We need more amateurs to post their annotated games.

thanks man

The only thing that I really didn't like from white was 5.Qe2.  I think the Spanish autopilot dictates that you simply castle at this point instead of defending the e-pawn.  If he immediately takes the e-pawn with his knight, you should be able to gain the material back in a few moves by exploiting the now half-open e file and black's uncastled king.

Aside from that, 5.Qe2 just looks awkward.  I think that you were reluctant to defend the pawn with moves like Nc3 and d3 because Nc3 would interrupt the c3d4 pawn break in the center that is typical of the Spanish, and defending with d3 would lose a tempo.  Still, I really hate placing the queen on the e2 square during the opening because it opens up tactical lines where she can get harassed by a knight landing on d4.

The centralized king at the end was real nice.

Qe2 is a form of the lopez often called the worral or wormald attack often employed by alekhine. it is designed to avoid some of the more open lines and to spare one's memory of the open variations. after Qe2 the idea is to use your Kings rook to support the advance of the d pawn by Rd1, I also played it because the chess computer probably was unfamiliar with it.

Well played 123! Your opponent probably shouldn't have started trading off minor pieces when in my view that was his best assest and possible compensation (3 minors vs 1 minor and a rook)

That's really interesting.  Thanks for your explanation.

all right bro

Nice game. You have very good tempi management, in the sense that you do few unnecessary moves, and are able to recognize whether an opponent's move is a threat or not and whether to reply to it or instead go for offensive play. Therefore you are able to create and execute attacks very efficiently. This is something I have seen and liked in your prevoius games too. As a particular example, many people would have played Be2 after 7...Bg4, but you omitted it for playing 8.Be3, 9.Nc3 and 10.Qd2, putting your king in what may seem to be danger but creating the basis of your attack that won the game by activating your pieces, together with 15.Kb3 as you noted too. In the same time you managed to prevent a possible Black's attack on the queenside, which was enough of a defense for your strategy. Then you won by good technique.

Don't ask me how I managed to win this one.  I just love unorthodox openings and unorthodox chess.

A sicilian game with players attacking on different sides of the board.

A game I just played today :)

Merry Christmas everyone !!!

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