Warning, this is a Battlereport on Chess. If this displeases you I would strongly suggest hitting the back button A.S.A.P. and avoid wasting anyones valuable time. There will be no huge images featureing either Orcs or Protoss battling the Humans or Terrans. Nothing but a Chess snoozefest, yawn, see, Im getting tired with boredom already. Turn back now if you value your exciting videogame filled, masturbation enhanced, life. Okay still here? Weren't you listening. This is a report on Chess, OMG how could it be good? Well, if your set on staying there are some things you ought to know.

First, let me once again re-emphasize that this is a Chess report and not a Battlereport written in the traditional manner. I have a distinct feeling many of you will not get this. For the most part I did my best to keep jargon to a minimum but with Chess it simply is not possible. If you come across something that is not familiar to you, simply skip it. Anyone with a computer and the Internet and an ounce of motivation can find oodles of information about Chess and Chess terms. Even if you are not a Chess guru you can still enjoy this report, just know that not everything in it may be for you.

Next, please direct your short attention spans to the images to the bottom of this text. These are in fact not images at all but a font. The reasons I used a font instead of an image are manifold, but the one that affects you the most is the small file size that is attached with the font. If I uploaded images in place of the myriad display of boards used in this document it would take six years before you could view it. And I would rather not hear all of your grimy little unwashed mouths spouting off about how, "it took forever to load dude, omg how could you rape my modem l that," and so on. One special aspect of this report is that I am not the only one contributing. That is why Zerg~Ling, Aeneas, and Saturnz are credited at the top.

Zerg~Ling has a fair amount of infamy here at Br.com and needs no Introduction. He is guilty of doing the lovely Flash intro at the beginning and for many of you he may as well have been the sole contributor. Next to my name is, poison, which is my alias used when playing Chess online and Saturnz was my opponent in the game featured below. The final cohort, Aeneas, is an expert in the field of Chess. He could beat a dozen of you, blindfolded, six ways from Sunday and not even break a sweat (and he's pretty good at Chess too, I hear). The game you find below was a submission I made to Aeneas to have annotated in an attempt to improve my understanding of the game. You will find all of aneas' comments on red background with white text. All of the comments I offered at the time of submission to aneas are in yellow on gray background. Lastly, all of the comments made by me now have a blue background.

Now I would like to point your inattention to the moves themselves. Now I know some of you have special code-breaking and deciphering occupational specialites in your respective countries various military orginizations, and or posses advanced degrees in translating Hieroglyphics and ancient languages. If this is the case feel free to skip the remainder. For the rest of you Numbskulls the way this works is deceptively simple. To the immediate left and bottom of each diagram is a set of numbers and letters. Each square is identified by tracing a route from these refrence numbers and letters to the intercepting square. In notating a move the piece is identified first, followed by the originating square, and then finaly the sqaure at which the piece arrives. Therefore...Ng1-f3 would be interpreted, Knight (N) in the first (1) row of "g" moves to the third (3) row of "f". Other pieces are identified with the first letter of their name, like so; "R" for Rook, "Q" for Queen, and so forth. However because the King and Knight share the same first letter, the latter uses "N" instead.

Simple, right? Well, if you still are in the dark about how this works, don't worry about it. I have taken you into special consideration and highlighted each piece that has moved in each diagram making it unecessary for you to have to understand all the nuances of Chess notation. Just use whatever intelligence God has deemed fit to leave you with to bash you finger, thumb, tongue, wooden ladle you use to feed, bath, and groom yourself with, atop the the left-most-mouse button whilst the pointer hovers over the scroll down arrow and gaze all doe-eyed and stupid with amazement at all the little Chess boards. Concluding this intro, if anyone of you were offended by anything said above, please accept my humblest of apologies, it was completely intentional.

By far the most common and ambitious first move. 1.e4 paves the way for the King's Bishop development and by doing so facilitates casteling (0-0) in the shortest amount of time. Most people will also suggest that this move also allows the Queen to be developed. This is rarely a good idea however. The Queen, because of its importance, is weak in the opening and any development at this stage tends to be at the cost of time lost by having to move it away from the enemies minor piece attacks. In short, your basically giving your opponent extra moves. The one thing White has going for him in the beginning is one extra move. It would be self-defeating to give up this advantage.

Likewise, a common and ambitious move. Black immediatly creates an asymetrical position. By preventing d4 with the "c" instead of the "e" pawn Black hopes to gain a slight positional advantage should White move his pawn on d2 to d4, which he often does. If such a transaction took place, Black would have a pair of pawns in the center, and White would not. By having a central pawn duo, Black would be said to have a static plus. The disadvantage to this is slower development. Black wagers that his static plusses will outweigh the minor inconvenience of being behind several tempos.

