I'm Trying . . .

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So I'll admit to being completely obsessed with chess for the better part of a year now. With 2 little kids at home, I don't really have a ton of time to sit down and study the way I'd like to, but I do spend a fair amount of time with a few books and  board set up in front of me. I've recently been looking at the Colle Zuckertort, and I bought the book Zuke 'Em, which I really like . . . anyway, d4 is a relatively new first move for me so as I work my way through some of these games I find myself in unfamiliar territory. Interestingly enough, I find my play is often better/sharper when I'm not familiar with some of the positions that arrise. Maybe it is just that I'm more focussed???? Who knows . . .

So as I'm reading through some of the CZ info that I have, I've come across many examples of a kingside fianchetto for black working pretty well to take some "bite" out of the opening.

In the game below, which I played last night after I got the kids into bed, my opponent played an early kingside fianchetto. So rather than plodding along with some of the theory I've been interested in testing out on the CZ, I went down a different path. While I'm sure the fact that this was a 5 minute blitz game helped me in this "aggressive style of play", I'm wondering what some of you better players might think about my efforts. Feel free to tell me it was pure luck and basically garbage if that is what you think, you wont hurt my feelings . . . I'd love to hear from anyone who'd be willing to take the time to look this game over . . . Is the early bishop sacrifice a reasonable way to combat that kingside fianchetto?

4...d6 and 7...Bg4, definitely didn't help his cause, but his mistakes aren't really my fault, I was in uncharted waters too just looking for the best moves available . . .

 

Thanks,

Ted