Fritz 16 - He just wants to play!
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David Lovejoy writes:
I have been playing chess all my life, but several long absences from club and tournament play have left me a fairly weak player, though a dedicated one (current Elo 1775). I managed to win the Queensland championship in 1981, but these days I only do well in events restricted by age or rating. Now retired from running Byron Bay’s local newspaper, I can indulge my passion for serious long games, although Australia does not have enough tournaments for my taste. Retirement has also allowed me the time to write a fictional account of Savielly Tartakower’s life: Moral Victories (Echo Publishing). As a widower I live alone, but I keep a few cats around the house to maintain healthy blood pressure and a positive outlook.
In the ‘agony’ game I felt I was doing quite well against an IM until a blunder ruined my position. The curious thing is I had decided to move 21.g4 but I reached out and played 21.f4 instead. I actually wrote 21.g4 on my scoresheet and only realised what I had done when I looked at the board again! This is the first, and I hope only, time I have made a ‘fingerfehler’. It was probably horror at my hand’s treachery that prevented me from pulling myself together and making a fight of it.
Before the advent of computers I enjoyed playing correspondence chess, and my ‘ecstasy’ game is from the Australian Correspondence Championship of 1983. The game stuck in my memory because of White’s final pair of bishop moves on opposite sides of the board.
We start with that agony and the horror of a finger fehler. David sent blank game scores which is absolutely fine so all notes are by me.
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