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Colin Crouch

we lose

at chess

EVERYMAN CHESS

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Test One

Test Two

2 5

Test Three

Test Four

Test Five

Test Six

Test Seven

Test Eight

Test Nine

101

Test Ten

115

Test Eleven

12 4

Test Twelve

136

Test Thirteen

14 5

Test Fourteen

1 55

Test Fiteen

165

Your Move?

1 74

Preface

While writing up reports for various magazines, I have been thinking about the

idea of 'ordinary chess', of games which are not technically perfect, but may still

be of interest to players, spectators, and hopeully to readers. For this to work well,

the writer has to take the annotations seriously. The idea is that while the game is

interesting anyway, just think of what spectacular ideas might have been thought

of if the player could have found the occasional improvement. Oten in chess, bril

liancy is just around the corner.

I have used a similar perspective in this book, but with a diferent, almost op

posite perspective. I am writing up 'ordinary games', my own, with the thought of

systematically going through them, spotting any mistakes of my own (and there

are several), and finding better moves. I am aiming to find ways of cutting out

mistakes, thereby improving both my play and that of the reader.

Many games have been played in local and national league events, and I dedi

cate this book to those who continue to keep chess clubs going, in what is oten

quite a dificult time. These days I am cautious about playing in long tourna

ments, and also quickplay tournaments, sometimes travelling from one end of

Britain to the other. It is good to play in my local club, Harrow, where there are

oten fity chess players in a single evening, sometimes close to sixty if there are

visiting teams. My thanks to colleagues.

Colin Crouch,

Harrow Weald,

April 2010

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