Destroying a 1600+ player early in the openning - using one piece

Many beginners in chess learn this famous rule - Do not move the same piece twice!

Since I'm rated ~1500 ELO, I regard myself as a beginner too.

Though I am a beginner and have a little experience in chess, sometimes I feel as confident as you please and play dangerous tactics against much stronger opponents. Occasionally, I even go against basic ideas like the one I mentioned above. In many cases my tactics fail but In other cases, my opponents understand that my tactics are in fact extremely strong relative to my rating.

Today I played a game vs a player with rating 1616 ELO. When the game started, my thought was: "I'm going to lose to an opponent rated 150 points above me, so why not to try some crazy things and see what happens then. I will lose anyway. At least I'm going to have fun!"

So I played my best, conducted a crazy and unpredictable plan, while not worrying about the consequences.

I actually won the game, but the thing that made my day was the computer analysis of this game:

It turns out that I played like a GM 

Take a look at my game.

The game started with an opening called "The Scotch":

Then My opponent tried to surprise me. He played a move that I have never seen before: Na5.

My response was to capture his d4 pawn, and after a regular exchange I played Ng5, attacking the f7 square with a threat to mate him. My opponent protected the f7 square, and then I castled immediately.

RULE 1: When the position is open (i.e. the centre is not blocked by pawns) you must castle as quickly as possible, otherwise your king will be vulnerable because the enemy bishops can easily attack it using the central diagonals.

RULE 2: When the position is closed you can delay the castling if you want. It won't risk your king.

 

I attacked the c7 square which became weak when the opponent moved his queen!

Then I played Nc3 with the idea of bringing this knight of mine to d5 and fork the black queen and bishop.

My opponent moved his queen to e5, avoiding the fork and also adding one more attacker in order to get rid of my annoying knight on g5.

I responded with the move f4 - both protecting the knight on g5 and attacking the black queen.

 

 

Then, a few more moves later:

My opponent played 12...Bd8, trying to trap my queen. He almost managed to trap my queen, but I responded with a strong move 13.Nb5! and forced him to exchange queens.

 

Then I pulled out this wonderful tactic:

14. Nb5!

It looks crazy, I know... Not only did I move the same piece twice, I also put it back on the square where it came from! In retrospect, it was a good idea.

 

Now my opponent had 2 options:

 

1. Castle to prevent me from checking his king.

If he castled, then the d6 and b7 pawns would fall, so he chose the second option.

 

2. Played 15...Bc5, to protect the d6 square.

 

Then I knock him out:

16.Nc7+!!

Forking the king and the rook.

4 seconds later, my opponent resigned.

 

I hope you enjoyed my analysis and learnt something from it.

I personally learnt that the rule "Do not move the same piece twice" is not necessarily correct. As you see I played a perfect game by going against this rule - I moved the same piece 4 times again and again and defeated a much stronger opponent.

 

Have a good day. Cheerio! 

It would have been nice to see the whole game. Right now all I see is the first 4 moves. Could you repost so we can see the whole game?

You can add comments to the PGN

Kinda just seems like your trying to brag, not a bad game but everyone plays bad now and again

Nice job beating up your opponent!

I used to play the Scotch Gambit against 1....e5. It surprised some people. That knight move isn't bad against the Fried Liver, but it came too early.

Nicely played. Your opponent broke opening principles and refute is improper play in the opening.