RaviKiran Game 1 - Troubled by English
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Ur analysis is very nice.It almost recollected the same thoughts which I got it over game.I felt that white after the exchange up,after 12th move , white has tried to quicken the game by opening the game in the center and king side and while doing white actually loosed its position and gave a chance to black.
Infact white did blunder after blunder and white has no plan and is only concentrating on nuetralizing which I felt is a big mistake.On the other side black's only chance is it attack as its already a exchange down and it continued doing it in a very effective way.
Another drawbacks are white's pieces are not well developed.Black did well in capitilizing on white's mistakes.
Hi Guys,
Just few observations:
1. Pin is a bad thing, and its not a good idea to be in a pin continuously. So, whenever your pieces are pinned, try to remove that as soon as possible. Play h6 and remove the pin.
2. Why a6 on the 6th move ? too much of pawn movement in the openings, we need to develop the pieces as soon as possible.
3. We can not intact our favourable position for the whole game, there will be some broken pawn structures, some king side weaknesses as the game progress. I got a felling that Mihir was concentrating too much to save his pawn structure, which has resulted this middle game mishap in between. You could have allow even the broken pawn g*f6 by play Qc7 to overcome the pin. if your g file will be open, that will not be a bad idea in this structure. You can try once or twice.
4. Re6 was a bad move again by black. As black is trying to save the pawn structure. You could have play h6 instead of re6. White will continue as follows:
Bf6 - Nf6, Nc5 - dc5 and continues ... thats not a bad structure at all and there is no weakness in the center which white can explore.
5. f4 is a very weak move by Ravi, in englisg (or kings indian structure) white never plays f4, untill he is forced. This makes the complete structure weak. specially the e3 and f2 squares.
6. And after f4 white has played over cautiously, which has resulted in a slow piece play. Till after 26th move all the pieces were not developed (white queen and black bishop specially).
7. If you want to play english, you need to study the particular pawn structure and some theories. Some more practice games and readings will be helpful to undertsand better. I will try to provide some links.
My suggestion is (to both of you): Please develop your pieces very fast and do not waste time in the openings with too much of pawn movements.