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ANNOTATED GAME
44th GK tournament
stringplayer92 (1701) vs. tobiasverhulst (1801)
Annotated by: stringplayer92 (1200)
Chess opening: Ruy Lopez (C97), closed, Chigorin, Yugoslav system
stringplayer92 (1701) vs. tobiasverhulst (1801)
Annotated by: stringplayer92 (1200)
Chess opening: Ruy Lopez (C97), closed, Chigorin, Yugoslav system
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1. e4 |
Stringplayer92 (annotator) (1701) ---- tobiasverhulst (1801) 44th Gameknot Tournament This game features many different material imbalances, errors, plans, and tactics. I started with 1.e4. I just recently switched from the Reti, so the Classical variations are very different compared to what I am used to. | |||||
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1... e5 |
He responded with the symmetrical 1...e5, turning down the opportunity to play the Sicilian. This gives me some information as to what type of player he is and how he regards me. | |||||
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2. Nf3 |
I continue with 2.Nf3 heading for the Ruy Lopez, as the King's Gambit is too risky. These seem to me the only reasonable moves in this position as a move like 2.Nc3 in the Vienna, hands the initiative to black and loses the "advantage" of white being first to move. | |||||
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2... Nc6 |
No Russian game for him. | |||||
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3. Bb5 |
The technical beginning of the Ruy Lopez. | |||||
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3... a6 |
I personally play the Berlin wall, 3...Nf6 in order to push white out of their known lines, and because I think that black is actually comes out better in the queen-less endgame (I have some bias, as I beat my first expert with the Berlin). | |||||
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4. Ba4 |
I like to test my opponents on their opening lines in correspondence since it is easy to find mistakes... So I don't go for the simpler exchange variation (4.Bxc6). | |||||
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4... Nf6 5. O-O Be7 |
He does not take the chance to play the open, so I know I am going to have to use the "Spanish torture" and try and positionally squeeze black. (That does not happen at all...) | |||||
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6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d6 9. h3 |
All main line, we are in the Chigorin closed Ruy Lopez. | |||||
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9... Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 |
Still main line.... | |||||
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12... Bd7 13. Nf1 |
This is a common theme in the Spanish. The knight can go to g3 then f4, or e3 and help control the central squares. | |||||
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13... cxd4 14. cxd4 |
He opens the c-file, from which he will conduct his operations on the queen side. | |||||
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14... Rac8 15. Ne3 |
The tension remains in the center, as neither player wants to have to take. If black takes he will be left with a queen backwards pawn on an open file. | |||||
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15... Rfe8 |
Almost always good to develop rooks to files that might open up soon. | |||||
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16. b3 |
Trying to activate my queenside, maybe not the best move. | |||||
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16... Nc6 17. d5 |
I finally close the center. Maybe it was best to keep the tension with Bb2, but after Nb4 I am getting a little tied up. | |||||
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17... Nb4 18. Bd3 |
The white bishop is bad here. Also my position seems a little cramped !? (Even though I have more space in the center...) so I will try to trade pieces to relieve this. | |||||
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18... a5 |
He advances his queen side. So far I have been so distracted with the queen side, I can't conduct any of my own plans. So much for the Spanish torture. | |||||
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19. Bb2 |
Finally developing that bishop. Now if only I could get my rook out | |||||
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19... g6 |
This was a strange plan by black to get space on the King side with f5. | |||||
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