The town championship is already finished but I still owe you two games. So here is a nice fight from round 8.
Lichess
Another victory, but…
…my DGT board didn’t link to Lichess yesterday. DGT LiveChess 2.2.5 worked fine. Because it was only few minutes before the scheduled game I had no chance to search for the error.
Dirty Harry strikes again
In the sixth round of our online town championship I won my first – and a thrilling – game with the black pieces. Again I played on a DGT board connected to the server with DGT Live Chess on my Apple M1.
In the opening I chose the Dirty Harry Sicilian, a nice surprise weapon not only in blitz or rapid games. Perhaps it’s also playable in «over the board» tournament games at our level. I won’t tell you too much about the lines here. The repertoire was developed by «ChessExplained» Christof Sielecki. The theory and the interesting story behind its birth is available at chessable.com.
A nice win against the Caro Cann
5th round of our online town championship, second win. Again I played with my DGT chess board and DGT Live Chess and had no technical problems.
Bad luck and good luck
My fourth game in the online town championship was a roller coaster: A typical Leningrad Dutch opening, quite interesting maneuvers and a finish, where we both missed a win.
Tools for PGN files
Two Three tools for extracting information and/or manipulating large pgn files. Especially pgn-extract did impress me. From lichess I downloaded a file (213 GB!) for later training a NN. It took close to 12h on a single CPU but I was able to extract around 5 GB of games, filtering time control between 900 and 3600 seconds plus dividing the files into the ECO codes A – E.
(Update:) Someone asked for the uci-analyser, here you go:
My first victory…
…at my DGT board in a kind of official tournament:
My second attempt…
…playing online chess with a DGT board on my M1 worked better – at least from a technical point of view 😉
Playing Online Chess with a DGT Board and the M1 works…
…well, almost ;-).