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[MorningLightMountain]

Battery Power:

Rooks are usually more effective when operating in harmony, especially when a ROOK BATTERY is set up on a file.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(chess)
It is particularly effective to form a battery using rooks because they may be combined to occupy the same rank or file.

my opponent made several mistakes in this game, right from the opening, but still might have got draw, despite the opening blunder......however, once he separated his rooks (to capture some pawns that could have been dealt with later), he lost a lot of their power to work together....and this eventually cost him the game....

(this person was supposedly only rated about 50 pts lower than me, which is kind of puzzling....a 1800 player should not have made mistakes like this....)

enjoy!!! this was a fun game!!!....note that my opponent Queened a pawn, but that did not stop him from being checkmated via the "roll"....(I could have exchanged his Queen for my Rook, but a FAST checkmate was the better option!!!!)

MLM playing White


1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 f5 3.exf5 d5 4.Bb5 Bxf5 5.Bxc6+ bxc6 6.Nc3 Bg4 7.h3 Bxf3 8.Qxf3 e5 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Qxe5+ Qe7
11.Qxe7+ Bxe7 12.O-O Nf6 13.Re1 Kd7 14.d3 Rab8 15.a3 Rhf8 16.Bg5 Bd6 17.b4 d4 18.Bxf6 Rxf6 19.Ne4 Rf5 20.Re2 a5
21.bxa5 Ra8 22.a4 Raxa5 23.g3 c5 24.Nxd6 cxd6 25.f4 d5 26.Rae1 Rxa4 27.Re7+ Kc6 28.Rxh7 c4 29.Re6+ Kb5 30.Rxg6 Ra2
31.Rb7+ Kc5 32.dxc4 dxc4 33.Rg5 Rxg5 34.fxg5 Rxc2 35.g6 Ra2 36.Kf1 d3 37.Rd7 d2 38.g7 c3 39.g8=Q Ra1+ 40.Ke2 Re1+
41.Kf2 d1=Q 42.Qc8+ Kb4 43.Rb7+ Ka3 44.Qxc3+ Ka2 45.Qb2# 1-0