This has got to be my best positional game ever.

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Amanultra
well i played black but in real life im white.:)class="gotomove">Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 d6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Bg4 9. Be2 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Nd7 11. d5 Nce5 12. Be2 Nb6 13. Qb3 a5 14. f4 a4 15. Qa2 Ned7 16. Bd2 e5 17. Nb5 Nf6 18. fxe5 Ne4 19. Bc1 Bxe5 20. Rb1 Qh4 21. h3 Qg3 22. Rf4 Qe1+ 23. Kh2 Bxf4+ 24. exf4 Qxe2
illini977

is there anyway i could download the moves and see it by clicking the arrows sort of thing??

cant be bothered doing every move by thinking which square...

s1080

             this should help

s1080

I hope thats right...and I assume your black:)

illini977

ummm how did you do that...? :P

Amanultra

The move d6 was actually a mouse slip. i impressed myself by developing a plan that would make that move useful. i really wanted it on d5.

Loomis

Black uses queenside pressure against the long diagonal and weak pawn on c4 to force the white queen into a pathetically defensive post on a2. With the queen cut off from the king, black turns attention to the defenseless white monarch, who soon falls without the aid of his lady. The bishop going back to c1 weakening the defense of the backrank didn't help.

 

The theme of the queen being cut off from the defense of the king is remarkably common in successful kingside attacks.

Amanultra
Loomis wrote:

Black uses queenside pressure against the long diagonal and weak pawn on c4 to force the white queen into a pathetically defensive post on a2. With the queen cut off from the king, black turns attention to the defenseless white monarch, who soon falls without the aid of his lady. The bishop going back to c1 weakening the defense of the backrank didn't help.

 

The theme of the queen being cut off from the defense of the king is remarkably common in successful kingside attacks.


 Well said. I have very little knowledge of the english opening, actually none, but i found a way to add pressure to the center and force my opponent to bend to my wishes. first i wanted the d4 square as you can easily see. i played all of my moves in the opening around it adding attackers and removing defenders of the square. then by defending it white created another weakness on the c4 pawn which i quickly jumped to attack it. b3 would have been much better than Qb3 which i was delighted to exploit. when white tried to gain something on the kingside i was quick to make it mine.

Loomis

I thought at first b3 would be enough to shore up the weakness and then white could go about business, but then the knight on c3 will hang on the long diagonal. It seems your pieces coordinated even better than you realized! (heck, whenever my pieces it's probably an accident.)

RedSoxFan3

First bad move by white was d5. You just traded off your light bishop and he takes his pawn off a dark square???

Second bad move was Qd2. These moves lost the game positionally.

RedSoxFan3

White is bearing down on the white squares on move 11. Instead of 11. d5... I would have suggested 11. b4 a gambit that opens up the A and B files for the white rooks for a strong queenside attack as well as removing blacks dominant C-pawn from the center of the board.

Phelon

11 d5 was foolish by white. He trade his knight for a bishop and now he's closing off his position? You did well exploiting that and proving your knights to be better than his bishops.

Also on move 14 he should have played a4. I guess it didn't register with him that pawn attacking queen takes precedent over pawn attacking knight.

Move 16 he should have pushed e4, giving himself more space and preparing to break open the position and make his bishops useful, and that Nb5 move was more or less wasted.

By move 20 you are completely dominate in the position and most of whites pieces are trapped on the inactive queenside. Well played.