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ANNOTATED GAME
Challenge from immmmm
immmmm (1739) vs. orangutan (1716)
Annotated by: orangutan (1947)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B52), Canal-Sokolsky attack, Bronstein gambit
immmmm (1739) vs. orangutan (1716)
Annotated by: orangutan (1947)
Chess opening: Sicilian (B52), Canal-Sokolsky attack, Bronstein gambit
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1. e4 c5 |
Just prior to this, I had lost to the same opponent trying (as an experiment) to defend the Ruy Lopez. Here I reverted to my normal Sicilian. | ||||
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2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 |
I also often play ...Nd7 here, but last time I played it it led to a very closed position. My idea when playing this variation is to try to transpose to a Dragon with light-squared bishops off. | ||||
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4. Bxd7+ Nxd7 5. d4 |
White transposes immediately to an Open Sicilian, in which however the exchange of light-squared bishops is considered to favour black, especially in the Dragon. Accordingly, I head for the Dragon. | ||||
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5... cxd4 6. Nxd4 Ngf6 7. Nc3 g6 |
Roar! | ||||
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8. O-O |
White goes for a classical dragon rather than the Yugoslav. | ||||
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8... Bg7 9. h3 |
Presumably feeling the absence of a bishop on e2. | ||||
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9... O-O 10. Nb3 Rc8 11. Be3 a6 |
A little precaution to get out of the way of the bishop, but ...a6 is thematic anyway. In some games I have got into trouble through the weakness of b6, but as it happens my "misplaced" knight on d7 has that nicely covered. | ||||
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12. a4 |
I had hoped to provoke this response. It is often good to constrain black in this way, but in this case allows me to take the initiative. | ||||
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12... Rxc3 |
A thematic exchange sacrifice, and the decisive point of the game. In this case black recovers all his material immediately, but I would still have played it anyway. | ||||
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13. bxc3 Nxe4 14. Nd4 Nxc3 15. Qd3 |
I expected Qd2 here, aiming for Bh6. | ||||
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15... Qc7 16. Rae1 |
Presumably aiming at e7, but white's rooks are now very cramped. | ||||
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16... Ne5 |
Now black's knights are about to prove themselves a match for white's rooks. | ||||
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17. Qd2 Nxa4 18. Bh6 |
Now Bh6 is too late, and White will get nothing from the following exchanges. | ||||
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18... Nc4 19. Qc1 Bxd4 20. Bxf8 Kxf8 21. Qh6+ Kg8 22. Re4 Bf6 |
Overprotecting e7 and denying h5 to white's major pieces. | ||||
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23. h4 |
In search of counterplay in the form of a Yugoslav-style pawn storm. | ||||
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23... Nc3 |
Mining several dark squares the moment white's rook leaves the e-file. | ||||
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24. Ree1 Na3 |
The c-pawn cannot be defended except by withdrawing the queen. | ||||
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25. Re3 |
Heading for h3, at the cost however of several tempi by now. | ||||
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25... Nxc2 26. Rh3 Qc5 |
Improving the position of the queen. | ||||
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27. g4 |
Weakening the king's position. | ||||
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