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ANNOTATED GAME
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kingstuart (1491) vs. maten8 (1486)
Annotated by: kingstuart (1200)
Chess opening: Bird's opening (A03)
kingstuart (1491) vs. maten8 (1486)
Annotated by: kingstuart (1200)
Chess opening: Bird's opening (A03)
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1. f4 |
Birds Opening | |||||
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1... d5 |
Standard responce. most players will revert to basic opening principals when facing an unfamiliar opening. this move is follows those principals pretty well. | |||||
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2. e3 |
Whites plan is to control the central dark squares with both pawns and his fianchettoed dark square bishop | |||||
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2... c5 |
the position is now a reversed dutch setup. this must be good for white as this is totally playable as black, white just needs to find a useful move for the extra tempo. | |||||
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3. Nf3 Nc6 4. b3 e6 |
leaving the bishop inside the pawn chain. slightly passive but by no means bad, the light squared bishop can often find useful employment on the queenside. | |||||
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5. Bb2 Nf6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Ne2 |
as the position is quite closed white can afford to reposition this knight this early in the game | |||||
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7... O-O 8. Ng3 Bd7 9. Bd3 |
now black has castled white starts pointing his pieces at the enemy kingside | |||||
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9... a6 |
white has declared his intentions to play on the kingside so black starts expanding on the queenside | |||||
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10. O-O |
white moves his king out of the centre and puts a rook on the f-file which is likely to become at least half open during the course of the game. | |||||
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10... b5 11. c4 |
?! white attacks the black queenside pawns along with the black centre | |||||
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11... Nb4 |
this way black will have the bishop pair to compensate for his weak c pawn when he opens the game up with exchanges on c4 | |||||
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12. Qb1 |
? should have moved the bishop, i missed the nice little tactic white has after exchanging the bishop | |||||
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12... Nxd3 13. Qxd3 Bc6 |
? threatening to exchange queens when the position opens up which will give black the d file for one of his rooks which will then point at whites weak d-pawn. however black could bag a pawn here by 13...dxc4 14.bxc4 bxc4 when Qxc4 runs into Bb5 although black might have trouble holding on to it in the long run black will definatly get a better position after white tries to win the pawn back | |||||
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14. Ne5 |
simple way to counter the threat, forcing the bishop to retreat and preventing any future skewering of the queen and rook with Bb5 | |||||
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14... Be8 15. Rac1 |
? i think Qe2 was required here, black has a definate plus after dxc4 | |||||
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15... Qa5 |
once again black is reluctant to relieve the central tension. note that the queen isn't actually threatening the a pawn as after Qxa2 Ra1 followed by Rfb1 traps the stray queen | |||||
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16. Rc2 |
now that dxc4 is no threat i decide im going to double rooks on the c file and then open the centre in a way favourable to myself as it seems inevitable that the game will soon become quite open | |||||
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16... Rd8 |
renewing the threat of dxc4 | |||||
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17. Bc3 |
?! prehaps not the most productive move, it just gives black the chance to reposition his queen | |||||
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17... b4 |
?! blocking up the position surely favours white even though black has a space advantage it is difficult to exploit in a closed position. | |||||
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