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sonata296 06-Mar-10, 23:07	What did I do wrong?!? Hello Club! Last friday I played an external competition game for my chess club and I played and lost, unfortunately, I don't really know where I went wrong, so I'm asking you to help me, I've annotated the game and you can view it here: gameknot.com I hope you have a good read and give me some advice, that'd be awesome! Ardin
pawnraider 28-Mar-10, 01:50	reference your external competition game after 5.f4 you are playing the Four Pawns Attack in the King's Indian Defense. If you don't know the latest theoretical lines for White, you are probably better off playing 5.f3 Saemish as it is very strong, even if a well booked Black will know the lines to reach equality, you will not likely lose if you are just familiar with them. A.Dunnington recommends the 4P to attack the KID & Benoni in his book, Attacking with 1d4. Black's best lines are MAIN LINES where he reaches very nice positions. Unfortunately, most KID specialists know the main lines and are familiar with that set of tactics. IMHO: there are two lines that KIDS players really dislike: 1) Saemish is a line that KID players really do not like. 2) the kingside fianchetto. In both openings, practice the lines in the generalist books and look at recent GM games. You need to be comfortable with the play and ideas. You need to be familiar enough to reach a middle game position where you KNOW what you should be doing.
andywm 29-Mar-10, 18:05	Indian Defense Sonata, Seems all was ok until move 15, white Kn d2. It seems that this is where he came after you and it was hard to recover afterwards. Any other thoughts?
sonata296 30-Mar-10, 12:30	thanks Thanks for both your opinions, truly appreciated!   To andywm: I analyzed afterwards with some stronger-rated people and they did show me Nd2 was wrong, I guess you are right. But before Nd2, I also had bad position (imo). but indeed, Nd2 was the worst move.
andywm 30-Mar-10, 13:23	sonata yes, that to me was the biggest blunder but I thought your game was fine up to that point and then it deteriorated
nugodog 08-May-10, 04:22	I think Listen to pawnraider, I don't know much about king's indian setups but yeah I do think the dark squared bishop is important for white. So maybe h3 was needed on move 7. I think the idea to castle queenside would be bad, black has a strong bishop. - I don't like Rac1 on move 14, maybe Rae1, with the idea to play e4 later on and lining up against the enemy queen. - After Ng4, white can maybe play h3? If Ne5 for black, then white can play Qe3 followed by Nd4 and Nb5 and play c5? I think white plays active on queenside in KIA structures. Reference openings, you should know what openings to play and what middlegame plans are for openings you play. -Nd2 is definately not a good move, I don't know what white's plan is. Black quickly capitalised on this after this move. Hope feedback helps!
bjorn-viking 29-May-10, 15:33	Deleted by bjorn-viking on 29-May-10, 18:26.

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