Creg, Thanx for the lesson. Be careful about pawn grabbing. Development is better. Got it..!

     I do agree really, however, mental strenght and chess board do play significant roles too

Oh!,the handling of the middle game by white is very tricky indeed

Cool your erilier than me ive been playing since five

 

i love chess so much i have been playing it since i was 3  years  old  

You beat the computer on hard! Nice one, Remsta. I can only beat it on easy. lol

Thanks <ice>. As a person with a corporate training background one of my many challenges is to get people to understand the gist of a lesson. Since the advent of computers in chess it has become even harder in the game we love. Too many people get locked into rote analysis and forget that people do not think this way. By learning and understanding themes and concepts you can actually improve your game much faster than by finding out what's the best move.

Creg, your comment is very good. i like it.

cool game did you  no i  beat leval hard against the computer!!!!!!!!!!

<chopra> 7. Bg5 is a logical continuation as it sticks to white's theme of activating his pieces. Sure, there are better moves for Black, but it is important to understand that when you play a game you must come up with a plan over the board. It is obvious that black opted to win material as he simply never figured white to achieve the attack that he did. Even up to 12...Bd6 black most likely felt comfortable with his decision to go for pawns, and only after 13. Nxf7! did he begin to realize that he may be in for a fight.

This however is not a daily puzzle and I do not like to nit-pick over a better move here or there. The objective of the article is a lesson on piece activity. It shows how a player should look for development, as well as active piece placement over grabbing pawns. 

never mind

 

well, nice game. Whites attack all the time. Blacks almost all time defending against the advance of whites and move the queen far from the king to capture some no  important white pieces at that moment, I think this was the main mistake of blacks. I agree the inicial move of the bishop to g5 was not a good move and should be blocked for the black's king bishop, and no moving the queen to  a5.

<sk8erkid> I'm not so sure I understand your comment?! Do you mean unusual? If so, what is so unusual about it?

bg5 was a usaul move...