Your opponent plays very well; great attacker.
Annotated loss #7: A wonderful tactic
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achja wrote:
Interesting game ! Good that you posted it.
And am I overlooking something obvious here ?
15.Qxe6 f7xe6 16.Nf7 and white wins the exchange while black doesn't seem to have any compensation.
Yeah, I just overlooked it. That would have won instantly. I'm glad someone found it interesting.
Don't overthink this, this is a very common theme. In fact, it has two main branches and you have to know both:
- The flaw here is that you saw the rook is unprotected, and you didn't see nother move to protect it. You failed to see a discovered protection move, which is very very hard to see while calculating advanced variations.
- The most common type of missed discovered protection move is castling. When a player is attacking a king stuck in the middle of the board, he may assume that it takes a while to get it out of the state. but a surprise O-O or O-O-O can be a nasty discovered protection moves.
It seems you were unaware of the presence of the h8 rook because he was "blocked" by the bishop, and that Bh6 was equivilent to the opponent suddenly placing a rook on h8 that wasn't there before.
As a personal note, I always find it especially mindblowing when a pawn move creates a discovered protection move. I know in the past, I have been so oblivious to discovered protection moves that I have taken pieces which I thought were hanging. If I could look farther back than a month in my data base I would find some examples of this- but I cannot.
As a rule of thumb, for any situation:
Always assume the opponents pieces can attack through each other when calculating initial ideas. This will get you thinking properly, and will alert you to discovered protection moves and discovered attacks before you even start with concrete moves. Back when you calculated Qf5, you should have already had the idea that black's Rd8 was protected by his Rh8. Of course, when you calculate concrete moves you see the board as it is. But with the idea of the Rd8 being protected by Rh8, doesn't Qf5 seem a little silly? The idea of the move should just put you off when you assume that the opponent's pieces can jump over each other when making tactical plans.
Great game!
xman720 wrote:
Don't overthink this, this is a very common theme. In fact, it has two main branches and you have to know both:
- The flaw here is that you saw the rook is unprotected, and you didn't see nother move to protect it. You failed to see a discovered protection move, which is very very hard to see while calculating advanced variations.
- The most common type of missed discovered protection move is castling. When a player is attacking a king stuck in the middle of the board, he may assume that it takes a while to get it out of the state. but a surprise O-O or O-O-O can be a nasty discovered protection moves.
It seems you were unaware of the presence of the h8 rook because he was "blocked" by the bishop, and that Bh6 was equivilent to the opponent suddenly placing a rook on h8 that wasn't there before.
As a personal note, I always find it especially mindblowing when a pawn move creates a discovered protection move. I know in the past, I have been so oblivious to discovered protection moves that I have taken pieces which I thought were hanging. If I could look farther back than a month in my data base I would find some examples of this- but I cannot.
As a rule of thumb, for any situation:
Always assume the opponents pieces can attack through each other when calculating initial ideas. This will get you thinking properly, and will alert you to discovered protection moves and discovered attacks before you even start with concrete moves. Back when you calculated Qf5, you should have already had the idea that black's Rd8 was protected by his Rh8. Of course, when you calculate concrete moves you see the board as it is. But with the idea of the Rd8 being protected by Rh8, doesn't Qf5 seem a little silly? The idea of the move should just put you off when you assume that the opponent's pieces can jump over each other when making tactical plans.
Great game!
Oh dear, this is actually extremely useful! Thanks :)
7. Bf4 is apparently not a great move ...http://www.365chess.com/opening.php?m=13&n=3372&ms=e4.c6.d4.d5.Nc3.dxe4.Nxe4.Nf6.Nxf6.gxf6.Nf3.Bf5&ns=3.31.21.32.90.96.91.97.103.104.104.3372
I believe the dark squares are potentially weak in black's camp in this variation, and making it easy for black to exchange off the dark squared bishops might ease black's task. (7. ... Qb6 looks really annoying but I guess it doesnt amount to anything useful.)
Hello!
In this game, I face a Caro-Kann structure that's atypical for me, and I build up what I consider to be a good position. However, one tactic from my opponent makes me lose a piece for no compensation. I'm posting this because apparently there's value in analyzing obvious losses :DDD. Just kidding, this game isn't a complete waste of time. The opening is the most interesting part, and I'd like some suggestions on how to face this structure.
Thanks,
chessman