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ANNOTATED GAME
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thereaper1 (1125) vs. club player (1733)
Annotated by: thereaper1 (1985)
Chess opening: English, 1...Nf6 (Anglo-Indian defense) (A15)
thereaper1 (1125) vs. club player (1733)
Annotated by: thereaper1 (1985)
Chess opening: English, 1...Nf6 (Anglo-Indian defense) (A15)
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The final round of a club tournament, I had a fairly good tournament and when the ratings are next updated I am expecting I should make a neat jump. In this game I ended up losing a piece for a pawn however after a while I managed to turn it into a real effort.
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1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 c5 |
Turning it into a symmetrical english. A favourite responce of my opponents. | |||||
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3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 e6 |
preparing the thematic d pawn thrust. | |||||
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5. Nf3 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Qb3 |
?! Almost certaintly premature. However I wanted to see how black would respond, I was trying to induce black to over extend. It was also designed to prevent black developing his LSB for a little while. | |||||
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7... Be7 8. d3 |
opening lines for my DSB. | |||||
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8... O-O 9. O-O Na5 |
I'm not too sure about this move. my queen wasn't doing a whole lot and this move only mislaces the knight who will now use a further tempo to get back into the game. I presumed at the time though that maybve this is so black can develop his LSB. | |||||
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10. Qc2 |
It was hard for me to decide which square was better for my queen this one or d1. I went with this because it clears the backrank and eyes down the b1-h7 diagonal. In light of what happened I wonder if the queen would have been better suited on d1. | |||||
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10... Be6 11. Bf4 |
Giving better scope for my bishop. | |||||
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11... Nh5 |
I had wondered if black might try this. It didn't concern me too much. Knights on the rim are dim, well black has both his knights on the edge. | |||||
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12. Bd2 |
Keeping the rooks connected As well as targetting the knight on a5. | |||||
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12... Nc6 |
natural | |||||
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13. Rfd1 |
maybe Rac1 would have been better. | |||||
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13... Rc8 |
Good move. Placing a rook on the same file as the opponents queen is rarely a bad idea, this is emphasised by what happens in a few moves time. | |||||
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14. a3 |
? creates a whopping big whole on b3 I even realised this during the game but played this to keep the knight out of b4, bad desision as the knight coming to b4 was no threat and the knight still had d4 anyway. | |||||
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14... f5 |
also good was the immedaite Nd4. | |||||
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15. e4 |
Deciding I had to make a strike at the centre before my position became to crsmped. | |||||
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15... fxe4 16. dxe4 Nd4 |
! I had realised that blacks best play would be in getting the knihgt to d4 however I had not realised he could play it straight away. Now White cannot take the knight because after cxd4 white will lose the knight on account of the pin to the queen. | |||||
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17. Qd3 |
Qa4 would have covered b3 however it didn't seem clear to me so avoided it. It was probably best. | |||||
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17... Nb3 18. Rab1 |
I did spend a while considering ways of sacking the exchange wit either Nxd5 or exd5 however there were always refutions so I went with this preserving the rook instead. | |||||
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18... c4 19. Qe2 |
? I thought I would eye the knihgt on h5, however this allows white next move. | |||||
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19... Bg4 |
I had wondered if black might play this but I figured it was fine for me, what I mised was that black can bring his knight to d4. | |||||
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