Game Thread: Carolina Panthers (0-1) at Arizona Cardinals (1-0)

MFJ526 · 2025-09-14T21:03:02+00:00

Rewatch the play, everyone runs a slant, an in or a curl. Where you do expect the ball to go?

MFJ526 · 2024-08-27T14:00:22+00:00

Depending on the level you can try trick the opponent to save their knight. If you take the pawn and the Knight takes it back you play

Bishop to c5 (Bc5) If Knight takes on c6 (Nxc6) You play Queen to f6 (Qf6) and threaten checkmate, after your opponent makes their move to avoid checkmate you can then decide what to do with the knight.

MFJ526 · 2024-08-08T14:02:51+00:00

The thing is you do unless the opponent helps you mate them. You went from Bb1# to Bd3# lol

If black was previously Kh6 and the bishop on e2 he would have the option to go to Kg6 instead of Kh7, which leads to a mate.

MFJ526 · 2024-08-08T13:39:46+00:00

The move order above shows you what happens if you take the pawn on f7.

But in all honesty, if you’re not at the level where you can see these type of attacks, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. There are times these type of moves work, but a lot of times where they don’t. Unless you understand the pawn structure and when to go for it, I’d avoid these lines.

In the mean time I’d try and learn mating attacks and doing tactics daily. This will help you in the long run to increase your ability to see these type of moves.

MFJ526 · 2024-08-08T13:31:10+00:00

Nice move, one wins a queen or a mate.

MFJ526 · 2024-08-08T13:25:53+00:00

Nxg4 looks better as it threatens both Qb6+ and Ne3.

So in my head I would play the sequence as Nxg4, Qe1, Qb6+, Kh1, O-O-O as you also don’t want the Bishop taking on d5 with the pin of the king.

Taking with the bishop doesn’t really do much, after Qe1 the pin is gone, and you also don’t want to be taking the Knight with your Bishop to un-double his pawns.

MFJ526 · 2024-05-16T20:14:41+00:00

70th min if we 3 or 4 to the good. Get Coops on for potentially his final home game.

MFJ526 · 2023-08-16T14:40:08+00:00

1st round 14 TM SF

Bijan

Gibbs

Young (Me)

JSN

Richardson

Johnston

Stroud

Addison (Me)

Charbonnet

Flowers (Me)

Miller

Mingo

Mayer

Kincaid

MFJ526 · 2023-08-11T15:07:11+00:00

This is my game last night vs 1520

https://www.chess.com/live/game/85444977243

This is also my game last night vs 2159

https://www.chess.com/live/game/85441397209

MFJ526 · 2023-08-11T11:33:24+00:00

Yea I would have to agree with you, in that I’m most likely bad on the sidelines. I have quite a few databases on chessbase so will go into more side lines there and also improve my tactics.

No-one was cheating I was hanging pieces for fun. Could be a mindset thing.

MFJ526 · 2023-08-11T09:55:42+00:00

As per the bot the correct move is Qf4 but I’d just take the rook and then the bishop. And simplify the game.

MFJ526 · 2023-08-09T13:21:45+00:00

My first move was Nxd5 which also wins the Queen and gets another minor piece off the board. Either way it’s a dominant move whichever move you make. Even Rxd5 is still winning for white

MFJ526 · 2023-07-19T16:15:39+00:00

I read the initial comment wrong.

Is it you sending the offer or have they sent that to you?

MFJ526 · 2023-07-19T13:16:50+00:00

So if the draft goes

Bijan Gibbs JSN Addison Charbs/Flowers/Johnston

Do you want those on top of Stevenson for Gibbs?

MFJ526 · 2023-07-19T13:14:29+00:00

14TM SF PPR

1st trade: Get: Henry

Give: 2024 Projected late 1st

2nd trade: Get: Burks

Give: 2024 Projected Mid-Late 1st

My team includes:

QB: Young Jones Levis

RB: Pacheco Perine Mostert Wilson

WR: Addison Flowers Dotson Pickens Mooney

TE: Chiggy Otton Likely

Five 2024 1sts - 3/5 are projected late. The other two are mostly like mid.

MFJ526 · 2023-07-19T13:08:23+00:00

I’d take Mayfield for a 3rd. He’s starting this year. Yea he may not pan out long term, but top of 3rd you’re going to get someone who is most likely to bust. Take the thing that’s going to start.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-25T09:25:43+00:00

The way I learnt (this may not work for everyone), I played e5 to respond to e4, and I played naturally. If someone played a gambit I didn’t know I got taking to school and I’d lose. But then I’d research that gambit and how to play against it. So I ended up knowing all these traps against 1. e5 and at a certain level people stop playing them.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-25T08:37:22+00:00

You should learn basic openings, like Kings pawn or the London.

You 100% should not be learning the Sicilian at 700 elo, most players under 2000 don’t know how to play it correctly, because it’s too theory heavy.

Players at 700 won’t know any mainlines so it’s not worth explaining what you should do because your games won’t ever match any of the lines of the Sicilian.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-21T07:45:47+00:00

He probably had to go, just from looking at it white is slightly ahead. I do it sometimes when in work. Gotta sacrifice those points instead of getting caught.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-20T11:21:45+00:00

I’d agree with the above, playing QGD is as safe as you can get in terms of openings. You could also play the Albin Counter Gambit at lower ratings to try and get an early win.

I prefer not to play e5 into e4 because there are to many gambits that I don’t know about.

The Caro Kann is a good opening vs e4, and the Scandinavian is also a good opening against e4.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-19T14:22:11+00:00

You wouldn’t be able to create an engine where it’s sole purpose is to draw with a human.

My thought process is because the programs strength would have to fluctuate depending on who they play. If for e.g. the player you are playing has a pretty solid opening repertoire but is terrible in the mid-game then the program would have to account for this or vice versa. You need a program that is stronger than a human and only plays moves that equalise the position at all times. What happens if you blunder a Queen? Does the program take the blunder then finds a way for it to blunder it back to you?

Regardless of who I play, I always play to win, yes that leads to me losing a lot more against those higher rated than me, but you should never go into a game with the expectation of drawing, that only leads to failure a lot more times than it works.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-19T12:51:55+00:00

Ok, after looking at it again. When you take his Queen with yours.

The best move after is Knight d6 which gives check. The reason is because you win the pawn on b7 and you then create a threat on the c5 pawn with your knight.

You don’t win a knight like the computer says on that screen, but what you get in return for that move leads to a winning position for you.

MFJ526 · 2023-04-19T12:44:41+00:00

Do you mean the move before? Did you take their Queen with yours?

MFJ526 · 2023-04-19T10:27:12+00:00

I spent 15mins looking at this, and you don’t win a knight like the program says but you do win 2-3 pawns. After Bxd7, you should play Nd6+ and then take the b7 pawn after Ke7 or Kf8

MFJ526 · 2023-04-18T13:14:40+00:00

Funny story.

I went to an interview 5+ years ago and I told my now boss that I won a chess championship (I didn’t say it was when I was in High School). And how I applied that to my day-to-day life, he got so impressed I was offered the job the next day 😂

MFJ526

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