Thursday, August 13

Latvian Luring

This post is a follow cum wrap up of Midgame Musing which I posted a month ago! Today I woke up to a heavy downpour, but the day was brightened when I saw that my Latvian opponent had conceded a dramatic game. I was vexed before making my 15th move, because I was a piece down against the cool headed tactician from Latvia, an intelligent physics enthusiast at the same time.

Tactical players tend to be aggressive, and Latvia had produced at least one prodigious and inspiring attacking genius: Mikhail Tal. It is silly of course to assume every Latvian is an attacking genius, but sometimes knowledge has a bad psychological effect. I had the choice of either castling king-side and go for a face off in the middle of the park, or make the seductive queen-side castling which would surely attract his attention and aggressiveness. In a non-technical discussion about my options, Layfun couraged me to seduce him, and then crush him... "Oh most pernicious woman!"

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I signed off last month's post with "The last (option) is an elaborate plan. Do I have a plan? Yes. I'm down on material and even the game looks bad for me now, so I guess I'll either have to try winning or lose trying."

Here and now, I am happy to say that, I did not lose trying :)
Posted by 中国之星 at 3:02 PM

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