A jam-packed position, please help!!

Hi,

Today I was played a very tensed game on facebook which ended in a draw at the following position because both of us got exausted. I was playing as white and belive my position is superior than my conterpart.

It would be really nice if I could receive some comments on what moves should be made from this position onwards to actually gain an advantage. What I want to know is the motive behind the moves and the final aim.

BTW this is my first post on forum at chess.com. Hoping to learn a lot.

Cheers,

Jayant

Could you post the entire game?

From the position here, it seems very odd that you guys would draw. I'd be interested to know what made you so exhausted. A position like this could be achieved fairly quickly.

After trading light-squared bishop for the f5 knight, the white queen should be able to penetrate into black's position. If gxf5, queen goes to f6; if exf5, double rooks on e file and try to trade queens.

Hi kleelof,

Thanks for your reply. I made a small change in the original position. The white rook was on e1 instead of d1.

I just remembered the final position and didn't recorded my moves. I'll try to reproduce them if I could and post that too. I'm a pretty novice player and during the game each of us was taking 2mins to make the next move. So we got bored after about 35 minutes and decided to draw.

Thanks :)

If you stick to playing on Chess.com, you can get a PGN of your game and that can be posted here.

As for your current position, I sort of agree with DieHardMango. Except I'm not sure I would be interested in trading my bishop.

This position, although not technically open, seems to have many 'open' qualities and with the right pawn movements, could become an open position.

To this end, I would play g4 soon. Then begin activity on the c-column. Those double pawns I think could be helpful. The first one to clear blacks b-pawn and the second to push throug with the 2 passed pawns you would have.

His h-rook is pretty much out of commission trapped on the king side. And his queen, back rank knight and the other rook are woefully cramped and the king...well....he's screwed being stuck in the center and so close to the activity you could create.

On a personal note. I think it was foolish to stop playing just because it was taking 2 minutes to move. You did your opponent a big favor by resigning.

@DieHardMango How could I trade the d3 bishop with f5 night. There is qween in between. If I would try to reposition the queen, the night would change positions. How would the tarding and further moves be possible in such a scenario. I am a novice player, so pardon me if this is obvious. Thanks :)

@jayantjpr After Qf4, Ng7, g4, and the knight has nowhere else to go. If he doesn't trade, he ends up with two bad knights in a cramped position.

@kleelof, DieHardMango I now relize that the knight is pretty much trapped in the current postion. The only escape after Qf4 is e7 ( g6g5 would pin the knight and then exchange follows). I analysed the game further with Houdini and it uses the similar motive of c-file activity with double pawns and Knight-bishop exchange as game progress. Later on the ill-positioned knight is easily caputre with significant material gain and good position to white.

Here is some analysis by Houdini for the position :

Sure it was a foolish decision on my side to accept the draw, when it was indeed a winning position. But, it required a bit of accurate play and identifying the write motives and places of attach. Sure need to improve a lot.

Thank you so much for your help.  :)