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Hi can anyone help analyse this game? I feel I played it quite well: until the Blunder!!!
5. e3 is not best. c4xd5 e6xd5 6. Bxf6 either wins a pawn or trashes black pawn structure
8. c4xd5 Nxd5 9. Nxc6 also trashes pawn structure.
9. same issue as black is hardly going to "win" a pawn, keep the tension with bishop or queen move.
10. Bb5+ now why do you want to lose your nice h7 attacking bishop against a castled king.
14. ... h6 ? You are losing, why black did not play ... Rfc8 I just do not know.
16. f3 is a lemon as black can reply Ng4 (bishop attacked e3 attacked) 17, Bf2 Nxf2 18. Rxf2 Bf6 and you get hurt on the queenside
17. Rfd1 (hmmm just take the pawn and block the check with your bishop) 17. ... Qb7
18. .... Bd6
20. .... Bd6 wrecking your pin and forking queen and knight.
#3 seems you and me were looking at the same time.
Rat1960 έγραψε:
5. e3 is not best. c4xd5 e6xd5 6. Bxf6 either wins a pawn or trashes black pawn structure
5.cxd5 cxd4! 6.Qxd4 Be7 is a known line, which was played even by several Grandmasters, and it's not easy at all to white proving an advantage.
3 main mistakes:
- 8. Nc6 bc6 is a positional one, after the capture the black b7 pawn gets more central and more advanced on c6; unless some tactics are available, always try keeping more central pawns
- 16. f3 is bad, as it weakens the second rank, as well as the e3 and f3 points
- 26. Ke1 is a major tactical mistake, as after the rook check on f2 white loses too many pawns; retreating on h1 with the king retains big edge and almost certainly a win
#7 Oh err. Arguing with an IM again :-(
How about 7. Bg5xNf6 Be7xBf6 8. Qa4+ Bd7 9. Qa3 Qb6 10. Rd1 - Only a mere four moves from castling.
Maybe 7. Rd1 e6xd5 8. Bg5xNf6 Be7xBf6 9. Qxd5 BxNc3+ 10. b2xBc3
You can't go offering me pawns, because I take them, confident I can defend the storm coming at my king.
pfren, do I take it 5. e3 is best then ?
Thanks people, much appreciated :-)
Rat1960 έγραψε:
#7 Oh err. Arguing with an IM again :-(
How about 7. Bg5xNf6 Be7xBf6 8. Qa4+ Bd7 9. Qa3 Qb6 10. Rd1 - Only a mere four moves from castling.
Maybe 7. Rd1 e6xd5 8. Bg5xNf6 Be7xBf6 9. Qxd5 BxNc3+ 10. b2xBc3
You can't go offering me pawns, because I take them, confident I can defend the storm coming at my king.
pfren, do I take it 5. e3 is best then ?
5.e3 cxd4 6.exd4 is a rather innocuous variation of the Panov Attack (Caro Kann defence).
7.Bxf6 Bxf6 8.Qa4+ is interesting. No games played, but the computer suggests the pawn sacrifice 8...b5!? (and if 9.Qb4 a5!) to expose white's queen and his lacking development. The play is sharp, but Black does seem having good compensation.
I don't believe in 7.Rd1- I think white has to give priority to kingside development, and not start pawn hunting yet. Say 7.Rd1 ecd5 8.Bxf6 Bxf6 9.Qxd5 Qb6 10.Qb5+ Bd7!? 11.Qxb6 axb6 12.Rd2 (to protect a2) Be6 seems to give Black perfectly good compensation for a pawn.
I think best for white is 7.Nf3 (developing, and protecting the queen, so that 7...Nc6 is not on the cards- yet) 7...exd5 8.e3 Nc6 9.Qd3! (controlling the very important e4 square) when white may have a slight technical edge, but Black's position is active, and entirely playable.
Here is a (fairly recent) nice very high level game on the line- the position occured OTB by transposition.
"7.Bxf6 Bxf6 8.Qa4+ is interesting. No games played, but the computer suggests the pawn sacrifice 8...b5!? " ---- Does that prove GM's are weaker than me then. ;-)
Yeah I thought 7. Rd1 was a flake hence the "maybe"
The MB v WS game looks like the Keres version. I really must get his games in a PGN sometime.
I know I would go wrong as black at 12. ... because I would grab the b-pawn.
12. ... Qxb2 13. Rb1 Qa3 14. Rb3 Qd6 14. BxNf6 BxBf6 15. Nxd5
Nice game, the move Kf1 feels more natural than the better Kh1.
To the point where I would feel reluctant to play Rd7 even though it should be good.
