You and your opponent missed 9Neg5? Bxf3 winning a piece
Otherwise well played.
My first attempt at Queens Gambit
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Bxf3 and Nxf3, not Bxf3 saves the piece, the knights defend themselves.
Far too much moving the same piece in the opening without even getting castled. And often your light square bishop is going to want to be on d3 rather than e2 in these positions, strong attacking square. Although in this position specifically you may come back to c4 to hit the weakness created after f5.
Don't have time to look at the whole game, going to sleep lol.
Dec 9, 2010
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nqi wrote:
You and your opponent missed 9Neg5? Bxf3 winning a piece
Otherwise well played.
dschaef2 wrote:
Bxf3 and Nxf3, not Bxf3 saves the piece, the knights defend themselves. h6 on the other hand would have been good as it puts white's knight in an awkward position.
Far too much moving the same piece in the opening without even getting castled. And often your light square bishop is going to want to be on d3 rather than e2 in these positions, strong attacking square. Although in this position specifically you may come back to c4 to hit the weakness created after f5.
Don't have time to look at the whole game, going to sleep lol.
Thanks for your comments, there were a few moves where I could have done things differently, but there was method in my madness ;)
I decided to hold off from castling as my opponent had too, plus I hadn't decided what the hell I was doing with my knights at this point
Dec 9, 2010
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If all he could do on move 29 is offer the Q-exchange, he may as well have resigned.
And I finally won. First time in 4 games as white.
Decided to try something different and after reading up on the QG, decided to give it ago against a stronger opponent.
How did I do? Not sure I was completely accurate in many of my moves, esp in the end game, but I managed to cut off all attack from black and win fairly comfortably. I've annotated to show my thinking. Can see myself playing this as my main opening.