Move 3 is a mistake. You never want to block your C pawn in that formation.
The reason you played Ne8 was so you can play f5. However, In most cases you can play Ne4 instead than f5. In this situation by playing Nc6 you wasted a tempo which made Ne4 impossible becuase your opponent was attacking that square with 2 piece's. Also Nc6 blocked the view of your bishop which the bishop would of supported an Ne4 move.
Move 3 is a mistake. You never want to block your C pawn in that formation.
The reason you played Ne8 was so you can play f5. However, In most cases you can play Ne4 instead than f5. In this situation by playing Nc6 you wasted a tempo which made Ne4 impossible becuase your opponent was attacking that square with 2 piece's. Also Nc6 blocked the view of your bishop which the bishop would of supported an Ne4 move.
Wouldn't d6/d5 mess up my pawn structure, if I was going for e6 f5 g4 though?
And I see your point. Nbd7 better? (with d6 or d5) (just didn't want to mess up pawn structure, or keep a weak pawn)
I was just told to go with the pawns structure, and went with it here.
Would c5 have been helpful here? (move 3)
@logozar: Unfortunately, there is not much advise I can give because, in reality, your rating is about the same as mine. I'd say you played well, and your opponent missed the important threats of check's, captures, and mates. It's very similar to an OTB chess game I witnessed, and helped coach. This guy made some mistakes, but one of them was not seeing those threats, which is vital. The idea is to, as someone once said, "You need to look out for all threats, checks, captures, and mates". And, it's an essential lesson because I made a similar mistake about a week before, hyperfocusing on development, but missing the threats. However, my only advise to you then is not think oh, he'll do that. For example, you wrote, "Keep up with my plan" But, what if your opponent had a plan that would stop that plan. Then, it becomes important to think about what his plan might be, for your opponents plan are just as important as your own. I know because I have made similar mistakes, before. Anyway, aside from that, I thought you played extremely well, and it was well annotated. Now, I don't have stars that I can rate it by, unfortunately. But, if I could, I would have given you on a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 is the best. well, I would give you 5 stars for the way it was annotated.
Move 3 is a mistake. You never want to block your C pawn in that formation.
The reason you played Ne8 was so you can play f5. However, In most cases you can play Ne4 instead than f5. In this situation by playing Nc6 you wasted a tempo which made Ne4 impossible becuase your opponent was attacking that square with 2 piece's. Also Nc6 blocked the view of your bishop which the bishop would of supported an Ne4 move.
Wouldn't d6/d5 mess up my pawn structure, if I was going for e6 f5 g4 though?
And I see your point. Nbd7 better? (with d6 or d5) (just didn't want to mess up pawn structure, or keep a weak pawn)
I was just told to go with the pawns structure, and went with it here.
Would c5 have been helpful here? (move 3)
At move 3 you could play d5. However, if you do than you probably wouldn't Fianchetteo. The position would be more like a Queens Gambit Decline type of position. However, in this game your opponent didn't play c4 so its not a real true Queens Gambit. It would be more like a French Defence type of set up. However, after looking at your game you really wasn't going for that. You was going more for a QID
In the game your idea was to play like a Queens Indian Defence type of position.
So the move Nc6 was a very disruptive move. Your opponent was playing a London System set up. So you would of been fine against that. London System is very solid. However, it allow's black alot of flexiblity becuase it is not so demanding. The idea of the Queens Indian Defence is to try and control the light squares in the center.
So you will have your bishop on like b7, knight on f6 hitting e4, Later on you will put he knight on e4 or retreat than play f5 to get more control of the square, and you in some cases you will trade off your dark bishop for white's knight on c3 to gain more control of e4.
The below video can show you how to play the QID. Usually the most respected line against the QID is the Catalan/Kings Fianchetteo variation from white which is shown in that below video. However, if they don't play those type of position's. You should do extremely fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAq7WGvNxZk
The only draw back is usually if you like the QID you have to be prepared to play another line against Nc3 player's. So maybe try the Nimzo as well. Its very solid and respectable as well. Most higher level's avoid the Nimzo so thats when players play the QID
Here is another video from Chess.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiDCW-NO848
Its a very solid opening choice so if you get good with it you can keep it till forever even past Grand Master level. I believe Anand play's this line and so does several other SGM's
Move 3 is a mistake. You never want to block your C pawn in that formation.
The reason you played Ne8 was so you can play f5. However, In most cases you can play Ne4 instead than f5. In this situation by playing Nc6 you wasted a tempo which made Ne4 impossible becuase your opponent was attacking that square with 2 piece's. Also Nc6 blocked the view of your bishop which the bishop would of supported an Ne4 move.
Wouldn't d6/d5 mess up my pawn structure, if I was going for e6 f5 g4 though?
And I see your point. Nbd7 better? (with d6 or d5) (just didn't want to mess up pawn structure, or keep a weak pawn)
I was just told to go with the pawns structure, and went with it here.
Would c5 have been helpful here? (move 3)
That messes up the pawn structure, but how can white take advantage?
I played this game as black, in the final round (round 7) of the texas scholastic chess championships.
The time control was 75m 5s delay. I will post what I remember from my thought process (it was last month)
Please analyze, and comment. I want to improve!