Nova's Daily Game Analysis 16-10-2024

Hi!

I'm building myself an opening repertoire with white and black. With white I play the English with 2.g3, and with black I want to play a mix of the Caro-Kann, the Nimzo-Indian, and the Symmetrical English.

How I want to build my repertoire is to play one 10-minute game per day and then analysing that game for myself in-depth. First I write down the thoughts that I had during the game, and then I run another analysis with my opening references and with the engine.

I played more games that I analysed in-depth, but this is the first game that I'm sharing here, so you can follow my journey to master my own opening repertoire.

These were my thoughts during the game:

This is the analysis with resources and engine afterwards:

Overall I think I played an okay game. My opponent made it easy for me, especially at the end, but my strategy was clear and straightforward, and all my moves fitted in my plan in some way. Only my opening play was a bit sloppy, and I need to work on that. But that's what this work is for.

What can I take away from this game?

1. In the Nf3 Exchange, when white has played c2-c3, don't play the light-square bishop too fast if white can be annoying with Qb3. This is an important technical nuance that I wasn't aware of at the start of this game, but it showed when I analysed the game with the engine and the database afterwards.

2. In a more general sense: before developing the light-square bishop, make sure that white can't become annoying against the light squares on the queenside. As the analysis shows, it takes preemptive measures to do this.

3. In this version of the Carlsbad structure, the bishop is better positioned on d6 than on e7.