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Annotated by marinvukusic (2161): This is a league game played in 2003. I am putting in on GameKnot because I feel that the game overall (especially opening) is very instructive and shows a good recipe for Black against this rare opening. My opponent was a strong master candidate and one of a few prominent Sokolsky players in Croatia. Fortunately for me, I played against another proponent of this opening (interestingly, also a… |
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Annotated by capablancanot (1873): My name is Jason Capablanca. I play in chess tournaments. I play here on Gameknott too, but I wanted to share a game that I played in a tournament recently. It is interesting because my opponent chose to play an opening that I have not studied, so I had to play my opening moves on the rule of starting a chess game alone. So I was going to have to rely entirely on a better middle-game and endgame… |
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Annotated by rmannstaedt (1899): This is a game I played a little while ago where I neglected the safety of my King - and paid the ultimate price for my folly. Listen close and pay heed, for ultimately this - the safety of the kings - are the alpha and the omega of the game! So this then, though a cautionary tale, should not be read to mean that you should just cover in the corner like a frightened rabbit. Far from it! But it… |
BlitzWhite (1900) vs. Black (2450) Annotated by gmflash2008 (1200): This is a nice little miniature from a recent blitz tournament. White is a promising young American player rated around 1900, and he was playing against an international master from Europe (FIDE 2450ish). The thing i like most about this game is not the deception and the brutal dark square attack, but the pure audacity of whites opening play. 1. b4! 2. b5!! Take that!
Unusual opening move but… |
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Annotated by -nosferatu- (1200): Nosferatu, under the tutelage of Murnau, expresses his game #2. The Sokolsky opening. A wing eccentricity that looks a little ridiculous, though it has more than a bit of poison for the unsuspecting (it's much more sound than say, the Grob). If black plays passively white can eventually transpose into the family of more conventional d4/c4 openings with more queenside space. 1. b4 e5 2. Bb2 Bxb4 … |
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Annotated by belacqua17 (1200): the polish or sokolsky opening establishing a hold on the center offers to trade the pawn on b4 for the pawn on e5 in retrospect, i should really have traded and then continued develping, but this isnt so bad preparing a push to d4 developing, aiming at the queenside attacks the bishop and the pawn on b7 i decide to open the game up and possibly trap his queen in the corner develops the knight… |
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Annotated by cheetah08 (1200): In this game white starts out by playing a risky polish opening:b4 and ends up getting into a worse position almost from the start. Notice how development is even around move 13 but the quality of black's is much better This game should show you how to make sure you don't develop without a plan in mind. White plays the polish opening , gaining queenside space but creating a weak b4 pawn. Black … |
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Annotated by ajgalbraith99 (866): If I were you, I'd watch carefully. black looks like he's doing horrible, but he's just wrapping me up. Don't know where that came from. What's up with that? I thought. So, I brought out my bishop. His first sneaky plan, using the rook as bait. I thought, WOOPIE!, but now I can see that was my biggest mistake. Bishop locks the door to escape. I panicked!!!!! BAM!!! I just murdered another… |
