I have been using the new feature " Game Review" by chess.com
In particular reviewing my games with Black. While I have a fair number of adjustments to make in my repertoire, there are a few games I am proud of, looking at my archive in Explorer.
and this one comes to mind for the following reason :
Yes 2 brilliant moves in one game is fairly unique.
The power of the black pieces !
One the key ideas when playing blitz is that sometimes it pays to be ambitious and look for attacking chances, including with the black pieces.
Here with Black, I decided to play a reverse Sicilian against 1.c4 the english opening.
This is White to play in this position. This looks like Black is playing a closed sicilian position.
Or the pawns push on the kingside is reminiscent of the King's Indian Defense.
Either way, I am looking as soon as move 12 as attacking the white king. In this game it worked.
and here comes the first !! move ( as per Game review anyway)
Black to play
but White saw the danger and did not take on h4. Instead 24 Kg1 was played.
Black to play
and the engine likes my ..Qh3 move, which I don't think deserves !! status.
But I like the idea to have two brilliant moves in one game....
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Sadly the next game only gets 1 great move, and no !! move. Still I like it quite a bit in terms of developing an attack with Black right from the gate.
Black to play
Here we have a sicilian Kan. White has played a4 questioning my early b7-b5. Now it is time to develop an attack. What move did I play ?
Answer in the next diagram
after my move 10..h5, I threaten 11..h5-h4 going for it. My opponent stops me with 11.h4. In this sharp position, I kept putting pressure.
White to play
My opponent has taken on h5, but I am not counting the pawns lost. I just played 0-0-0 and my opponent plays Bxa6, which opens up the play around my king. but I am determined to break-through on my kingside attack.
Here how the game finished
Stockfish14 less than impressed, even points out I had a blunder in this short game.
Thoughts/comments ?
