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Avatar of DarkAngelCryo

A game i Just concluded on here. Anybody have any comments? 

Avatar of Batman1313

7. Bxb8...why take there? It is an even trade, but you actually give up great position of your Bishop. This leaves your white Bishop undeveloped and your opponent with a centered white Bishop. Additionally, when your opponent checks your King at 9. B4b+ you could have countered with said Bishop instead of pulling your knight from the center. That is just something I noticed that allowed your opponent more offensive options later on. 

Also, 24.Qh6 is what caused you to lose tactically. your opponent anticipated your move for checkmate quite well. This ended up being a major strategic loss and put you behind on material. 

 

Just some thoughts from what I saw. I am not very good though, so take the advice as you will. Hope it helps. 

Avatar of DrSpudnik

How about 4. Qb3?

He'd probably have to play Bc8 to not drop the d-pawn or the b-pawn.

Avatar of DarkAngelCryo
Batman1313 wrote:

7. Bxb8...why take there? It is an even trade, but you actually give up great position of your Bishop. This leaves your white Bishop undeveloped and your opponent with a centered white Bishop. Additionally, when your opponent checks your King at 9. B4b+ you could have countered with said Bishop instead of pulling your knight from the center. That is just something I noticed that allowed your opponent more offensive options later on. 

Also, 24.Qh6 is what caused you to lose tactically. your opponent anticipated your move for checkmate quite well. This ended up being a major strategic loss and put you behind on material. 

 

Just some thoughts from what I saw. I am not very good though, so take the advice as you will. Hope it helps. 


I was asking myself the same question about the bishop knight trade when i was doing the annotations. Not sure what i was thinking.

Yeah, I see what you mean about move 24. I  got sort of a tunnel vision there.

Thanks for the comments.

Avatar of Spirit_of_Phoenicia

Nxe4- Big Mistake. After that trade you start to loose it all. That Knight could have used as an offensive piece because you had support to it from the pawns.