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ANNOTATED GAME
Attack! E61 King's Indian defence, 3.Nc3
Sarasani (-) vs. Umashankar (1412)
Annotated by: sarasani (1868)
Chess opening: King's Indian (E91), 6.Be2
Sarasani (-) vs. Umashankar (1412)
Annotated by: sarasani (1868)
Chess opening: King's Indian (E91), 6.Be2
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1. d4 |
I played this game at my local chessclub. My opponent needed a win for promotion and actually I thought I was lost allready since I'd had only four hours of decent sleep the previous night! | ||||
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1... Nf6 2. c4 g6 |
With the kingside fianchetto black aims his bishop on the central squares e5 and d4, where the pressure on d4 can soon be increased by playing ...e5 or ...c5. | ||||
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3. Nc3 |
Forcing black to make a commitment, as to wether to play the Gruenfeld, or to play 3..Bg7, allowing white to play the move e4, wich would stop the Gruenfeld. | ||||
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3... Bg7 |
3..d5 would have entered the Gruenfeld defence. | ||||
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4. e4 |
The King's Indian defence is a very tricky opening wich can lead to some nice chances for black when handled improperly by white. This is often based on the strength of the bishop along the diagonal. | ||||
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4... d6 |
It's not easy for white to find the right defence against black's setup, mostly because this opening has so many variations, wich can only be compared to the Sicilian defence. | ||||
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5. Nf3 |
5.f3 is also very common, planning on castling queenside and using the kingside pawns for the attack. At the post-mortem my opponent told me he always plays 5.f3 when playing white in this opening. | ||||
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5... O-O |
The most common continuation. | ||||
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6. Be2 |
Straight from the book. | ||||
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6... c5 |
...e5 is played more often. | ||||
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7. d5 |
The 'best' move here. | ||||
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7... Nfd7 |
?! Black is not wasting time and wants to play ...f5 as soon as possible and open the c-file for attacking chances. Still, 7...e6 would have been much stronger. | ||||
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8. Bd2 |
8. O-O was also playable, but eventually I decided to develop my bishop first and avoid the doubled pawns after 8....Bxc3 9.bxc3. | ||||
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8... f5 |
As expected. | ||||
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9. Qc1 |
? I must admit this is a strange move and this shows I was rather tired. I was looking for something like 10.Bh6 Bxh6 11.Qxh6. Better would have been simply 9.exf5 | ||||
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9... Ne5 |
Black must move the knight on d7 again in order to develop his bishop. | ||||
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10. O-O |
I now think 10.Nxe5 followed by 11.exf5 would have been stronger, but I was looking to complicate things a little. | ||||
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10... fxe4 11. Nxe4 Bf5 12. Neg5 |
With the treat of a possible fork on e6. | ||||
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12... Nbd7 |
My opponent spent 15 minutes before making this move! I then spent quite some time myself before making my next move since I immediately saw he was either trying to provoke 13.Nh4 or he had just missed it and now 'just' developed his knight. | ||||
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13. Nh4 |
I decided to go for it... | ||||
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