Ametures corner: preparation

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Preparation is a very important theme, it involves ensuring your pieces can preform offensive and defensive tasks, and so your attacks are unstoppable

here is an example of an attack that wasn't prepared.

[Event "Let's Play!"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2013.12.26"]

[White "jetfighter13"]

[Black "-waller-"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "1412"]

[BlackElo "2059"]

[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]

[Termination "-waller- won by resignation"]

 

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5

(and here Black has allowed White to have a really nice knight on d5 as per most Sveshnikov lines) Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6

 

 11.c3 (allowing the Knight on a3 to come into the action when needed) Bg5 12.Bd3 O-O 13.h4 (starting an attack, notice that it hasn't been prepared, and that if it if more pieces wern't added, than it will be weak) Bh6 14.g4 Bf4 15.g5 (a good move, locking the Bishop out of the Action, and prepareing some deadly tactics) Be6( Black attempts to remove some defenders) 16.Qh5 g6 (creating a weakness that is exploitable) 17.Qh6 Bxd5 18.exd5 Nb8 19.h5????? (notice that this hangs the Queen, Ke2 was required, and I had planned it. but unfortunately I forgot my plan.) 0-1


sorry for no visual, My computer is acting up and I can't use it. sorry.