ANNOTATED GAME

London system game
thewinner69 (1650) vs. sarar6666 (1656)
Annotated by: thewinner69 (1553)
Chess opening: Queen's pawn, Mason variation (D00)
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1. d4
// I have to say that English is not my native lenguage so sorry if you can understand me. I always start with 1.d4. With the london system. I dont like study so much theory and the london has less than other openings.

 
1... d5
The classical responde giving the control in the center with a pawn with the same idea than me.

 
2. Bf4
my bishop go to a interesting square where will work in the h2-b8 diagonal. This a characteristic move in the london system.

 
2... Nc6
His knight go to c6. His idea will be play like chigorin defense with his bishop in g4 to stick my knight trying e5 ASAP.Anyway this is hard thanks to my bishop and pawn that overprotect e5. Besides Knight c6 has a problem the pawn in c7 is blocked and in these structures is important a pawn in c6 to give more squares to the queen and to keep the center.

 
3. e3
I let my white bishop develop and consolidate my small but safe center.

 
3... Nf6 4. Nf3
Im just developing

 
4... Bg4
The first idea of his plan , he is trying e5 but he will never get it.

 
5. Nbd2
I want to capture with my knight in case of bxf3

 
5... e6
He realised he couldnt do e5 so he consolidate his small center with e6

 
6. c4
I start to attack his center. He hasnt the pawn in c6(so he cant do qb6) and my idea is attack the weak pawn in b7 because his white bishop is out of his pawn chain.

 
6... Be7 7. Qb3
First idea of my plan attack the weak pawn

 
7... Rb8
I think its a good move to avoid weaken the pawn chain. I dont like qc8(my tower in c8 will be a problem for black in the future) or qd7 because the queen will play less in these squares.

 
8. cxd5
I wanna use my open C file.

 
8... Nxd5
I think exd5 maybe is safer and more positional but capturing with the knight is a good choice and more dynamic.

 
9. Bg3
He is threating my important bishop so i retreat.

 
9... O-O 10. a3
Maybe unnecessary but i thought b4 square was a bit weak because 3 pieces of black could jump here.

 
10... h6
A wait move? or just a bit useless. It covers some jumps with weaken the castle.

 
11. Rc1
Time to claim my open file.

 
11... Bd6
He porpuse me a change of bishop. Im not interesting to wait a change to open my h file because i wanted to play in queenside. Besides he has the pawn in c7 and not in c6 so i thought my bishop was worse than their.

 
12. Bxd6 Qxd6 13. Nc4
I gain a tempo. I wanted to put a knight in e5

 

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