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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): My season has been pretty bad so far - 5 draws and 1 loss in the 4NCL. At last I get to win a game! I play my trusted Sicilian. He plays the main line. I sometimes also play 2.....Nc6 Aiming for d2-d4. Attacking e4. Defending e4, although there is no danger as 4.....Nxe4 is met with 5. Qa4+ winning the knight on e4. My opponent said afterwards that he should have played 4. h3 Played, before he… |
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Annotated by farhadshawkat (1493): This was my opening game in a minitournament consisting of teammates from Waskally Wabbits and Morose Mooses. I decided to annotate all my games from the competition, as this would also help me to focus more on my games and hopefully cut out most blunders. I can't promise scintillating play, as I'm not that kind of a player. :)
My opponent, Blackbaron, is my most frequent opponent on Gameknot, … |
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Annotated by byakuugan3 (1200): I was Black in this mini-tournament game I prefer the Sicilian over the "principled" e5, since c5 controls the same d4 square with a less important pawn This is "delayed Alapin," rather than normal Alapin where White plays c3 on the second move. I think Alapin is stronger than delayed Alapin since Black can stall d4 unlike if White had played c3 on move 2 There is an opening trap where White… |
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Annotated by klondyke (1200): I played this match with the idea of playing aggressively against a strong opponent to see how i did. Recently i have played well against the Sicilian so was confident of getting into a good position however I decided to play a bit more cavalier and opted for a king side pawn rush that would leave me a pawn down and my king open to counter attacking. The upside to the plan though was i had good… |
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Annotated by blake84120 (1200): Sicilian Defense. This is a ladder game, I'm the challenger looking to move up a handful of rungs here. I frequently see 2. Bc4?! which I consider quite dubious at best. It has a horrible track record in every DB I've seen after 2. ... e6. And yet, 2. Nf3 2. d6 is the main line Sicilian, and now suddenly 3. Bc4 is the best move in the DB. Bc4 on move two, bad, Bc4 on move three, good. What a … |
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Annotated by blitzkov (1200): im sorry to say that that is what what happened. (this was an other-the-board game) a standard move. my standard move. this move is to get black questionably about whether if he should wait for white to go back into the books (like d4) i wait this move is a move for the future so i still went d4. white is slightly better king safety. a standard move for white in the Sicilian !… |
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Annotated by klondyke (1200): Keeping tempi works!
I played this opponent previously and was beaten comfortably due to silly risks and that annoyed me as i thought i was better than that. Thankfully he agreed to a rematch, and this is it. enjoy! When this match was over I conversed with my opponent and he informed me that he "simply threw away an easy win" after 15. Qc3 and that bringing out my queen was a mistake as the… |
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Annotated by jotheblackqueen (1200): Hi everyone - nice just to write about a win for a change. I was playing against a guy called Andy who had a similar rating to myself. Andy played very well but somehow I managed to get a rook onto his second rank and that piggish rook made slop of one of his pawns and eventually more and more material dropped, until I was able to crown my a pawn. Andy resigned on the grounds of ruinous loss… |
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Annotated by mblasco256 (1722): This games i a bout 'a tactical question' in black's move 30. This move changes it all. White Queen is protecting pawn in f4 and impeding 31 ... Qf2 ##, not an easy question.
White Queen still cannot leave its position. The postion is lost. Otherwise 34. ... Qh4 wins the bishop beacuse of 35. ...Qf2 The same as before.
Just a… |
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Annotated by rich_sposato (1823): This is a fast blitz game played played against a player 200 points above me. I see the c5 opening often among people ranked 1500 to 1900, but I don't think it offers any great advantage over other openings. Protecting the white e4 pawn in case black pulls out a knight. Getting ready to castle. As they say, "castle early, castle often". What did I tell you about black pulling out a knight?… |
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Annotated by blitzkov (1200): the Sicilian is a good opening of mine e6 is to cover f7. plan is to go b5 a waste of time. c3 is to go d4 and gain control of the center. looks like hes going to attack my king. if someone attacks on the flanks attack in the center. ? he could have taken on c5. my king is not safe!! ok my king is safer then before. i dont know why he did this? forced to… |
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Annotated by chllin2music (1200): I haven't done much annotation lately so i thought this would be a good match to annotate since this time I'm black. I'm trying to learn a bit more theory on openings and middle games, but to be honest, everyone is bound to develop their own strategies. So, hope you enjoy! Ok, one thing i know is that this opening move 1.. c5 is supposed to unbalance the game, which is true. White now has stake… |
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Annotated by cricketmad5wk (1719): This game was from the 41st Gk tournament. I was already through, but if my opponent beat me then he would qualify also. In this game my opponent did'nt blunder but made some weak moves and was outplayed The dragon is an opening i'm trying to learn so as to play it in competative play The first move that suggests that my opponent doesn't want to play a main line dragon An interesting … |
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Annotated by carnap (1200): This game was played at the Indiana State Team Championships held in Roseland, Indiana. My opponent (playing White) was Josh Baker, a high school student from Elkhart County. During the downtime between rounds I had a chat with my eventual opponent and found out that he has studied some of the theory of the Scotch opening. I decided to avoid a conflict based on theory I was not famliar with so I … |
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Annotated by blitzkov (1200): closed Sicilian. castled early! g6 was to "better guard my king" plan is to go f4 f5 g4 attacked on the queenside threating nxe2+ than Bxa1 this is to get rid of the a3 defender so i can go na3 with a better game ok... na3 rc1 Bb2!? wins the exchange but, my king side is weak !! if with the bishop? no open lines! no way to attack! not now!! the a2 pawn is weak!!! … |
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Annotated by acrewboy02 (1192): I'm from Boston so when i saw that my opponent was a "New York Lovers" member, i decided to put extra time into the games! Also it is my first ever completed game as a member of "The Sneaky Knight Connection"... Thanks to my awesome captain gothicgirl for setting up the game. and we transpose into chess opening the GK database identifies as B88: "Sicilian Sozin, leonhardt variation"… |
