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ANNOTATED GAME

Nutmeg Of Consolation VII
lethalia (1280) vs. acrewboy02 (1250)
Annotated by: acrewboy02 (1192)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn game (A45)
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1. d4
I chose to annotate this game because i played better in it, in terms of sacrifices and maintaining my agressive stance than in any other game i've played... Although i'll admit i made some mistakes as well .... I'm playing black Big thanks to my opponent lethalia for the fun game

 
1... Nf6 2. h3
not a very agressive second move, i think this negates most of his advantage as white.... a recurrant theme for white in the beginning of this game seems to be defensive moves

 
2... d5 3. Bf4 Nc6 4. e3 e6 5. a3
looks like my knights arn't going anywhere anytime very agressive anytime soon

 
5... Bd6
the advantage for white of his pawn structure severly limits my dark bishop ... so i offer to trade for his

 
6. Bh2
offer declined.... but in such a way as to prevent a break in his pawn structure

 
6... Ne4
what was i thinking here? if he plays f3, i have to retreat, but the knight on his kingside will only be able to go to e2, perhaps i should have made a more agressive decision

 
7. Nf3 Bxh2
i should have traded bishops before making that last move in order to prevent him from castling and to cause him to waste a move getting his rook back to his back rank.... hindsight is 20 20

 
8. Nxh2 Qf6
i want to position my queen activly on the kingside but i don't choose a very good spot

 
9. Ng4
good move by white... i obviously chose the wrong square for that queen last move

 
9... Qf5 10. Be2
better might be d3 to pin my knight to my queen

 
10... b6 11. O-O
at this point i think my pieces are slightly more active but i don't really have a difinative plan to penetrate his defences

 
11... h5
i was trying to force his knight to h2...

 
12. f3
i see where he is going with this....

 
12... hxg4 13. fxg4
ah.... discovered attack on my queen and opening a file kingside..... thing is i haven't castled yet.... I really expected fxe4! here, with the same dicovered attack.... he could have followed that up with Bx4 to prevent me from fully opening the H file

 
13... Qg5
i had 4 moves to choose from and i've got vague plans of attacking along the h file

 
14. Rf3 Bb7 15. Qf1 f6 16. Ba6 Bxa6 17. Qxa6 Na5
this move loses a pawn if white plays Qb7, but i couldn't fid a better continuation.... his move had suprised me as it seemed he was planning an attack kingside

 
18. Qe2 O-O-O
this is probably not a good idea but i know that he can't mate me with just his queen and i'm planning a big attack on kingside .... i figure if his queen is distracted long enough.....

 
19. Qa6+ Kb8
i was planning Kb8 anyways.... distraction achieved

 
20. b4
looks like he is going to counterattack on queenside

 
20... Nb7
Nc6 is answered by b5 so this was my only logical move

 

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