When I was done with this game I was very pleased. I know I made some mistakes, but I think I also made some very good moves. At the time the game was played my opponent was ranked better than 150 points above me.
In your opinion, did I play well for my ranking (1425) or did my opponent just play really bad for his ranking? What moves were paticularly good and what moves were paticularly bad?
I was black.
Game 5619303
Bad ideas: Not castling early enough, allowing the queen to take most of your pawns.
Good ideas: Swinging the queens rook accross to the attack, Rxf3 was also a better move then I would usually expect at your level.
Overall, I would say it was a good comback, but be careful in future to try not to let yourself into such positions where a comeback is required.
pimp,
Thanks. I thought my opponent's mistake was not developing the bishop and rook. Although I was down on material as far as what was on the board, in actual play I was up! I figured I needed to take advantage of that fact as quickly as I could.
Ty,
Castling too late was a problem that I saw as soon as his queen put me in check. I wasn't sure what to do. I didn't see the loss of my pawns until after b5. I knew I was going to lose both my pawn and my bishop. Would Qd7 have been better? He could have locked my king to the middle of the board, but the queens would be gone too.
I figure I should have castled after I took his knight. I didn't like 10.Nc3e2 and figured I needed to advance my knight right away. Otherwise I would have usually castled at move 10.
I was paticularly proud of Rxf3, but it was a really good move. My Personal Chess Trainer program taught me to that it can be very beneficial to replace a supporting pawn with a rook.
Originally posted by Eladarum resign, im not trying to bring you down but its really just an obvious winning move, i mean i didnt really notice at first but every variation leads to mate i think, but the move itself isnt that difficult to find, but still its good u saw it
alex,
What would have been a good response to Rxf3?
I'm sorry, I didn't catch the sarcasm.
I started this thread to see if I actually played well, or the other person just played poorly. Of course I think I made some good moves for my rating. I was just wondering if I was right. What is obviously a good move for an 1800 may not be so obvious to a 1000.
Everything is relative.
I'd like to offer some general principles of play which would have improved Black's performance in the opening.
If you're going to defer castling -- sometimes justified -- make sure that what you get in return is worth it. While it's true that the queen's bishop can be difficult to place well in this opening, Black spends a lot of time fiddling with peripheral queenside pawns, in order to entomb his bishop on b7 using his own pawns on d5 and a6.
Another general principle: be aware that moving pawns forward can create holes. In this case, after playing ...d5, the move ...b6 now creates a hole on c6. The combination of delayed castling together with the hole eventually causes problems, because from very early on (after c4) White's queen has had access to the a4 square and from it a diagonal to Black's (still vulnerable) king; and his king's bishop has quick access to the same diagonal after playing cxd5 then Bb5.
This leads to another general principle that Black ignored and White was able to take advantage of in combination with the others: loose (unguarded) pieces are often the target of combinations. Black may have thought that his entombed bishop was safe and snug on b7, but note that no piece protected it. White used a sacrifice tactic to launch a combination winning the bishop and other material as well. The tactic was clever and not necessarily what a player of Black's rating would have been able to foresee; but what Black CAN do is to understand that, being unable to foresee all the tactics of strong players, one thing he can do to decrease their opportunities is to guard his pieces.
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Originally posted by Mark Adkinshi Mark Adkins, where have you been?
I'd like to offer some general principles of play which would have improved Black's performance in the opening.
If you're going to defer castling -- sometimes justified -- make sure that what you get in return is worth it. While it's true that the queen's bishop can be difficult to place well in this opening, Black spends a lot of time fiddling with ...[text shortened]... he can do to decrease their opportunities is to guard his pieces.
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Black spends a lot of time fiddling with peripheral queenside pawns, in order to entomb his bishop on b7 using his own pawns on d5 and a6.
a6 was in response to the knight on c3. I know it was late and I did it in the wrong order. I should have made the move a6 before the move Bd6. I'm trying to play the Colle Zukertort reversed. I've been told it is also called QGD.