Annotated by safin (1759): This game started out very weakly, with both sides making serious mistakes in the opening. Middlegame was marked by white's initiative, and the game ended after a very interesting combination/sac by white on move 20. By transposition, game arrives at a common position in English opening. Usual line is 5... Nb6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. 0-0 Be7
Black might also choose 5... Be6 6. Nf3 Nc6 I believe…
Annotated by jamesxc (1377): This game is intended to teach an amateur player why not to overexpose their queen in the opening.
1. c4 is known as the English Opening, and is one of my favorites, because though it often draws at the elite level, among amateurs, it simply produces positions that are not suceptable to common tricks and traps that amateurs learn from more skilled players. A playable gambit, though it must be …
Annotated by ckytep (1758): Here is one of my best games, if not _the_ best
I was informed about this match just few hours prior to the game. It was 9:30 at morning and I had slept just few hours, I had my medication (atopic eczema) going on so I certanly wasn't at my best form, I was about to decline this game, but as the game would start at 12:00 I could sleep a few hours, so I accepted it. It turned out that I was in…
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