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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): I was privileged and honoured to be able to play the beautiful and talented young player, Women International Master, Priyanka K in a game recently. I have asked for Gameknot to give a computer analysis on this game, and I will use that analysis in my annotations. As we shall see, Gameknot thinks that I made two errors. But for my opponent, Gameknot thinks she played a faultless game, an amazing … |
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Annotated by jasonakay (1200): This is a game that I played while reading "Kasparov's winning chess tactics: how he thinks, how he chooses" by Bruce Pandolfini, which started me thinking about the unexpected moves and complex combinations employed by Kasparov and trying to find a way to do similar things (albeit at my much more limited skill level). In this game, a pair of sacrifices turned what looked to be a slow, drawn out … |
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Annotated by cplusplus11 (1704): The Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) is a very common pawn structure in many openings, such as the Queen's Gambit, the Nimzo-Indian, the Queen's Indian, and the Caro-Kann. Simply put, the Isolated Queen Pawn is a dynamic strength and a static weakness. One side accepts the weak isolated pawn and the weak squares in front of the pawn, for outposts on c5 and e5 and a potential kingside attack. In this… |
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Annotated by elyhim (1200): This game features excellent middle game strategies and endgame technique This is a very stable setup for black. If he can manage to keep the centre fixed then it will more then likely end in a draw. A very sharp way to continue that offers white a host of possible attacks !? more than likely inferior to Nbd7 or Be7 but I was looking for quick tactical chances after Bxf6. before playing… |
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Annotated by elyhim (1200): An excellently play game by boths sides. White does well to avoid the exchange of queens and black one too many pawn moves. In hindsight I think 32...g6 is the move of improvement.
geniusacamel plays the classical QGD varation which is a favoriate of mine. For the time being white focuses on develop king safety before embarking on attacking in the centre.
Black plays ...h6 which is… |
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Annotated by rafias (2066): In this match we will see a good example of a king side attack. Queen's gambit The intention here is to undermine the black's center. Now the d5pawn is under attack. Of course if 11... Qxd5?? then 12. Bxh7 . But here my main intention was to target the black King and the knight was already aiming to e7. Black tries to counter by attacking the queen side. By forcing black to… |
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Annotated by nemesis1010 (1754): I've picked this for annotation because I found it quite an intriguing example of how a game can turn on one move - it's not intended a a technical analysis, just my thoughts and observations. The title of it is nothing more than a reflection of the rivalry I share with my mate, Blackbaron. Although Blackbaron and myself average out at similar ratings, he always seems to be significantly ahead… |
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Annotated by deejie (1233): better perhaps Nc3/Qc2 as behind in development again, development is v.poor forced, pretty much fair enough - to pressure N & protect e4 pawn... however ... I then move e4 pawn? - still behind in development
Should have strengthened centre & castled Bb5?? B on g5 att2, def1 !!!
Better BxBe7,QxB;BxNc6,bxc6;0-0... ... no choice really -p… |
