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ANNOTATED GAME
When You Have to Win
yttrio (1650) vs. driss (1527)
Annotated by: yttrio (1533)
Chess opening: French (C10), Paulsen variation
yttrio (1650) vs. driss (1527)
Annotated by: yttrio (1533)
Chess opening: French (C10), Paulsen variation
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13... Nxh4 14. c3 |
Removing the threat of black trading down material. If I start trading down material, my chances of a successful attack dwindle. | ||||||||
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14... Be7 15. g3 |
Continuing to push away his minor pieces from my position. | ||||||||
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15... Ng6 |
Black is now defensive and a bit restricted. However, there's still potential for counterplay from black on the queenside. | ||||||||
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16. Nf3 |
Edging my pieces toward the kingside and eyeing the g5 square. A knight on g5 would attack the currently undefended pawn on e6 (though he only needs to move his knight on d7 to defend it with the light-square bishop). | ||||||||
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16... a6 |
Preparing to expand and generate play on the queenside with c6-c5. 16) ... c5 is impossible because the pawn on b5 would hang. | ||||||||
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17. Kh1 |
At first glance, this move looks sort of odd. However, it's all part of my kingside attack. If I can put a rook on g1 and play g3-g4, I can start to bust open the kingside. | ||||||||
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17... c5 |
Continuing with the plan of expanding on the queenside. | ||||||||
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18. Rfg1 |
I'm not worried about the queenside, however. I'm focusing my energy lining everything up for a kingside attack. Of course, I can't ignore the queenside, but I looked and didn't see any tactical shots he had on the queenside. | ||||||||
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18... Bb7 |
Finally developing the light-square bishop and connecting rooks on the back rank. In the abstract, it also lines up his bishop with my knight (which is currently undefended) as well as my king, so I have to be wary of potential tactics. | ||||||||
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19. g4 |
The only possible bishop tactics I saw for black existed if I capured his c5-pawn with my d4-pawn, so I went ahead with my plan of attacking the kingside. | ||||||||
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19... fxg4 |
Black doesn't have much choice. No matter what happens I will have the g-file to work with for my rooks. If he allows 20) gxf5 exf5, I will have a protected passed pawn on e5 and I will still have the g-file open. However, 19) ... fxg4 has its own downsides, as shown in the annotation for the next move. | ||||||||
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20. Rxg4 |
I now threaten to win a pawn with 21) Bxg6 hxg6 22) Rxg6. The only way to defend the pawn would be 22) ... Kf7, after which I still win the pawn after 23) Rag1, attacking the pawn once more. Black cannot defend g6 enough. | ||||||||
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20... b4 |
My opponent does not wish to bring his king out into the open, so he decides to continue with his counter-attack on the queenside. | ||||||||
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21. Bxg6 |
Again, I saw nothing dangerous about his queenside counterplay, so I took my chance to win a pawn. | ||||||||
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21... hxg6 22. Rxg6 |
Now I'm up material and have plans of doubling rooks on the g-file to continue the attack. | ||||||||
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22... Kf7 |
This attacks my rook and prepares to move his king away from the now-open kingside. | ||||||||
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23. Rag1 |
I now threaten to win a second pawn. | ||||||||
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23... Rfg8 |
The only way to defend the pawn. | ||||||||
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24. f5 |
A nastly little trap. If black plays 24) exf5, then I immediately counter with 25) e5 , winning his knight. The move 24) f5 also prepares to bring my bishop into the attack and threatens his pawn on e6. | ||||||||
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24... Nf8 |
The only move. I saw this move when I played f5 and had my response planned out. | ||||||||
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