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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): In this game I was holding DJ for most of the game. Then my greed gets the better of me, I take a poisoned pawn and it is quickly lost. So I play my usual Sicilian He plays the usual and I follow the main line What is this? is he intending a closed variation after all? I wait and see He opts for the open variation I take He takes back And we reach the usual position This is slightly unusual,… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): Although I say it myself, I was quite pleased with my play in this game. I build up the pressure, find an interesting combination to win queen and pawn for rook and bishop and manage to convert the favourable ending. Sicilian of course. Main line again. Instead of d6. Quite playable, but rather unambitious. 3. d2-d4 is usual. Attacking e4 He protects. Threatening the e pawn again. So he… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): So this was the next game after my disastrous lose to Chris Lewis. I'm playing an 18 year old girl, much lower graded than me. Nothing could go wrong? Could it? Well, as you will see, I should have lost this! She starts conventionally We play out the first moves of a main line Sicilian, one of my favourite openings. This is slightly unusual. 3. d4 is normal. I play this, expecting her to… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): In this game, I gain positional advantages which eventually lead to the win of a pawn. My opponent sacs another pawn to keep my knight hemmed in. I sac it to go into an ending a knight for 2 pawns down, but my king is so active, it is very hard to defend. I honestly couldn't see all the posibilities to the end. I wonder - would a computer have played this sac? Perhaps someone with Fritz or a… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): This was my 4th round game, as you will see, I was slightly lucky My favourite Sicilian I had expected d4, the main line- the Open Sicilian. White instead opts for the Closed Sicilian Both sides continue with their development. I was thinking of maybe playing N(g)-e7 and d5 I wanted to play d5 without allowing white to play e4-e5. I later found out that this move is not in either of the… |
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Annotated by nyctalop (2166): The most flexible move against White's irreverent move order. The standard move is 3...e5, but it's too ugly for my taste. I should note that 3.Nc3 was played to avoid the Sveshnikov, so why not play the Dragon instead of a weaker version of aforementioned defense? Back to the open Sicilian. I should say that I don't usually play the Dragon, let alone the accelerated version, except… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): I have been asked to annotate this game, which is quite interesting. I play a sacrifice, which may not be the best move in the position, but it throws my opponent off track. He doesn't find the best defence and loses quickly, in just 17 moves. So my trusted Sicilian Defence The usual reply and the same from me. 3. d4 is more common, but this is often played by players of Michael's standard So I… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2222): So last Friday I get a call from the Kidderminster first team captain, therealjimfriar, saying that a player had dropped out at the last moment, and could I step in? I agreed, thus playing my second game for Kidderminster. Jim said that although my opponent would be graded 170, i.e. 12 points higher than me, he was sure I could win. And so it proved to be the case, although, as you will see, my… |
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Annotated by osiris_007 (1908): I am annotating this game for a member of my team, so I will only mention white moves which I feel are significant The Sicilian Orthodox variation, one of the main alternatives to the Dragon A rarer move, more common is d4, Nc6 keeps the game closed, which is not a good idea against the Sicilian. Freeing the KB to protect the pawn on c5 An important move against the sicilian, opening up the… |
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Annotated by dylam (1200): personally, I don't like the sidelines in the Sicilian developing pieces and creating pressure in the center and f7... black has now "holes" in his black squares... naturally wants to break in the center but the king is not castled yet... with the threat of Re1 creates an isolated pawn for black. not the best move. black needs to remove the white queen from d4 in order to push… |
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Annotated by paradoxal (1200): Freeing the queen and dark-squared bishop. 1 ... c5 Currently the most popular response to 1 e4 - known as the sicilian defence. Immediately stakes a claim in the centre by attacking d4. Preparing for d4. Castling the King into safety before proceeding with queenside development. The pressure on the e4 pawn mounts. At this stage Black already has the upper-hand with a far superior… |
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Annotated by whizzkid111 (1200): This was a league game which i played and I made a slip but I still
managed to fight back. This game should say to you all "never resign"
you can always fight back! More common is 3.d4 or the Nimzovich Rossolimo attack which is 3. Bb5. A forced capture. Threatning 6. Nxd4 Developing a piece and supporting the d4 knight. Attacking the e4 pawn Supporting the e4 pawn To bring … |
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Annotated by knightxp3 (1200): my favourite opening golden rule that i have learnt after losing to the junior national champion of my country.. never free the rook file .. it can be very dangerous as the opponents rook becomes free the bishop is saved thinking about a future attack and better position mistake!!!! knight takes bishop would have been better
this move of king makes it… |
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Annotated by markb56 (2146): Nothing noteworthy in the opening...
The a6,b5,c4 pawn-chain proves to be durable enough to determine outcome of the game. d5 is a better square for the Black Knight. White hopes to break the a6,b5,c4 chain chain formed in move 14, but the chain proves
to be more durable than he thinks. With this move white is forced to trade-off both his Bishops!… |
