Here's a game I played against one of my good friends, he is new to chess.com and loves to play. I wanted to show him this really great analysis forum that has helped me so much. We played an unrated game and I gave my own analysis of the game. Please give your feedback espeically for what white's plan should be and better moves. As always feel free to knock holes in my analysis too! ;0)
David and Goliath
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Read your analysis again. Notice how it seems as though he is playing mistakes very often yet you never made one! I am sure that your friend would not be so happy reading this...
I might be missing something profound but 10. cxb5 just wins a pawn
4...d5, 5...d5, 6....d5! (or ...e5 with the intention Bg4 and Nc6)
14....h6?! why would it matter if he gets his knight to g5?! just castle!
on move a7, white's plan is actually Bf1-h3. It's more important to active the light bishop because the knight on a4 allows white to control the a file.
If I sound grumpy - my apologies. But hope that anything of what I said is helpful.
shuttlechess92
Shuttlechess .. your comments are fair. My thoughts when writing the analysis were geared towards how I can help Dave see opportunities and potential plans/ideas for his army. I made plenty of mistakes, don't get me wrong. Making him happy wasn't exactly what I had in mind, just wanted to point out what I thought were his mistakes and what his plans could have been from my point of view. With that said, you point out some very good ideas for both sides. 4...d5 was an obvious move that I entirely missed.
shuttlechess92 wrote:
on move a7, white's plan is actually Bf1-h3. It's more important to active the light bishop because the knight on a4 allows white to control the a file.
I really don't understand how the knight on a4 allows white to control the a file. Seems to me the knight has zero influence over the a file, rather is just getting in the way of the rooks who want to control the a file. Can you explain?
the knight allows White to play Ra2, Ra1, freely, without having to worry about any rook exchanges. If white plays for Bf1, d3, Ra2, Re1-a1, etc, he should have no problems. In any case, pretty nice game :)
I added a possible variation at move 17 regarding the position I think your talking about. I still can't say white owns the a file after this. I love the idea of the white bishop coming to h3. BTW.
white has no intention of sending the knight to c3!
the point is that white has stabilized the a file. Black has no way of making use of the a file. White's plan is to play Bc1, Bh3, g4-g5
7...Qb6 was to defend the b5 pawn. On 10...I'm losing the b5 square. So I moved the battle away from that square with tempo.
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