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I'm enjoying figuring out how to drag this out, ahahaha. Though I THINK you'll checkmate me in two, now.

I think it is just a formality now.

only problem is it might take a while to open this up a bit. all my pieces are pinned on the left side.

If you don't screw up you win and you're better than me at that. I'm a little better at control, I think.

it's not over yet, but I just have to make sure I play a quiet safe game from here out.

I'm so screwed lol. One mistake and you blew me up.

I missed both of those. I knew I wanted to castle first but I forgot.

never mind.

hmmm, missed that 1

Ah yeah I drilled into Justin not to move that pawn without a very good reason.

the f2 square is protected by the king alone, so it is called the king's weak side. I never move that pawn. most people move it as a defensive move on about the third or fourth turn, and there is a combination with the queen and a knight that pretty much costs the opponent a rook and a knight, and usually a bishop all for the cost of 1 knight. I will show you the set up on Sunday.

Not sure what you mean by that. Kings weak side?

I tried opening up my king's weak side against Nick, and I told him what the sequence of moves should be to see if I could get out of it, but he wouldn't go for it. Maybe I will try it against you to see if I can figure something out.

Normally I'm a more conservative player and wouldn't try something like this attack, but I think that we've worked out quite well that we're almost dead evenly matched. I no longer feel like I need to prove myself against you, because I know we're pretty much equal, so I can test things out with you and get an appropriately leveled response.

You're right, you did protect your e4 square a bit, and that was a back benefit I was looking at. It wasn't my main goal though. I wanted you to commit your bishop where you did. That was the main purpose of opening up that line for myself, to remove your white bishop from play.

I just felt like my e4 for square would be weak with your bishop on that line. I suppose you have it now any ways.

Fortunately I didn't want that line for my bishop, lol.

That was the move I wanted you to make, as I wasn't liking that line for your bishop.

I know. Black loses mirrored opens. This gives me an alternative attack on you. Could be interesting. I'm tempted to really screw with you but it might be able to backfire hard, lol. If you were Justin or Nick, I wouldn't hestitate because I could recover if it backfires. Hmm... we'll see.

hmm, I was just trying to win a square.

Gah. I hate mirrored opens so... lets see how this rolls.

Responding to that open with midplay was a really bad idea for me, lol. I should have done a sicilian type response by attacking the middle from the sides.