Annotated chess game: 70th GK tournament

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ANNOTATED GAME

70th GK tournament
topofstack (1307) vs. zstocka (1307)
Annotated by: topofstack (1529)
Chess opening: Philidor's defence (C41)

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1. e4	A short game, mate with no captures. A good reminder that the point of the game is checkmate not capturing pieces.



1... e5 2. Nf3 d6	Book opening, Philidor's Defense.



3. Nc3 Nc6	We move both our knights out.



4. Bb5	A move my knight to b5, pinning his knight on c6 for the moment.



4... Bd7	He moves up his bishop to unpin the knight.



5. d3	d3 to open up my queenside bishop.



5... Nge7	An interesting, though not unusual, move. Ne7 provides an alternative if I decide to swap pieces at c6. On the down side, a number of his pieces are temporarily blocked.



6. Bg5	Moving my bishop to g5 effectively pins his e7 knight until he can move the queen out of danger.
	2 comments black_cat_hamlet (1531) on 25-Jun-10: Black can solve this easily with f6... his dsb already looks like it could be a problem jestey1 (1756) on 26-Jun-10: ...f6 is a cure worse than the disease here, thanks to the weakened light squares around Black's King. Better is ...Nb4, in order to trade Bishops and make space for the Queen to move to d7, away from the pin. White is still better after this, though. Black should have played ...Be7 and ...Nf6 instead of ...Ne7, and White punished him accordingly.


6... a6 7. Ba4	He presents an attack, and I move back.



7... b5 8. Bb3	He pushes the attack and has me retreating a bit.



8... g6	Since his pieces are somewhat stuck, he moves his G pawn out to get his king bishop in play.



9. Nh4	A move my knight off of f3. My goal is to move my queen on to f3 for a possible mate. A bit obvious because...



9... Nd4	He answers by moving his knight to block the move.



10. Nd5	Honestly, I could have done Nd5 on my previous turn instead of moving the other knight. Perhaps the delay distracted my opponent long enough so that he doesn't see my next move.



10... c6	My opponent doesn't see the mate I have next turn and decides to chase my knight away by moving his C pawn. I was honestly expecting him to move his bishop to C6, but ultimately, that wouldn't have prevented mate. At this point, he really needs to do Bg7, move his queen, or F5. Probably the best move would have been Bg7, since he was probably trying to develop that way anyway.



11. Nf6#	Checkmate with 1 piece. No captures. My opponent has unwisely surrounded his king with his own pieces.