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ANNOTATED GAME
Who needs a queen!
vehake (1416) vs. agentsparrow (1487)
Annotated by: agentsparrow (1200)
Chess opening: Benko's opening (A00)
vehake (1416) vs. agentsparrow (1487)
Annotated by: agentsparrow (1200)
Chess opening: Benko's opening (A00)
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1. g3 |
A less common opening. | |||||
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1... g6 |
I tend to mirror the less common openings at first just to keep things balanced as I am still learning. | |||||
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2. Bg2 Bg7 3. c3 Nf6 4. Qb3 |
A somewhat early queen move. | |||||
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4... Nc6 |
Continuing to develop as well as thinking about a way to trap the emerged queen. Knight is one move from putting queen in jeopardy. | |||||
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5. Nh3 |
Knights on the edge are typically weak. This one ends up re-moving too much. | |||||
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5... O-O 6. O-O d6 |
I was thinking about 7 ... Be6 as another way to get at the queen. | |||||
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7. d4 |
This move prevents my 7 ... Be6 because 8 d5 would fork the bishop and knight while the pawn is protected by the bishop at g2 and the queen. I would end up losing a minor piece, even if I tried to counter attack the queen with Na5. Qb5 would make sure of that. | |||||
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7... d5 |
If I hadn't done this 8 d5 would probably have been the next move. | |||||
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8. Nd2 e6 9. Nf4 |
Trying to get his knight off the wall. | |||||
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9... b6 |
Making room for the bishop. As well as protecting the a5 square. | |||||
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10. e4 |
Looks like the battle starts here. | |||||
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10... dxe4 11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Na5 |
Bb7 was probably a better move but I felt like being adventurous and like I said before I wanted to play with the white queen. | |||||
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13. Qb4 Bb7 14. Bd3 |
Some people are afraid to trade pieces. I think trading bishops would have been a better move. Instead this gives me line of sight to the king's corner. | |||||
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14... Rc8 |
Preparing for a c5 push. | |||||
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15. Be3 |
Kind of takes the wind out of the c5 push. | |||||
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15... g5 |
The queen on d5 would be a nice move so let's make that knight hop around. | |||||
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16. Ne2 g4 |
I could have moved the queen to d5 now but I thought this move puts the pawn in a nice advanced position. Claiming h3 and f3. | |||||
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17. Nf4 e5 |
Need to move the knight again. | |||||
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18. Nh5 |
Trading pawns might have been better for white but instead the knight is moved back to the wall. | |||||
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18... Qd5 |
Threatening checkmate. | |||||
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