7. Bd2. You make this move to avoid pins of the knight. But your opponent can't play Bb4 at the moment. I think Be3 is better since your opponent is likely to play Qb6 where the queen will interfere with your castling.
9. Bd3. Here Bc4 is also an option. Then if you want to open the position later with f5 black's only way to avoid opening up the file is to push the pawn which opens the diagonal for your bishop.
On move 27 did you consider Rf3 with the idea of playing Rh3?
On move 31 How about attacking the pawn with the rook!
If the pawn takes your bishop you swap off rooks and check with your other rook!
7. Bd2. You make this move to avoid pins of the knight. But your opponent can't play Bb4 at the moment. I think Be3 is better since your opponent is likely to play Qb6 where the queen will interfere with your castling.
9. Bd3. Here Bc4 is also an option. Then if you want to open the position later with f5 black's only way to avoid opening up the file is to push the pawn which opens the diagonal for your bishop.
On move 27 did you consider Rf3 with the idea of playing Rh3?
Thank you for taking the time :) 27.Rf3 is indeed a nice idea which I unfortunately overlooked. I just wanted to get back to the position I had before his pawn sacrifice because that was all I could see.
It seems I had a development advantage throughout the whole game. Have any ideas why I couldn't make any use of that until he practically did all the work for me by castling infront of my queen and rooks?
28 Bh6 wouldve been interesting for you:
28. Bh6 g6 29. Bxf8 Kxf8 30. Qxe6 Qc7?
I also wonder what would happen if you'd 33. Rh8+ Kxh8; 34.Qfx8+ Kh7; 35.Rg1 fxe3; ehh trouble. I think the draw was a good choice
On move 31 How about attacking the pawn with the rook!
If the pawn takes your bishop you swap off rooks and check with your other rook!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find any pawns that I can attack with my rook :) please elaborate
28 Bh6 wouldve been interesting for you:
28. Bh6 g6 29. Bxf8 Kxf8 30. Qxe6 Qc7?
I also wonder what would happen if you'd 33. Rh8+ Kxh8; 34.Qfx8+ Kh7; 35.Rg1 fxe3; ehh trouble. I think the draw was a good choice
Thanks but I think the whole point of him playing Qc2 is that he wants to meet Bh6 or any other attack on his king by Qg6 intending a queen swap :/
On move 31 How about attacking the pawn with the rook!
If the pawn takes your bishop you swap off rooks and check with your other rook!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find any pawns that I can attack with my rook :) please elaborate
When the pawn attacks your bishop the rook on E1 can attack that pawn!
On move 31 How about attacking the pawn with the rook!
If the pawn takes your bishop you swap off rooks and check with your other rook!
On move 31 he had to move the queen to g6 because it was under attack by the pawn. If you mean move 32, then that also doesn't work because the queen was still under attack by the black queen.
28 Bh6 wouldve been interesting for you:
28. Bh6 g6 29. Bxf8 Kxf8 30. Qxe6 Qc7?
I also wonder what would happen if you'd 33. Rh8+ Kxh8; 34.Qfx8+ Kh7; 35.Rg1 fxe3; ehh trouble. I think the draw was a good choice
Thanks but I think the whole point of him playing Qc2 is that he wants to meet Bh6 or any other attack on his king by Qg6 intending a queen swap :/
I see your point but after pawn g6 ha can only get his queen into action on c7. Which isn't strong because exd6 (with mate threat on f7) and Rc1 maybe after to Rc7. Also, he can't force a queen trade with your b pawn in the way, but why would a queen swap be a bad thing?
On move 31 How about attacking the pawn with the rook!
If the pawn takes your bishop you swap off rooks and check with your other rook!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find any pawns that I can attack with my rook :) please elaborate
When the pawn attacks your bishop the rook on E1 can attack that pawn!
Ah now I see! Well that's a very nice idea which I completely overlooked since if he then takes the bishop I think he will be mated by Rxf8 Kxf8 Rh8#. Thanks for that suggestion!
On your note for 10. Na4, c3 would've been a bad move if the computer had threatened your knight with the queen. Black would play b5 winning the trapped knight.
For move 15, i thought c3 was also an option.
28 Bh6 wouldve been interesting for you:
28. Bh6 g6 29. Bxf8 Kxf8 30. Qxe6 Qc7?
I also wonder what would happen if you'd 33. Rh8+ Kxh8; 34.Qfx8+ Kh7; 35.Rg1 fxe3; ehh trouble. I think the draw was a good choice
Thanks but I think the whole point of him playing Qc2 is that he wants to meet Bh6 or any other attack on his king by Qg6 intending a queen swap :/
I see your point but after pawn g6 ha can only get his queen into action on c7. Which isn't strong because exd6 (with mate threat on f7) and Rc1 maybe after to Rc7. Also, he can't force a queen trade with your b pawn in the way, but why would a queen swap be a bad thing?
Queen swap would be bad because I wanted to mate him :) And that is also why I don't want him to play Qg6 since then I can't attack his king anymore. And I don't really understand why he would play pawn g6 if you say it is bad for him?
On your note for 10. Na4, c3 would've been a bad move if the computer had threatened your knight with the queen. Black would play b5 winning the trapped knight.
For move 15, i thought c3 was also an option.
I think my reasoning was that Be3 would be an in-between move for improving my bishops position before c3 since it has no good square to stand on on the queen side. Do you agree?
On move 31 How about attacking the pawn with the rook!
If the pawn takes your bishop you swap off rooks and check with your other rook!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find any pawns that I can attack with my rook :) please elaborate
My guess is that he's looking at the line 32. Rf1 fxe3 33. Rxf8+ Kxf8 34. Rh8+ Ke7 35. Qe8#. Unfortunately, this fails because of 32. ... Qxg6.
28 Bh6 wouldve been interesting for you:
28. Bh6 g6 29. Bxf8 Kxf8 30. Qxe6 Qc7?
I also wonder what would happen if you'd 33. Rh8+ Kxh8; 34.Qfx8+ Kh7; 35.Rg1 fxe3; ehh trouble. I think the draw was a good choice
Thanks but I think the whole point of him playing Qc2 is that he wants to meet Bh6 or any other attack on his king by Qg6 intending a queen swap :/
I see your point but after pawn g6 ha can only get his queen into action on c7. Which isn't strong because exd6 (with mate threat on f7) and Rc1 maybe after to Rc7. Also, he can't force a queen trade with your b pawn in the way, but why would a queen swap be a bad thing?
Queen swap would be bad because I wanted to mate him :) And that is also why I don't want him to play Qg6 since then I can't attack his king anymore. And I don't really understand why he would play pawn g6 if you say it is bad for him?
Sorry I missed something, nevermind. I thought g6 was the only response to Bh6.
And with his pawn there he couldn't move his queen there.
...9. Bd3. Here Bc4 is also an option. Then if you want to open the position later with f5 black's only way to avoid opening up the file is to push the pawn which opens the diagonal for your bishop....
I gave this some thought and a question popped into my head. Say he does move his pawn forward. Wouldn't that leave me with a pawn weakness on e4, since that pawn can't be defended by another?
Hello everyone I would like some input on this game of mine between the Chessmaster personality Hans (rated 1712 by my program) and myself. This is the first time I annotate so keep that in mind ;)
My opponent neglected development but otherwise played quite well imho. How should I have taken advantage of his misstakes?The game was analysed in chessmaster, hence the strange numbers everywhere.