Annotated chess game

Nice game, nice win, but it really says nothing about 7... Bd6. The bishop stands on that square for all of two moves, achieving nothing during its stay, and then Freddy moves it back to a better square. All that really proves is that a player with a 700-point rating advantage can get away with dropping the occasional tempo.

7...Bd6 is a logical move. it is not so bad but it is also not so good.. There is only 1 tempo lost but there is no real positional gain for both sides. I found the words shocking a bit overdone so i picked it up. a opening like this with 7...Bd6 gives no real advantage or disadvantage

Since the game is slow and positional, the move does no harm, and it may tempt the opponent to unwise attempts to refute it.

14. d4 does put the question to Freddy's e5 pawn. In a double KP opening if white can safely put a pawn on d4 to accompany the one on e4 white usually has an edge.

This knight move is often played to drive back the b3 bishop releasing a pin on f7.

At the moment there is no apparent threat on g2 although looking at the position again the enemy queen can camp herself on g6 or g4.

Exactly. I needed to ask myself why Black had moved his Q from e7 to e6. What was he planning to do with it? Then I might have realised that from e7 the Wicked Witch couldn't get onto the g file because of my Ns, whereas from e6 she had two ways in.

White seems already in some trouble. If 18.g3 then Black can pick up a pawn by 18...Qg4 19.Nfd2 Qxd1 (supposing there's nothing better!) 20.Raxd1 Nh3+ 21.Kg2 (21.Kf1 Bxe4 22.Nxe4 d5! etc) 22...Nxf2 23.Ra1 Nxe4 24.Nxe4 Bd5 ...

I personally believe that this was whites downfall move. Sadly, I would've done the same thing. haha! I like the skewer queen/king diagonal as well.

White is in deep trouble even without this move. If a 2200 rated player seems oblivious to such an evident threat, there is usually a good reason. Failure to contest the center with d4 and allowing the advanced N to become entrenched was the cause of the downfall.

Indeed, and although Black emerges with a clear advantage after 19.g3, White is still in the fight. A possible line goes like this: 19.g3 Nh3+ 20.Kg2 Rxf3! 21.Qxf3 Nf4+! 22.Qxf4! exf4 23.bxa5 f3+ 24.Kh1 Qh3 25.Rg1. Maybe Black's plan then will be to brinhg his rook via e8 and e5 to h5. Can this be stopped effectively?

Wow! That would have been an exciting continuation. I wish I'd thought of it!

The knight move unwisely opens up the diagonal, and the pressure on f3 is fatal. An intesting display of how to mask plans so that once intervening pieces are out of the way, suddenly everything is in the right place.