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ANNOTATED GAME
41st GK tournament
pikket (1774) vs. lq26 (1989)
Annotated by: pikket (1986)
Chess opening: Petrov (C42), classical attack, Tarrasch variation
pikket (1774) vs. lq26 (1989)
Annotated by: pikket (1986)
Chess opening: Petrov (C42), classical attack, Tarrasch variation
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1. e4 |
Continuing the oddly popular series entitled "Pikket Loses Games of Chess to Stronger Opponents" here is my other game against lq26. Despite playing white I never even made it to the ending in this one... | ||||
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1... e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 |
The Petroff (which, as everyone knows, is great if Black just wants to, er, win). | ||||
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3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. c4 |
Aiming to undermine the support for Black's central knight. | ||||
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8... c6 9. Re1 |
Threatening to win a pawn with the exchange on e4, so: | ||||
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9... Re8 10. Nc3 |
Threatening to win a pawn with the exchange on e4, so: (No, you're not going mad - I did just repeat my own annotation for two different moves. It's called unpoetic license). | ||||
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10... Nxc3 |
Black blinks first. | ||||
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11. bxc3 Rxe1+ 12. Qxe1 |
A difficult position to assess. White has a small edge in the form of control of the e-file and half-open b-file. Black's compensation is his lack of structural weaknesses and a target in White's weakened central pawns. | ||||
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12... h6 |
Black wants to stop pieces entering his position at e7, so he first prevents Bg5. | ||||
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13. Rb1 |
Seizing the half-open file. | ||||
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13... b6 |
Calmly limiting the White's rook's line of attack. This move does, however, invite White's next -- taking advantage of the new target on b6: | ||||
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14. a4 Be6 |
Threatening to win a pawn with the exchange on c4, so: (Gosh, this writing lark's a doddle - I only had to change one letter for that comment :o) | ||||
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15. Qe2 |
White defends, also strengthening firepower on the light squares after a later cxd5. | ||||
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15... Nd7 |
Black continues calmly to develop his pieces on their optimum squares (obviously placing the knight on its other square, a6, would be disastrous - in view of cxd5, winning a piece) | ||||
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16. Be3 |
Bd2 could have been considered as an alternative; keeping the Queen's line of sight down the e-file. | ||||
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16... Qf6 |
With this, Black is gearing up to pin the knight on f3 with ...Bg4 and further wreck White's pawns. | ||||
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17. cxd5 cxd5 18. a5 |
(?!) White has tidied up his central pawns and now needs to find an active plan. I decided upon this move, aiming to exchange off my isolated a-pawn and create a pawn weakness in Black's queenside. Given how the game continued 18.c4 (or a preparatory 18. Nd2 first) would have been more circumspect. | ||||
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18... Rc8 |
Ganging up on the backward c-pawn. | ||||
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19. axb6 |
White has time to swap off his weak a-pawn since ...Rxc3 20. bxa7 is obviously too dangerous for Black. | ||||
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19... Nxb6 |
The correct recapture. The knight is heading for c4 where White will probably have to exchange his LSB for it. The isolated (but passed) a-pawn represents either a strength or weakness for Black, depending on how you look at it. Black is slightly better now. | ||||
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20. Qc2 |
Wanting to avoid the knight pin after ...Bg4 but better was probably: 20. Ra1 ..Bg4 21. Rxa7 .. Bxf3 22. Qxf3 .. Qxf3 23. gxf3 ..Rxc3 when White should probably hold the draw. | ||||
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