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ANNOTATED GAME
League division D2
garner (1427) vs. ecfchamps2002 (1606)
Annotated by: ecfchamps2002 (1200)
Chess opening: Caro-Kann defence (B10)
garner (1427) vs. ecfchamps2002 (1606)
Annotated by: ecfchamps2002 (1200)
Chess opening: Caro-Kann defence (B10)
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1. e4 |
This game was littered with blunders and errors. Fritz 8 analysis spit out nearly 2 pages of analysis and variations. | ||||
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1... c6 |
I play the Caro-Kann, as I do about 90% of the time. It's the only defense I feel comfortable with and actually understand pretty well. | ||||
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2. e5 |
Usually White's second move is d4, I don't know why he chose to move this pawn again. | ||||
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2... d5 3. d4 |
And now we've transposed back into the Advance Variation. | ||||
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3... Bf5 4. Bd2 |
Most of the time, White goes with Nc3 or Bd3 here. Bd2 seems pointless, as we are about to find out. | ||||
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4... e6 5. Be2 |
Very conservative opening from White, doesn't seem to be interested in making trades straight away. | ||||
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5... Qb6 6. Be3 |
A blunder. White only focuses on the d4 pawn and doesn't notice the b2 pawn (which was my goal). Bc3 was the best move here. | ||||
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6... Qxb2 7. Nd2 Bxc2 8. Qc1 Qxc1+ |
Fritz shows Ba3 to be the move here instead of trading Queens. I remember thinking about this move for a long time and the only option I could come up with was trading Queens. | ||||
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9. Rxc1 Bg6 |
I knew the Bishop would be useless on a4 so I kept it on the b1-h7 diagonal with this move. | ||||
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10. Ngf3 Bb4 |
In the Caro-Kann, I normally aim for making the c5 pawn move and taking back with my dark-square Bishop. This wasn't an option since White has his Bishop protecting it. Thanks to the capture of the c-and-b pawns, I developed my Bishop here. | ||||
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11. O-O Ne7 |
I love putting my Knight from e7 to f5 and controlling the Kingside with it... | ||||
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12. Nh4 |
...but my opponent squashes those ideas by taking my Bishop. Of course I could've moved Bishop to f5 and made the trade that way, but I wanted to develop another piece, rather than worrying about putting my Knight on the exact square I wanted... | ||||
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12... Nd7 13. Nxg6 Nxg6 |
...g6 still isn't a bad square for this piece but it's not as active as I would like. | ||||
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14. Rcb1 Bxd2 15. Bxd2 b5 |
Fritz recommends ...b6 here instead of b5, and I agree. With b6, I would still have the flexibility of ...c5. | ||||
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16. Rfc1 |
And now, White makes me pay for it with an attack on the backward pawn. | ||||
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16... Rc8 |
A horrible move, and the worst part of it is that I didn't even see the pin. | ||||
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17. Bxb5 O-O 18. Bxc6 |
I had no choice but to allow White's regain of his two pawns. | ||||
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18... Nb6 19. Ba5 Nc4 |
Had to put the Knight on its outpost. | ||||
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20. Bb7 Rcb8 21. Bc7 Nd2 |
Another blunder...I figured I'd just cut my losses, never seeing the Nf4 move which would've kept it even. | ||||
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22. Rb2 |
I think White must've given me too much credit here not to take the Rook. It's the same conservative strategy we saw in the opening from White. | ||||
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