While I'm obviously not expecting to win now, and I would have resigned in the past under such conditions, and I would definitely love to play again regardless of this game, and I understand that it's considered a breach of etiquette to continue playing when in a truly hopeless position, I wonder if you could please oblige me by playing this out for a few more moves? I think that I may learn something as a result, and I would greatly appreciate it.
(Who knows? Maybe you'll make a slip-up resulting in a stalemate. Yeah. And maybe I'll win the lottery, which I don't even play.)
Anyway, 33...Kf6-e5
Thank you.
Okay, NOW I tip the king over.
Well played! Thank you for playing.
Do you want to play again? And if you do, how should we decide who goes first? My inclination is to alternate. That is, since you were the "human" side, which goes first, in the first game, I would be in the second game. Alternatively, we could let the die-roller decide.
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7 ... gxf6
Some commentary here about the evolution of chess strategy. A hundred years ago, masters would be horrified by Black's position - the isolated a and h pawns, the doubled c and f pawns! The ruined pawn structure is easier to attack for material gain.
But in the 40s, 50s, and 60s the Russian masters (predominately David Bronstein and Mikhail Tal) brought something new to chess strategy. They convincingly showed (by trouncing everyone else) that the ruined pawn structure is actually ok. In compensation for the messed up a, b, c, and f pawns Black has increased potential for piece activity along the files (with ...Rb8 and ...Rg8) and along the diagonals (since the b7, a6, g7 and h6 squares are now cleared for the Bc8 and Bf8).
The Russians had a funny term for this which translates roughly to "Athenian ruins", and enjoyed allowing opponents to mess up their pawns, only to be subjected to ferocious attacks along the opened up ranks and diagonals.
Since then this style of play has been well incorporated into the modern chess master and computer's style, to the point that no-one even thinks twice about it.
I look forward to seeing it in action.
Shoot shoot shoot!
I made ANOTHER mistake. I wrote 10.Bc4-d3, but my move was actually to b3. That's the move I actually made on the board, and that's what I meant. I can't think of any excuse for making all these mistakes. I can't think what to say except "I'm sorry."
I'm pretty sure that you knew what I meant, so I'll make my 11th move in a moment. (But in theory, you could argue that you thought I meant d3, in which case, I suppose you could change your 10th move, and I my 11th.)