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ANNOTATED GAME
one of the worst locks I've suffered!
deaconsfan21 vs. damalfi
Annotated by: damalfi (1200)
Chess opening: Scandinavian (centre counter) defence (B01)
deaconsfan21 vs. damalfi
Annotated by: damalfi (1200)
Chess opening: Scandinavian (centre counter) defence (B01)
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This is a game I played horribly. Period. I share it because I wanted to lay down all the (wrong) thought that made me lose miserably. Maybe this can teach something to someone, because normally the startegies I mention here gave me a lot of victories, still... not this time! But the game contains some funny position is better to know, just to avoid them... | ||||||
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1. e4 d5 2. d3 |
One of the worst moves. | |||||
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2... dxe4 3. Nc3 |
Whites realizes it is not good to exchange, so tries another strategy. | |||||
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3... Nf6 |
Exchanging the pawn will only favour his developement, so I choosed this one instead. | |||||
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4. dxe4 |
Strangely enough. | |||||
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4... Qxd1+ 5. Nxd1 |
White saves the castilng right at a cost of a central pawn. This is very interesting, and should provide black an edge. Let's see... | |||||
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5... Nxe4 6. f3 Nf6 |
Maybe wrong. Nc4 would have prevented my own pawn or dsb to get there. But maybe this was a wrong approach to the position. | |||||
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7. Ne3 |
Just ok. | |||||
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7... e5 |
And this was maybe a mistake. I've seen no point in developing while my dsb was caught in, and castling was near. And I didn't like e6 because it blocks my own bishop. | |||||
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8. Bd3 Bb4+ |
If I can provoke c3, maybe he will find difficult to develop his dsb. | |||||
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9. c3 Bc5 10. b4 Bb6 |
Chasing me. I thought it was ok, since he opens his king too. I was wrong. | |||||
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11. Nf5 |
I didn't see it. I cannot castle, because of a fork check. Hmpfff.... clever (I was starting to tell myself how stupid I was). | |||||
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11... Bxf5 |
Not a nice thing to do, but I thought that it was the best, under the circumstances. But in an open position like this, the bishop pair was far more important that I thought. I was far to think my Nb8 wouldn't have been able to develop for so many moves on. | |||||
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12. Bxf5 g6 |
This was a mistake, because my dsb can't defend the king. I thought about it, but I believed that with no support in sight, this wouldn't have been a problem for me. I was wrong. | |||||
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13. Bd3 O-O |
The fatal mistake. I calculated that if Bg5, Kg7, and if Bh6, the rook was about to leave anyway, so no problem. I overlooked my own attacking possibilities instead. Castling, as I often remember to myself, is a loss of time. It may be convenient, but not always. In this case, 1) the "threat" Bg5 would only have helped me to develop my other knight. No need to castle. 2) the Bh6 prevents me from castling, but I could have thought about the game with both kings in the center - always interesting., with Ke7 (Bg5, Nd7 should hold). 3) I had to develop. Piece developement, I mean. The rook that cames out of castling is ok, but the knight has to came out soon. 4) I had my own attack too! I told I accepted my bishop chase because I wanted him to weaken his pawns. So why not Nd5 at once, before he can go a3? White has to defend with the bishop (in b2 by force, or Ne3), and I have a tempo to spend improving my position. | |||||
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14. Bh6 |
Ok, no problem. I have to care for a back rank mate, that's all. I'll do it. | |||||
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14... Rd8 |
Another mistake, since white can defend by castling. It was necessary to coordinate the rook with the Nd4 plan. Now, think that I talk about Nd5 in spite of: Be4 because in that case, c6 (and not Nxc3?, Bxb7!). This would have been good for me, a fight instead of a much more terrible "lock". | |||||
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15. O-O-O |
It was "now or never" the last chance to develop the knight, believe it or not. | |||||
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15... c5 |
I didn't, since I wanted to be sure I had some control of the center, not blocking my own pawn with the knight... and all this garbage. It is very easy to learn concepts, but it is not so easy to know when to apply them, or more accurately, to give each one the right "weight". | |||||
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16. b5 |
So guy, where do you plan to develop the knight? To d7? With what future? I had to open some space for it. | |||||
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16... Ba5 17. c4 |
Well, so I have b6 for the knight. What a wonderful spot for it, isn't it? And I precluded myself the Nd4 move, in addition. Wonderful! :-/. | |||||
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