TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
I went over your game Bean, hope you didn't mind. It's quite a good game, but you could have played on and gone for the win. There were some sensitive spots with only moves where you could have thrown it away however so agreeing to a draw was somewhat reasonable.
Oops, said pass at the end when I meant push lol! Also meant attacker push the g-pawn obviously.
Thanks brother for a very good analysis. I really appreciate it. The reason I opted for a draw was I had more than 100 online games. And I thought the rooks would be exchanged, leaving Q+K+P vs Q+K+P end game that ended mostly in draw.
For this game I didn't look up in game explorer. My analysis is only 5-6 moves deep at most.
Thank you, brother.
Very popular, but extremely hard to memorize. Basically, if you are not prepared to spend a few hours before each game revising variations, you had better not try it...
The Grunfeld isn't too hard to memorize (now memorizing so many trees 20 moves deep is another thing, memorizing two or so isn't bad). I rather play chess than memory so I opt for the Queen's Indian and when I am in the mood for memory go with the Leningrad Dutch instead. I'm particularly fond of ...Qe8 systems with the idea of pushing the e-pawn, where white usually captures en passant and I recapture with a Na6-Nc5-Nxe6 and sometime even a Bxe6.