how much do I save? The question pings me very often.

Should this change my definition, apart from saving for Chinni, I will live today? It can't be such a straight forward decision. Probably I need to analyze more on situation basis rather than a hard core rule.

Hence this makes to take a decision. What decision? I will update this post very soon.

Update : Well, my thought was to buy Honda CBR250 for my self

Honda CBR 250R

 But after a lot of consideration, my thoughts are swinging either way, buy or not to buy. Probably, I will postpone it for some time. I did go for a test drive and I liked it as much I had like i10 when I looked it the first time. 

Decisions if taken should be executed as soon as possible. Holding it is a very bad idea, its gonna take its course.