If you feel you did the right thing taking the draw then the draw was the right move
but the opening you used is called the english opening when you are white and open with c4
opening with c5 as black is called the sicilian
If I am wrong then I will stand corrected and I was informed incorrectly but I think I am correct
It's not called the English Opening (which is 1. c4), but the Sicilian Defence.
thank you for those tips ( I am not very good at openings and do not know the names )
I literally laughed when you said 1.e4 c5: the English Opening.
And please, DO NOT ANNOTATE EVERY #*$% MOVE!!!
Beginners do that far too much, and a GM annotating every move is probably only good for beginners. Sorry for the bad wording, but you understand.
White would probably (since I can see no promising attack other than this one) play 24. Nxd6 Bxd6 25. Qxd6 Qxd6 26. Rxd6 -/= after which the inactivity of black's king's rook and white's pressure on the queenside allows him to grab some pawns, e.g.:
26... Ra8 27. Ra1 a5 28. Rb6 b4 29. cxb4 a4 30. Rc6 a3 31. Rxc4 Ke7 32. Rc3 a2 33. Rc2 Rab8 34. Taxa2 Rxb4 =
26... a5 27. Rd5 a4 (27... b4 28. Txa5 bxc3 29. Tc5 = ) 28. Rb1 a3 29. Rbxb5 and black's passed pawn doesn't win after
29... Ra8 30. Ra5 =
29...Rxb5 30. Rxb5 Ke7 31. Rc5 a2 32. Ra5 Rc8 33. Rxa2 =
29... Re8 30. h3 (or g3) Re2 31. Ra5 a2 32. Kh2 Re1 33. Rd8+ Ke7 34. Rxh8 a1=Q 35. Rxa1 Rxa1 =
So the game would probably have been drawn, but I think you should have played it out, since your opponent's threats were not too serious. Too bad you couldn't castle anymore, if you could, you would probably have won. Anyway, well played!
you have a tempo so why not the karpovish h5 and develop your rook vertically instead of laterally. to gobble your pawn, he would have to lead with his knight, which can then be pinned. after h5, your rook problem is solved as well as your d6 problem. you don't have to worry about him snatching up the bish cause he is down. trading will only hurt him. I don't see any immediate threat that you can't parry
11. Bb5, right`?
Nice game - when you play d4 on move 3 by the way it is not contesting the d4 square at all. The pawn is attacking the e5 and c5 squares. Moving the pawn to d4, if anything, weakens your hold on d4. I am not saying it is a bad move, just questioning the annotation.
also, you say 11. Qe2+ doesn't achieve anything. But two moves later you are forced to move your king to f8 and lose the right to castle. It seems to me that Qe2+ has quite a lot to do with that because it leads you to pin your bishop with Be6 and that allows White to check with the bishop next move. So you might be underestimating the Qe2+ move. The problem is that your king is left exposed in the middle.
Next time and every time after that play 3 ... cxd4!
BLACK could of WON easy
you did a great game drawing was dumb and you don't have to know opening names at all
thank you for thinking enough of me to actually open a form discussing this. I think you shouldn't have offered me the draw, because you probably would've managed to win that one.
Hi guys, this is a game I just finished and despite beind 3 pawns up, I believed I had a very inferiorposition and accepted a draw.