Greetings! I am the player on the business end of Albert's brilliant rook sac! Here is how it felt on my end. After a dozen games or so with Albert and not winning any, I felt pretty good about this one until queen h4. I thought I was holding me own and was pretty happy about that. And then my position collapsed faster than I think I've ever experience before!! Here is what I said to Albert about the game - "I realized I was in trouble after you played queen h4. I didn't see it coming at all, but I figured there is no way you blundered and just gave up such an obvious exchange and so starting to try to figure out what you were up to. I saw some of the lines you talked about, or at least part of them. Enough to see there was a very imminent mating threat from the queen, which of course is way I didn't take the rook. At that point, I thought I might still be able to wiggle out of the immediate problem, but realized that my position was quickly becoming so packed in that you had essentially won, even though we were even in material. But, as you said in the video, when I played queen b7 is when I realized this position was much worse than I had thought"
I cannot say i did it before, but I do know the idea of just churning my computer days on end to have it play against someone else doing the same has no appeal to me.
Greetings!
I am the player on the business end of Albert's brilliant rook sac!
Here is how it felt on my end. After a dozen games or so with Albert and not winning any, I felt pretty good about this one until queen h4. I thought I was holding me own and was pretty happy about that. And then my position collapsed faster than I think I've ever experience before!!
Here is what I said to Albert about the game -
"I realized I was in trouble after you played queen h4. I didn't see it coming at all, but I figured there is no way you blundered and just gave up such an obvious exchange and so starting to try to figure out what you were up to. I saw some of the lines you talked about, or at least part of them. Enough to see there was a very imminent mating threat from the queen, which of course is way I didn't take the rook.
At that point, I thought I might still be able to wiggle out of the immediate problem, but realized that my position was quickly becoming so packed in that you had essentially won, even though we were even in material.
But, as you said in the video, when I played queen b7 is when I realized this position was much worse than I had thought"
nice. I used to do postal chess years ago, but gave it up because of computers.
I cannot say i did it before, but I do know the idea of just churning my computer days on end to have it play against someone else doing the same has no appeal to me.
@@chess_and_tech I would not think so, what would be the point? It is good that you have a friend where you can play games together in that format.