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Jeanne1

The game went on but I just stopped it after my series of bad moves. Didn't want to show fully how bad I played :/

Sqod

Since nobody else is commenting I'll add what little I know, even though I didn't quite recognize this opening. After I looked up the opening on 365chess, I realized why I didn't recognize the opening: the most popular 3rd move for Black here is 3...Bb4, which is the Nimzo-Indian Defense, which is quite a good defense, although it has a lot of variations to learn. Instead you played 3...b6, which isn't quite the Queen's Indian Defense, either (which requires 3. Nf3 instead of 3. Nc3 to qualify) and so your opening doesn't even have a name. The defense you played shows the stats:

White wins 51.9% of the time

draws 21.2% of the time

Black wins 26.9% of the time

Therefore, statistically, White already has a significant advantage before the 4th move.

Other normally questionable moves (though possibly in this nameless opening they are recommended) are:

(1) The extended fianchetto 4...Ba6 (...Bb7 is standard in d-pawn openings, especially after ...b6).

(2) Moving the same piece twice in the opening with 6...Bb7.

(3) The unprovoked capture 7...Bxc3. Make White work to get the bishop pair, like with ...a6 first. Besides, as Black you need to make sure you keep up with White's development instead of moving yet another unit twice in the opening.

wrathss

I put this into lichess and it said after 4. Nc3 that it is the Queen's Indian defence, Kasparov variation (I verified this from chesstempo.com). So the opening does have a name (a damn good one at that).

http://en.lichess.org/OD1dPePD/black#18

The only move that had some problem was 4..Ba6?!, which was played only 8 times on the chesstempo database. If white went 5. e4! that would be a simple and near a +1 advantage with the big center. For example after 5..Bb4 6.Bd3! the bishop on a6 doesn't threaten anything. My comp recommends just going back with 5.. Bb7 instead.

With 6. e3?! and your correcting move Bb7 a little later the game was balanced and white had the usual first move advantage.

Sqod

Nice analysis, wrathss. I didn't think about the "big center" of 3 flanking pawns. Yes, 365chess has a paucity of names for openings, so I wrote down those two databases you mentioned for future reference.

Jeanne1
Whip_Kitten wrote:

Forget databases for a second.  What was your plan during the opening?  It looked like you changed your mind with the bishop going from Ba6 to Bb7.

I think formulating an idea of what you want to do out of the opening would help.  You can obviously get those ideas from opening databases, or you can play openings tactically like any other position.  

In this case, I was surprised to see the bishop go to Ba6.  Usually after b6, the bishop goes to Bb7 so that it can control the squares on that long diagonal.

I mixed up my variations. The ba6 was to put pressue on the c4 pawn. White plays b3 and then go into a Nimzo position with Bb4 hopefully getting the bishop to go to d2 where it would have to loose a tempo getting it on the b2 to h8 diagonal. Something like that I have to study it more but in general you loose a tempo to discoordinate whites pieces 

FMCouch
Jeanne1 escribió:
Whip_Kitten wrote:

Forget databases for a second.  What was your plan during the opening?  It looked like you changed your mind with the bishop going from Ba6 to Bb7.

I think formulating an idea of what you want to do out of the opening would help.  You can obviously get those ideas from opening databases, or you can play openings tactically like any other position.  

In this case, I was surprised to see the bishop go to Ba6.  Usually after b6, the bishop goes to Bb7 so that it can control the squares on that long diagonal.

I mixed up my variations. The ba6 was to put pressue on the c4 pawn. White plays b3 and then go into a Nimzo position with Bb4 hopefully getting the bishop to go to d2 where it would have to loose a tempo getting it on the b2 to h8 diagonal. Something like that I have to study it more but in general you loose a tempo to discoordinate whites pieces 

 

Yes! You mixed up the variations. This Ba6 is the main move IF white plays g3, so that the Bf2 should go to 'g2' and then the c4-pawn can't be protected by him. But, when White doesn't play g3, then the Ba6 is misplaced!

That's a typical error when you only memorize the opening and don't understand the ideas. The rule of thumb is "play Ba6 if White has played g3", but you also need to understand why.