Here are a couple games with the line we played in the game above.
The first is a correspondence game where a rook sac is well played and a nice line to remember in the 10. g4 line. The other is a Master BDG game (1-0) where the mainline 11. ...h6 is played.
http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=82508
http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=463609
I was checking the game against the * The Dream Team * and it looks like if there was never a chance, black was always better. We have to change earlier in the opening, as early as move 8.
This was the game:
We should try 8.g5 next time (instead of 8.Bg2):
I Agree with you Socialista. In that (6. ..c6 7.g4 Be6) line of the Tartakower/Gunderdam 8. g5 should be our mainline. Continuing 8. ..Nd5 9.Ne4 Nd7
In the game against the "Chess Learning Center" if we want to play the same variation, we have to improve our line at move 12 with 12.Nxd5 (we made 12.Qe4):
I haven't looked at the Euwe vote chess game with Stockfish but I might. I haven't been paying attention to vote chess and I'm sorry about that. But I suspect that 24.h5 is better than what was played. I feel like White's initiative is worth a pawn in the resulting position. Looks like a dangerous attack.
I play a different line in the Euwe, with 8.Qd2 instead of Qe2. The idea is very simple - Qd2 -> Qf4 -> Qh4 keeping an eye on the h6 square at all times. If h6 is ever played, the bishop sac is sound.
Qe2 I haven't explored though I recognize it from some of Diemer's games. It could have equal value; I don't know. Nd5 from Black leads to some trades in either line. Not sure which is better. I think in both lines Black incurs a structural defect--often a backwards e6 pawn, to thwart the attack, which White later picks off for compensation and an equal ending.
Hi all.
Here's a recent Vote Chess Games of ours, which I am posting with annotation and comments. Please feel free to post and analyse.
This is the Teichman Excahnge variation. THE most common response to the BDG, followed by the Teichman Retreat Variation, Tartakower, Euwe, Vienna and the Lamb/Pietrowsky.
BDG Vote Chess Game, Teichman, Bxf6 Variation: http://www.chess.com/votechess/game?id=42644
Our opening play and middlegame play was fine IMHO and we missed 1 tactic in the middlegame 24. Bf5!. Christoph Scheerer reccomends 10. 0-0 as mainline and does mention 10.g4 as a valid sideline which was our choice, as well as it being in Tim Sawyers Keybook.
Next game up for analysis is our Tartakower game. http://www.chess.com/votechess/game?id=41916