Again the most common move. Another approach, which holds a far different flavor, is 2.c3.

At first this move may seem illogical. Why give up a center pawn for a flank pawn? Indeed that is a drawback, but White has been steadily gaining moves. White was already one move ahead in the beginning, and Black's first move, 1...c5, had no piece development value. After Black recaptures he will be still farther behind in development as a White piece will have made its way all the way to the center of the board.

Now White has to proove that he can do something with his dynamic advantage. Otherwise it will fade, and Black will be better.

This move, while being natural and developing, also helps to cut down on the possible number of variations. The only move that fits with White's strategy is to make the counter- developing move 5.Nc3 and maintain the lead. Once Black has forced a White Knight in front of the c-file, there remains no possibility for White to erect the Maroczy Bind with c2-c4.

Black decides to spend yet another tempo to keep all Knights out of b5.

In my own opinion the strongest move here must be 6.Bg5, as White has already made two big concessions with his second and third moves. If 6.Be2, then Black can even fight for an advantage with 6...e5!

The two big concessions spoken of above are of course 2.Nf3 and 3.d4. Nf3 is because it eliminates the possibility of a straight 2.c3 sicilian. He could still play c3 of course, but it would not be as strong. Also, the move d4 is viewed with suscpicion because it symbolizes entering the realm of no return. We could conclude that White agrees with Black that the extra tempos are not enough and that Black may gain the advantage.

I'm not a specialist of the Najdorf Variation, but I think that the choice of the 6th White move is a matter of taste...

In all probablity, an accurate appraisal. By the way, 6...a6 signifies the Najdorf Variation, and some specialists of this variation are former World Champion's Robert Fischer, Garry Kasparov.

Actually 6...e6 is kind of difficult to play from either side. The variations are complex and require the most thorough of examinations.

This move aims at getting in d5 someday. It may be worth noting that White could have prevented 7...Be6 by moving his Knight to f3 instead. If Black was not alert and played 7...Be6 anyway, then White would play 8.Ng5! with advantage. So Black should preface the Bishop move with 7...h6. In all reality, 7.Nb3 was the best move.

White no longer plans to Castle with the h1 Rook. The move 8.f3 is played in order to sick the g-pawn upon the Black position.

This move is very natural. It makes way for the White King to castle queenside, afterwards a battery of Queen and Rook will be set up along the d file applying even more pressure to the beleagured d6 pawn.

I still play this variation in the hope of one day seeing 10...b5 from an opponent some day. I have played approximately 10 games a week since this game and have seen this variation to the tenth move only one other time. In that game Black did not play 10...b5.

I tend to think now, that ignorance in the opening is bliss.

In this case Bobby refers to the same Robert Fischer, already mentioned. The other guys, Uhlmann and Unzicker confuse me, I think also because they are both named Wolfgang.

More imbalances are being heaped upon the flame.

Thats a good point by Aeneas (and Saturnz), and one that completly escaped me.

It's okay for Black to castle now. He has sufficient resources to repel any attack, now that all of his pieces have been developed.

When a player sacrifices the exchange, he gives a Rook for either a Knight or, as in this case, a Bishop. It is considered a sacrifice because in general Rooks are more valuable then Knights and Bishops.

I knew he wouldn't be able to resist taking the Rook. In fact, I'm not completly sure what I threatened with my Rook move. Indeed, he could've just let it sit there.

White's strategy has born fruit. The Bishop can exert no more influence on d5 now that it is off the board, and the pesky Knight is dislodged from its perch.

I have matched my Chess computer, Fritz7 in this line of 18...Nf4. The results were fairly inconclusive, I think the game ended up being a draw.

The above position shows the final move of the calculation, which is sufficient to get the point across.

Black was hoping his material sacrifices would bring him a quick mate, however the threats are no more harmful than paper tigers.

Too true. I relaxed my concentration because the win was so obvious for me that I didn't sense the danger.

Black is actually winning after 27...Rg4.

White should play 28.Nc4 as suggested by me already.

Black threatens to potentially mate White if he is not careful, fortunately I was.

I have a soft spot in my heart for players who give me interesting games.

Upon viewing my initial submission, I realized it had cut off the end leaving only the first two-thirds of the report. Since it came out perfectly in the preview, I quickly realized it was because of the character limit. Fileread wasn't an option, to many big glitches showed up for me to bother with. Therefore, to solve this problem, I have split my report into two parts. For the second part, click here.