Annotated chess game: League division D3

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League division D3
skeeterss0 (1298) vs. jwilb2514384 (1433)
Annotated by: jwilb2514384 (1200)
Chess opening: Sicilian defence (B20)

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Look at my rating and you will know that this is not an authoritative annotation on this game. It is simply my thoughts as I progressed through the game. As I happened to lose this game, I humbly submit my blunders for others to learn from.

1. e4 c5

Choosing the Sicilian dragon.

2. Bc4

A very anti-sicilian move

2... Nc6 3. Nc3 Ne5

This was a lame move. Obviously, my opponent sees the threat on the bishop. A better move would be e6 blocking the f7 square and setting up a possible d5 pawn thrust. Also, by moving my knight, I not only lost pressure on d4 but also encouraged white to move to d4 putting pressure on my wayward knight.

4. Bb3 Nf6

When I was playing this game I thought this looked okay because it looked similar to the Yugoslav attack with the noteworthy exception that my opponent was not playing the Sicilian dragon. Such Naivete.

5. d3

My opponent is starting to take control of the center.

5... e6

Finally, the move I should have done 2 turns ago. Too late now.

6. Bg5 h6

This is a weeker move that Be7. Correct me if I'm wrong chess experts, but I believe h6 weekens the pawn structure should I decide to castle on kingside while the Be7 provides the same pin-break without troubling the pawns.

7. Bh4

Case in point, the pin is still there despite h6.

7... Be7

This is now the second time I have made a decent move but a turn or two late. You will see how much it will cost me.

8. f4

Now this is where things start to turn bad. It is also, where I started focusing all my energies to get out of this jam.

8... Ng6

Here I thought, Ng6 could lead to chasing away the bishop and provide a good defense should the pawns come forward. I believe a better move would have been to move him back to c3. It would have at least opened up space on the kingside.

9. Bg3 d6 10. Qe2 d5

My bid to start to control the center.

11. e5 Nd7 12. Nf3 Nb6 13. a3 d4 14. Ne4 f5

I feel like this was one of my first decent moves in the game. I made a good step at controlling the center here while the en passant means he gave up a key central square that was really annoying me. The downside was that it weekened my kingside. In retrospect maybe I should have worked on castling.

15. exf6 e.p. gxf6 16. Nh4 Nxh4 17. Bxh4 f5

I loved this move attacking 2 pieces at once. I really thought that at this point I had gotten out of a bad jam.

18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19. O-O-O fxe4

I was so ambitious to take the knight and the lead that I didn't take much time to consider that Bd7 and queen-side castling might have been the safer option as my opponents king was safe from harm.

20. Qxe4 a5 21. Rde1 Kd8 22. c4 a4 23. Bd1 h5

To stop that bishop from tripleteaming the pawn from the other side of the board.

24. f5 e5

Didn't have much of a choice here. I had to keep that pawn alive to blockade the e-file. I assumed he would just trade queens. I suppose I could have checked his king with Qg5 and then tried taking the f4 pawn with mine and the queen would provide cover. Probably would have been the better move.

25. Kc2 Nd7

I've commited myself to that pawn now.

26. g4 Nf6 27. Qg2 Rg8 28. h3 Ra6

I wanted to activate that Rook somehow. Rh2 would have at least protected the pawn and allowed me to release the bishop. I think I rushed through these moves more than I should have.

29. g5 b6

The goal was to fiachetto the bishop to attack the queen. Bad move because it isolated my rook from any action whatsoever. Terrible!

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