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64idi0t
Nov 5, 2010
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Bellow is a game that I lost on live chess yesterday, (10min 10sec) with a beautiful Boden's mate by my opponent (I resigned at 19th move, two moves before he could have delivered it), prepared by his Queen sac.
My preliminary comments are included. I find my main error being neglecting the defense, and think I need to finally study Vukovic's "Art of attack". I will appreciate any input, and am looking forward to your remarks.
IMO, the position after 16...0-0-0 could easily be included in some of chessdotcom puzzles. Unfortunately, the brilliance isn't mine, but of my opponent.
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Dragec
Nov 5, 2010
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#2

Well, the Boden's mate is actually delivered by 2 bishops, but some similar motifs are present in your game.

This is "probably" most famous Boden's mate:

 

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64idi0t
Nov 5, 2010
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#3

You are right, it isn't a classical Boden, but the mottif is present, IMHO. Any input about the game and my errors?

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64idi0t
Nov 6, 2010
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#4

Bump.

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ivandh
Nov 6, 2010
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#5

Well, as you say castling queenside wasn't a good idea. I would have initiated the attack on move 16 instead of castling at all, there is not much you can do to patch up your queen-side, I would try to give him something more to think about than taking your b pawn.

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Dragec
Nov 6, 2010
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#6

Well, my first thought is that you were seriously underdeveloped to start pawn storm.

5. ... h6 is unnecessary IMO, only 4th choice for 5th move (chessgames.com opening explorer):

5...Nd7  369

39.3%
36.9%
23.8%
5...c5  310

40.6%
38.4%
21%
5...Ne7  158

31.6%
40.5%
27.8%
5...h6  19

36.8%
36.8%
26.3%

 

I would probably go with 11. ...Rxh6 (with later Qg5, Ne7 ... ), ...Nxh6 puts the knight and the rook out of the game.

Declining a queen exchange wastes another tempo, while he places his queen perfectly for attack, You obviously never saw it coming, and he was begging you to castle queenside.

Castling quuenside was really a bad idea when so many attacking forces(and no defenders) are aiming there, truly a puzzle material.

Connecting the rooks at some moment with Ke7(or Kd7) would be a better idea, center was blocked and relativelly safe.

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64idi0t
Nov 7, 2010
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#7

Thanks.

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burnsielaxplayer
Nov 7, 2010
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#8

It is pretty rare to see someone put up a game that they lost on the forums.  Awesome game.  Thanks for sharing

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guguloiul
Jun 23, 2011
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#9

Insted of 13.h4,I would've tried 13.g3,rushing the attack,after 14.fxg3 or 14.hxg3,you can play 14.h4 ! and you attack a little bit faster.