I don't think I have seen that pawn structure ever before.
Even tripling his pleasure and transposing into the queen's gambit accepted didn't save your opponent.
Today's Blitz game 22-1-2019
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Jan 24, 2019
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Good to see players commenting on their games.
Here's an experiment: in this game you focused on trying to take away your opponents pieces, maybe try a few games where you focus instead in taking away squares so your opponent has nowhere to move.
laurapalmer666 wrote:
Good to see players commenting on their games.
Here's an experiment: in this game you focused on trying to take away your opponents pieces, maybe try a few games where you focus instead in taking away squares so your opponent has nowhere to move.
A nice suggestion, laurapalmer666.
An example would be more appreciated though. How do I achieve that? By my understanding, I should try to limit my opponent's piece activity instead of trying to take out their pieces?
Both of us started off with a common opening that I'm sure most of the chess players are very much familiar with, with equal development of pieces and castled safely. From move 8 however, things seem to get interesting and I immediately realized I'm in for another brand new variation!
Suddenly at Move 7, I decided to try something sneaky that will make the game a little more interesting. Make White have triple-pawn structure, which I had achieved it at Move 10. The reason I did that is because I learned from the lessons that doubled pawns on the same file, would be weaker in general. With triple pawns, White's pawn structure is even more awkward which could leave chances for Black to plan some devastating tactical attacks. (which, I hadn't reached that level yet. I can feel it, but I can't see how!)
The battle continues on with equal chances for both sides from Move 11 until move 24, when White finally launches a check on Nh7+. According to the evaluation line, White is leading by + 6.16. (which I'm not going to extract that engine's variation line into the game because that would have been beyond my own chess understanding for now.
Time-wise however, White is severely behind Black.
Throughout the midgame, I must admit that I have no clear plans on how to attack White. So I decided, along with the time advantage to keep my position as solid as I can while trying to find free pieces for capture. It would be a tall order to plan for a decisive check with continuation like tactics. Which I don't wanna do it in a Blitz game, because I know it will eat up too much of my clock and the next thing I'm gonna see is that I'll get pressured! I could only rely on my own chess skill to find checks and threats that are too obvious, like many other of us!
I'm not too bad on defending my own pieces though, whenever I'm facing threats by my opponent. At least I could calculate 2 moves ahead in this game on what is gonna happen for most of the time. And I do have a bishop on h7 to keep an eye on White's d3 queen. Unfortunately for me, the attack just didn't happen as White managed to keep the queen safe throughout the whole time.
And on move 44, White has taken clear advantage on the board. This time however, I didn't panic. You know why? You probably have guessed it immediately why - the clock of course!
With the endgame running on the next to last moves, I have 2 minutes of spare time to make some ordinary but logical moves (at least) to make sure my opponent uses up at least 2 seconds each move, so he will eventually time out afterwards, which was precisely what I am aiming for!
I do and will acknowledge however, that my opponent has played better than me tactically. And so I must respect his skill, minus the Qa2+ blunder.
That concludes the end of my commentary of today's game!
As always, feel free to share your own chess knowledge of skills on what better moves could I have done, what are the tactical opportunities I could have seen and utilized it, and what threats my opponent could have made!
Thank you all and have a wonderful day!