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Jason112

Jitesh

I feel white's 15.gxh3 was a mistake.Better was 15.g3 .

From white's point of view,it is better to get Queens cancelled in these situations.

Jason112

             yes paulgottlieb good comment i think he did play passively in the opening he couldve tried to take advantage  better of his starting first move initiative, I saw this defense the old steinitz played in top touraments and also i sometimes have trouble defeating this defense it seems so drawish, so i wanted to try it myself.

            But not taking the bishop when sacrificed i think it wouldve been mistake or at most white would have lost a pawn off the board. If i was playing white i would've taken the bishop and then defend stubbornly to survive the temporary initative of black and then realize my material advantage.

yorugua

White definitely played this opening too slow. However, I also think that your sac on h3 is unsound. Even after the continuation white played, it looks to me like 19.Bf4 solves white's problems and leaves him ahead. Maybe I am missing some tactics, but could not see much for black. If anyone has suggestions for black after 19.Bf4 I'd gladly analyze those.

Jason112

the right continuation for black is not Ng5 but taking the d4 pawn with knight on c6, and also i think in 10 minute game attacking is easier than defending so the sacrifice is not wrong its for draw at best with correct play by both sides but in 10 minute game the attacker is at an advantage.

yorugua
Jason112 wrote:

the right continuation for black is not Ng5 but taking the d4 pawn with knight on c6, and also i think in 10 minute game attacking is easier than defending so the sacrifice is not wrong its for draw at best with correct play by both sides but in 10 minute game the attacker is at an advantage.


I disagree Jason, I think white has way better than a draw after the sac. If I had to pick a side to play after the sac, whether it's a 10 minute game or a 2 hour game, I would pick white.

Jason112

if it was 2 hour game i wouldnt have done the sacrifice but also computer analysis show that white has abt 0.60 advantage and in 10 minutes two ppl playing that can easily lead to draw its not conclusive advantage, but u r right white does have the advantage here.

FifthDimension

Ok you played a pretty good game but I will say one thing:

You submitted your game for analysis but you wrote all these things like "this was my only mistake of the game" the main point for analysis is for other people to point out your mistakes and things you could work on ... when you say stuff like that you should just put this in the "game showcase" category. 

--5D--

Jason112

I analyzed my always negative friend so other intermediate players like me who aren't grandmasters can also benefit from the game and from some of the ideas :), so i am not showcasing the game, i am analyzing the game for others to see and also comment where i have done wrong...but ofcourse you should always say something negative don't you?:) 

Shakaali
paulgottlieb wrote:

White seems to play the opening somewhat passively. Both 4.d4 and 5.d4 seem more direct. Despite this, White managed to get a pretty nice position. 

I think that the faster plan of d4 instead of c3+d4 is the most popular mainly because due to certain tactical details after 4. d4 black will later be forced to either surrender the centre with exd4 or to support e5 with f6. Against the "improved" Steinitz defence 3... a6 4. Ba4 d6 white very often uses the plan with c3+d4 (since the direct 5. d4? b5 6. Bb3 Nxd4 7. Nxd4 exd4 8. Qxd4? c5 etc. looses a piece) and I believe the game continuation is best compared to those lines. However, as the game went I think that after 8... exd4?! white had a bigger advantage than in the mainline (4. d4). Here black is not forced to surrender the centre and 8... 0-0 seems more promissing.

In the continuation you are right about 14. b4?! not being the most accurate. For example 14. Ba2 making the "spanish" bishop work or 14. e5 when Nf6 has no good squares left look much better.