Nice game, but I don't think anyone should ever castle. It just traps the king in the corner when you should be trying to centeralize your king for the end game and use it as an attacking piece. Hiding it away on g1 is no good!
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2. ...Nf6 is not an inaccuracy. It's called the Petroff defence (Russian defence). You could try taking the pawn on e5 instead of Nc3 but Nc3 is fine too!
6.h3 and 7.a4 are mistakes I think. They take too much time! You are still in the opening and your pieces need to be developed as fast as possible!. Your rook on a1 and bishop on c1 aren't doing anything. Instead of h3 and a4 you could have played b3 and Bishop b2 like you intented from your notes!
And if you want to use h3 you should follow it up with g4 if you really want to break the pin. But often times the weakening of the king isn't worth it. Luckily your opponent played Bg6 which is not a good move.
The mate in 1 threat is too easily countered. Like you said Rook e1 would have been better.
13. ...Be7 isn't good but Ne5 probably isn't better, black prepares for castling and stops the check. Ne5 isn't better for black because of the weak king black has, especially because the white squared bishop for black can't defend d7 anymore.
Very nice mating attack in the end!
Jul 28, 2015
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i_never_castle wrote:
Nice game, but I don't think anyone should ever castle. It just traps the king in the corner when you should be trying to centeralize your king for the end game and use it as an attacking piece. Hiding it away on g1 is no good!
I think that's true to an extent. I think it's better to castle than not to castle, but of course centralize the king some time later for the end game like you said. Nice name btw :D
MonkeyH wrote:
2. ...Nf6 is not an inaccuracy. It's called the Petroff defence (Russian defence). You could try taking the pawn on e5 instead of Nc3 but Nc3 is fine too!
6.h3 and 7.a4 are mistakes I think. They take too much time! You are still in the opening and your pieces need to be developed as fast as possible!. Your rook on a1 and bishop on c1 aren't doing anything. Instead of h3 and a4 you could have played b3 and Bishop b2 like you intented from your notes!
And if you want to use h3 you should follow it up with g4 if you really want to break the pin. But often times the weakening of the king isn't worth it. Luckily your opponent played Bg6 which is not a good move.
The mate in 1 threat is too easily countered. Like you said Rook e1 would have been better.
13. ...Be7 isn't good but Ne5 probably isn't better, black prepares for castling and stops the check. Ne5 isn't better for black because of the weak king black has, especially because the white squared bishop for black can't defend d7 anymore.
Very nice mating attack in the end!
Very good information! yeah the 6. h3 wasn't the greatest, but I wanted to kick the bishop. But then I realized I couldn't because I'd weaken the king side a lot. And yeah 7. a4 was definitely not good. I even questioned myself immediately after playing it haha. Yeah, the mate in 1 is easily countered, but my real aim was to skewer the knight with the pawn on b7. It would have been a pretty quick win if he missed the mate in 1 though :p.
13... Be7 prepares Black to castle, but if he does, he'd lose the bishop to Rxe7 (Queen can't recapture because of the Knight on c6). So yeah it doesn't seem like he had much options.
All in all, great analysis! Thanks a lot. Looking forward to hearing more.
Well im far from a good player but on move 3 im curious as to why you did not take the pawn if he doesent take back yuor up a pawn if he does take there is a perfect trap for winning a Kight or even queen my apoliges for spelling i have a horrible keyboard where the keys stick.
Jul 29, 2015
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Thomas9400 wrote:
Well im far from a good player but on move 3 im curious as to why you did not take the pawn if he doesent take back yuor up a pawn if he does take there is a perfect trap for winning a Kight or even queen my apoliges for spelling i have a horrible keyboard where the keys stick.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I didn't want to go down that line because I'm not familiar with it and it seems to invite too many early exchanges that I didn't want. What if his Queen backed up his Knight instead of the pawn? Or simply retreat his knight back?
Thomas9400 wrote:
Well im far from a good player but on move 3 im curious as to why you did not take the pawn if he doesent take back yuor up a pawn if he does take there is a perfect trap for winning a Kight or even queen my apoliges for spelling i have a horrible keyboard where the keys stick.
You are not up a pawn in the Petroff.
The mainline goes 3... d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4.
Hey guys!
This is my first post on the forum. I just wanted to share with you one simple but effective game I recently played. I'm not an expert at chess, but I think this game illustrates why it's important for one to castle early. I added my personal commentary just to show what I was thinking.
I'd like to know what you all think! Thanks.