A recent tournament game I lost

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LogoCzar
 
I played in a recent slow time control tournement a couple days ago. Round one I lost, and am posting it here. I fully annotated it with my thoughts, but question marks on the moves I regret. Please tell me your opinions, and analysis. I am fine with criticism, I just want to get better Smile
 
 
 
 
 
 
szachmacik95
szachmacik95

you werent prepared for f4 properly, you didnt develope your pieces and you should avoid this deadly pin as soon as possible

LogoCzar

Ok, thanks.

I disagree with some though. I still think a6 and Na5 was fine, and I think h6 was the only way not to be worse, not a blunder.

In fact, I plug it into a computer and it is its primary suggestion!

 



LogoCzar

I noticed something I could have played that none of us has mentioned.

 
What do you think?



German_MagnusCarlsen

 I completely agree with you on the last piece of analysis with Qxa1! I have to admit that Na5 in the opening is a very contentious idea in the opening. I think it is fine, but many say it is better to just develop.

szachmacik95
logozar wrote:

I noticed something I could have played that none of us has mentioned.

 
 
What do you think?



yep i mentioned this few seconds after adding post

szachmacik95

ok h6 is fine, i was rather talking about positional aspects in your game than tactics cuz i can miss a lot too

corum

I prepared this analysis before seeing the above comments. It still may be useful. I would add that I do think Na5 is bad. It is shocking how poor your development is on the queenside. However, I do agree that 17. ... Qxa1 works. In fact, it is in my analysis below. It is not winning but it is sound.




LogoCzar

Thank you for the analysis! With Na5 I wanted to force the bishop pair, but I positionally blundered with c6.

Robert_New_Alekhine
German_MagnusCarlsen wrote:

 I completely agree with you on the last piece of analysis with Qxa1! I have to admit that Na5 in the opening is a very contentious idea in the opening. I think it is fine, but many say it is better to just develop.

cYes, why in the world do you want to play c6 in that position. Your bishop is a donkey, your knight is on the rim and thus is dim, and your kingside is in Why in the world do you want to play c6? Your knight is on the rim and thus dim, your bishop is a donkey and your kingside is in shambles.

I agree with your analysis.

LogoCzar
Robert_New_Alekhine wrote:
German_MagnusCarlsen wrote:

 I completely agree with you on the last piece of analysis with Qxa1! I have to admit that Na5 in the opening is a very contentious idea in the opening. I think it is fine, but many say it is better to just develop.

cYes, why in the world do you want to play c6 in that position. Your bishop is a donkey, your knight is on the rim and thus is dim, and your kingside is in Why in the world do you want to play c6? Your knight is on the rim and thus dim, your bishop is a donkey and your kingside is in shambles.

I agree with your analysis.

Ok thanks. By The Way why are you repeating yourself?

jonnin

14 pretty much lost if for you, with the resulting piece drop and open file assault.

g5, ?whatever?, Ke7 (he has no diagonal or open file attack here), ?whatever?, d6 or d5 lets your other bishop out to play, and you might have a chance to recover.    Certain moves in the ?whatever? would of course force a different response but they end up being inserted moves and then back to this main idea to get your position stabalized.   For example if he tried g3 in the first whatever, you play f3 perhaps, and the idea here can still be pursued.

But you are losing (positionally) significantly at 14 and its going to take some work to defend your exposed king. 

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jonnin

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Athanael

I agree with others on what they have mentioned so far.

After Na5 and c6 your pieces were just too locked up into the queenside.

c6 doesn't let your knight go back unless you play other pawn moves, and your bishop on c8 is locked as well.

White simply played it better and seized the advantage by opening the king's side with f4 whilst your pieces were locked up on the other side of the board, hence why Na5 and c6 were not good moves. Those pieces are useless on those squares and are too far away from action. But from your comments on the game it looks like you've already figured that out.

corum

It slightly worries me that you are still not accepting that Na5 was a poor move. Surely the fact that it never moved again must tell you something. Yes, you got the bishop pair but at such a high positional and developmental cost that it was worth nothing. 

Strangemover

knight on the rim is dim

X_PLAYER_J_X

Move 6...a6 Annotation:

I wanted to play d6 and protect my pawn, but did not want him playing Na4 exchanging my bishop.

Oh Son! You put your bishop on c5 at move 3!

If you are scared your bishop is going to get taken.

Than you should call the Police!

If not than you should not play this line!

The bishop on c5 is a target.

White will not want it there.

If you can not accept the loss of the bishop here than you should not play this line.

My recommendation would be to play the move

3...Nf6 =  Two Knight Defense

or

3...Be7 = Hungarian Defense

LogoCzar
corum wrote:

It slightly worries me that you are still not accepting that Na5 was a poor move. Surely the fact that it never moved again must tell you something. Yes, you got the bishop pair but at such a high positional and developmental cost that it was worth nothing. 

I think c6 cutting off the knight from going back was very bad, it caused the knight from getting out of play. But if I did not play c6 the knight should have been fine, just would have taken a couple tempi to get it back in the game.

After the analysis I prefer the moves h6 and d6, though I don't think it was terrible.