My Tournament Games Analysed

I believe that it was Botvinnik who recommended that a player publish his own analysis of his games.  I intend to give that a try here.  My first thought was to use the blogs but I have been on this site for years and I only just realized that those were a thing so I decided to use the forums and to update this post (or is it a thread?) as regularly as I play a tournament game.  I won't include my opponent's name for privacy reasons but I will include their rating.  I analyse my games by plugging them into Fritz and then making comments on my thoughts and plans during the game.  Please feel free and welcome to comment/criticize (preferably constructively)/and enjoy the games.  

Regarding your first game in the thread, playing a KID-type formation as Black against a d4 / Bf4 / e3 opening:

When I play a King's Fianchetto formation against a London System-type layout by White, I prefer to play my c-Pawn to c6 instead of directly to c5. This is the end result of several games against 1800+ rated opposition... I find that the e7/d6/c6/b5 formation gives more active prospects than the e7/d6/c5 formation.

One hidden benefit is the possibility of meeting White's aggressive e3-e4 plan with a transposition into a very favorable line in the Ruy Lopez Breyer Defense. It's not often that you see a QP opening like the London System transpose into a KP opening like the Ruy Lopez (Breyer).

I can post an example game from this line if you would find it useful.

Thanks for sharing. Good strategy for improvement; I may follow the same strategy. Thanks again.

In fact, I play a rather odd-looking formation.

First, a bit of info on the Ruy Lopez Breyer formation, just to orient you. Here's one plausible line leading to a Breyer formation:

Note that the Black Queen's Knight ends up on d7 after moving N(b8)-c6-b8-d7, and the Black King's Bishop ends up on g7 after moving B(f8)-e7-f8-g7.

If I could somehow transpose into a position like this, but with the Knight having played DIRECTLY from b8 to d7 and with the Bishop having played directly from f8 to g7, then I would be four moves ahead of White, since I would have avoided wasting time on those circuitous N+B maneuvers!

The system I use for Black against the QP London System avoids early contact in the center and develop my pieces behind a screen of Pawns, the way you do in most fianchetto openings like the King's Indian Attack.

It has the weird advantage, though, that in this line it's hard for White to pull off his typical e3-e4 break without ending up in a Breyer-type position, several moves behind.

A sample move=order would be:

... and suddenly we have a position that is clearly recognizable as a Ruy Lopez Breyer... an e4/e5 opening! But Black is about four moves ahead of the Breyer, because his Queen's Knight arrived at its post via N(b8)-d7 instead of the Breyer's N(b8)-c6-b8-d7; and his Bishop arrived at g7 via B(f8)-g7 instead of the Breyer's B(f8)-e7-f8-g7. Four tempi saved!

There's a game in my archive (against Anniversaryboy) in this line, but I don't have a paid membership so I can't access my older games.

This is very interesting.  Thank you for the insight!  I will definitely give this system some serious consideration.  Black attacks on the queen side and if white tries to continue developing peacefully he lands in very hot water very fast.  It seems that the break e4 is necessary as early as move 8 for white to be able to counter attack but black still keeps a bit of an advantage for example

It might seem a bit odd to play c7-c6 early in the opening and later on play b7-b5 and fianchetto the Bishop on b7, but this is a recognized maneuver (called "the Nest method") that is also used by Black in the classical Caro-Kann (against 1. e4) and in the Slav Defense (against 1. d4).

You can always clear the Bishop's long diagonal later, with c6-c5. That move both sweeps open the diagonal for the fianchettoed Bishop and also attacks White's center Pawns.

I found that game I mentioned!

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/56893854?page=1

Just throwing some blitz-type moves out there to see if I understand the point of c66... c67. Bd3 Nh5 8. Bg3 Nxg3 9. hxg3e5is the point of 6... c6 that white can't push d5 anymore? 10. dxe5dxe5 11. Qc2 Be6this position does look more sharp than the one in the gam

I think you need to keep the tension in the center and do not hit first and play instead dxe5, Qc2!

[Event "Let's Play!"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2016.11.15"]
[White "Ned22"]
[Black "Bilal155"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "1733"]
[BlackElo "1482"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]
[Termination "Ned22 won by resignation"]
[CurrentPosition "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nf3 c5 5.c3 Nc6 6.Nbd2 cxd4 7.exd4 h6 8.Bd3 Bd6 9.Bxd6 Qxd6 10.O-O a6 11.Re1 O-O 12.Ne5 b5 13.a3 Bb7 14.f4 Rac8 15.g4 Nh7 16.g5 hxg5 17.fxg5 Nxg5 18.Qh5 Ne4 19.Rxe4 f6 20.Rh4 fxe5 21.Bh7+ Kh8 22.Bg6+
1-0

This is a very interesting one.  I played well but blundered at the end.