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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
First ICC G/65 of the new year..a win!
Today's G/65 (I am slowly bumping up the amount of time for these serious long games!) was a win for me. I was playing with the Black pieces. I played a 2...e6 Sicilian and almost bungled it early after a few VERY WRONG pawn moves. But my opponent traded queens too early and then continued pressing his attack when it was clearly over. Then I won the endgame.
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I hope everyone has a great night!!
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I hope everyone has a great night!!
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Hello ! Congratulations on your win ! Though I'm a bit surprised you use so many chess engines to analyze your game :-)
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest you try and post your own analysis first ? In my experience, it helps identify the biggest mistakes better.
Hi Laurent S:
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by! I agree that we should analyze our games on our own before we use the engines. That is in fact what I do. What I post here is the complete annotated game with my own observations and thoughts from the engines.
If I don't mention an engine in a variation than that is my own analysis.
And whenn I analyze with an engine(s), I never just let them run and then slap in the variation. I let the engine analyze individual positions and have it set so that I can not see the engine's choices. So when an engine disagrees with my evaluation I still spend a bit of time trying to figure out WHY and try to pick my own moves. I only put in the engine's move choice once I have tried on my own to figure it out.
This interactive method of analysis has helped me immensely of late as I have seen some major improvement in my game over the past few months.
Well done!
ReplyDeleteI play the 2 ... e6 Sicilian as black (played the dragon when I was much younger, but there's not nearly as much "theory" in the e6 ones and I don't have the time for the dragon anymore...) I play 4 ... Nc6 (usually a6 comes in the next move or two), but the Kan is just fine as well. :)
9 ... Nc6 is fine, there's no pressure on anything (you can castle next move) and it's not like that knight is going anywhere else.
The problem with your 10th move isn't necessarily "too many pawn moves" - it's that you already have a long-term positional advantage on the c-file, as he has doubled/isolated pawns on your half-open file. Playing b5 here just lets him get rid of that weakness.
After that though, bxc4 is fine but you have to castle afterward instead of taking the e-pawn.
I also like 25 ... Rb5. The "in english" reason (instead of computer-ese *chuckle*) is that you're going to eventually double rooks on the b-file. If he trades, you recapture with the c-pawn and now HIS c-pawn is again very weak and you don't have any isolated pawns anymore. (Your Bf5 there is also good!)
You'll find the tactic on move 24 (Rb5) next time! His previous move REALLY loosened the knight - just take a little more time there and you'll get it. :)
On move 27, it would have taken me about 2 seconds to play the same thing you did - you're up a pawn (which is a passed pawn on the opposite side from his king), plus you have B vs N with pawns on both sides of the board. I don't care what Houdini says there - you did the right thing! :)
Bah, should be 21 ... Rb5 up there, not 25. *oops*
ReplyDeletehey Jabari!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
Yeah I really wish I had played 21...Rb5. But that is how we learn.
I have also learned from playing and post analyzing that it is important to look at engine alternatives but if I play a winning move not to get too worked up if the engine prefers a "more" winning move.
I have been trouble lately with unhealthy pawn moves like my 10th move in this game. Gotta work on that. :)