LICHESS.ORG

I need to keep practising how to embed chess games into my blog. I've done it before using chessbase but recently I played a game on lichess.org and I'm hopefully going to embed the game below:



At first I was disappointed because the game wouldn't display but then it clicked. It was a problem with the browser. I was using the Brave browser and when I switched to Chrome there was no problem. Even though I like supporting Brave, this is not the first little glitch that I've noticed with this browser.

One can also download the game as a pgn file and open it in another program like ChessX (that I have installed on my computer). Another interesting alternative offered by lichess.org is to turn the game into a gif (see Figure 1):

Figure 1

There is quite a good computer analysis offered of the game. A screenshot is shown in Figure 2:

Figure 2

One can also posts studies that lichess.org provides. Here is an example of one such study involving the fried liver attack that I have discussed in an earlier blog (Chess: The Fried Liver Attack).



These studies are a valuable resource and one that I should take advantage of. 

In the past, I've posted on chess a number of times but I hadn't really realised how much until I decided to collate them. The links to these posts are:

• Chess: A Personal History
• Toroidal Chess
• Chess: An Unlikely Win
• Chess: The Fried Liver Attack
• Chess Diagrams
• CHESS: Ding Lirin - China's highest ranked player ever
• CHESS: HOW TO EMBED A FULL CHESS GAME IN A BLOG
• CHESS: The Budapest Gambit
• CHESS: FISCHER versus TAL
• CHESS: THE ELEPHANT GAMBIT
• CHESS: THE MARSHALL ATTACK
• CHESS: Nodirbek Abdusattorov - 2nd Youngest Chess Grandmaster in History
• A Win Against Fritz
• An Historical Win
• CHESS: A BUMBLED DRAW
• CHESS: The Rules for Drawing
• CHESS: Holding On
• CHESS: More Master Mauling

I should play online chess more frequently. I watch one or more of agadmator's Chess Channel videos most days but often go for days without playing a game. I should try to develop a rating on one or more of the available chess sites so that I can set some rating goal for myself.

Playing Fritz

After a lengthy absence, I played an online game against Fritz on chessbase.com and was going fairly well up until move 29 when I blundered. It's been a while since I inserted a game into a blog and you need to practise these techniques or else you quickly forget. So here goes.

[White "Sean"] [Black "Fritz Club Level"] [Result "0-1"] [Termination "voodooguru23 resigned"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.d4 e6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Be2 Nb6 7.b3 Nbd7 8.0-0 b6 9.Bb2 Bb4 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.Bd3 0-0 12.a3 Be7 13.b4 c5 14.bxc5 bxc5 15.cxd5 exd5 16.Rab1 c4 17.Be2 Qb8 18.Nd2 Qc7 19.e4 dxe4 20.Ndxe4 Bxe4 21.Nxe4 Nxe4 22.Qxe4 Rae8 23.Qc2 Bd6 24.g3 Rc8 25.Qc3 Rfe8 26.Bf3 Nf6 27.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 28.Rxe1 Rb8 29.Re2 Rb3

OK, looks like I've succeeded. Reviewing the game, I simply didn't see the black rook sweeping down to b3. However, if I'd taken the time to tuck my white-squared bishop into the fianchettoed pawn position that was already set up, I might have had a chance. As it turned out, I lost a piece outright and it was all over really. Even if I move the queen to e1 and threaten problems on the black's back rank, the move Qb8 is decisive. Ah well. I should keep practising and remember not to leave pieces completely undefended because they then become targets for attack. In this case, my queen was attacked and the undefended white bishop. I couldn't save both. Below is a continuation after I retracted my losing move and in which I manage to secure a draw by perpetual check. I should practise inserting comments into games as well.

[White "Sean"] [Black "Fritz Club Level"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.d4 e6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Be2 Nb6 7.b3 Nbd7 8.0-0 b6 9.Bb2 Bb4 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.Bd3 0-0 12.a3 Be7 13.b4 c5 14.bxc5 bxc5 15.cxd5 exd5 16.Rab1 c4 17.Be2 Qb8 18.Nd2 Qc7 19.e4 dxe4 20.Ndxe4 Bxe4 21.Nxe4 Nxe4 22.Qxe4 Rae8 23.Qc2 Bd6 24.g3 Rc8 25.Qc3 Rfe8 26.Bf3 Nf6 27.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 28.Rxe1 Rb8 29.Rc1 Qb6 30.Rc2 Qc7 31.Bc1 h6 32.Bg2 Re8 33.Be3 Qb8 34.Qxc4 Qb1+ 35.Rc1 Qb2 36.a4 Ng4 37.Rc2 Qa3 38.Rc3 Qb2 39.Rc2 Qb1+ 40.Rc1 Qb2 41.Rc2 Qb1+ 42.Rc1 Qb2 43.Rc2 Qa3 44.Rc3 Qb2 45.Rc2 Qb1+

CHESS: HOW TO EMBED A FULL CHESS GAME IN A BLOG

In this blog post I challenged myself to learn how to embed an entire game into a blog post, specifically this current blog post. I succeeded without too much difficulty. I've embedded a rather wild game from the Spassky versus Fischer World Championship Match in Reykjavik in 1972.

To get it to work (using the information on chessbase link), the PGN file is pasted into the HTML between DIV tags as follows:

Then some Javascript needs to be pasted in so that the ChessBase server can be accessed.

This is similar to how LaTeX gets rendered when I'm creating a mathematical post. While viewing in a browser in Android however, the LaTeX doesn't get rendered whereas with the embedded chess game, it does. However, in the Blogger app for Android, it is not displayed.

I guess what I need to investigate now is what control I have over how the game appears and what other chess websites provide this sort of service.

[Event "World Championship 28th"] [White "Spassky, Boris V"] [Black "Fischer, Robert James"] [Site "Reykjavik"] [Result "1–0"] [Date "1972.08.06"] [WhiteElo "2660"] [BlackElo "2785"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8. Qd2 Qxb2 9. Nb3 Qa3 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Be2 h5 12. 0-0 Nc6 13. Kh1 Bd7 14. Nb1 Qb4 15. Qe3 d5 16. exd5 Ne7 17. c4 Nf5 18. Qd3 h4 19. Bg4 Nd6 20. N1d2 f5 21. a3 Qb6 22. c5 Qb5 23. Qc3 fxg4 24. a4 h3 25. axb5 hxg2+ 26. Kxg2 Rh3 27. Qf6 Nf5 28. c6 Bc8 29. dxe6 fxe6 30. Rfe1 Be7 31. Rxe6