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ANNOTATED GAME
French defence - Alekhine-Chatard
starkestaffan (1725) vs. claespiper (1456)
Annotated by: claespiper (1724)
Chess opening: French (C13), Albin-Alekhine-Chatard attack
starkestaffan (1725) vs. claespiper (1456)
Annotated by: claespiper (1724)
Chess opening: French (C13), Albin-Alekhine-Chatard attack
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I just have to share this game with you as it contains one of the more beautiful knight moves I have seen (at this level of play). If you got to loose, this is the way to do it. This is a postmortem annotation but I will give you my thoughts at the time as well as some retrospect comments. | |||||
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1. e4 |
This is my first mini-tournament I have played on Gameknot. I wanted to choose a thematic one to try out new openings instead of my standard king pawn opening... Real play doesn't start after 6. h4 | ||||
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1... e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 |
Here is the start of the theme named French defence - Alekhine-Chatard. | ||||
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6... Bxg5 |
There is the book way and the greedy-pawn-grabber way. I choose the greedy-pawn-grabber way and got hammered badly as you will see. | ||||
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7. hxg5 |
White retakes and opens up a lane for the rook at h-file. | ||||
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7... Qxg5 |
Here comes the greedy queen. To my defense I must say that I choose to be greedy just to see if I could get away with it. This was the fourth game in the tournament and I had lots of more games to play so I wanted to find out if this line was any good. It's not any good ;-) | ||||
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8. Qd3 |
White has a smart Queen. She develops with a threat. It took me a while to see Rxh7 (or to be truthful I only saw it after consulting the online DB...). | ||||
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8... h6 |
The easiest response. But I should have considered Qg7 trying to remove whites best offensive weapon, but at the time I just whipped out the pawn. | ||||
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9. Nh3 |
Developing with threat. Bringing another attacker on to the king side. | ||||
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9... Qe7 |
White has four pieces developed. Three of them aimed at the king side, and can castle long at any given time. Black has two pieces barely developed and is no where close to castle to safety (i.e. queen side). | ||||
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10. Qg3 |
Threating again and moving aside so another piece can join the attack. | ||||
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10... g6 |
You know now how I react to threats to take my pawns. I push them, making them weaker... | ||||
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11. Bd3 |
Look who took the queens place. The white bishop. Now white has five against two. What a bully ;-) | ||||
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11... Nf8 |
Here I am afraid of a sac on g6 attacking the king which is still in the middle. But the text isolates my own rook at h8. This is an important feature, keep it in mind. The text move is lousy. I know... At this point I should have given up the defense of the g-pawn and started running the other way with my king (i.e. queen side). | ||||
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12. Nf4 |
Three guys hitting g6 and I start to get seriously worried. | ||||
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12... f5 |
Hit back (I was thinking at the time), expecting exf e.p. and when I retake with my queen she is closer to the action. | ||||
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13. exf6 e.p. |
As I expected. | ||||
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13... Qxf6 |
And now my queen acts as a defender and is not only a passive bystander. | ||||
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14. O-O-O |
White castles to safety and develops another piece. That half open e-file with the backward pawn looks very tempting... Black is still nowhere close castling. Any votes for a short castle? No? I didn't think so ;-) | ||||
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14... Nc6 |
Usually you should try to move c5 before the knight, but I wanted to castle badly! | ||||
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15. Nb5 |
White attacks the weak pawn at c7. | ||||
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