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While playing this game, I had a short but nice chat with my opponent, and he acknowledged me as one of the nicks he reads on comments from time to time. Yes, I comment a lot... and, as it is natural, I must have been dead wrong sometimes... I hope I didn't this time... After it, I wanted to replay, but by mistake I clicked "new game", and it was impossible to find him again. I'll invite him to comment here, since the game was interesting. |
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1. e4
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After listenting to the comments, I realized this is not a good annotation in many aspects... forgive me and, if you want to go throug it, don't forget to read comments. |
 
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1... d5
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Who knows me knows I always play "my Scandivian". This was a nice example of the queen's exchange variation, one of the worst for black (IME :-). |
1 comment
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2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qe5+ 4. Qe2
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This is the queen's exchange variation. Of course black can try to avoid the exchange, and take advantage of the miplaced white's queen. But, in return, his own queen is misplaced and easily chased all around the board. Nc6, defending it, allows a tempo for Nd5, that black must avoid at any cost. And about Qa5, I can recommend it only in another line (where white plays d4 earlier). |
4 comments
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4... Qxe2+ 5. Bxe2
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Three pieces against no pieces is a huge advantage, but look at the pawns... and I bet black have a smooth developement here. The main point would be the control of the black diagonal h2-b8. |
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5... c6
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This is not as odd as it seems, since it is the best way for black to prevent knight's jumps. Of course it causes weakness on the black squares black would have to cope with. |
4 comments
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6. Nf3
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According to the last vision, black would better open the way for his dsb, occupying the center, with d4. Probably white just wants to take it easy. |
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6... Bf5
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Developing with tempo, at last. |
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7. d3
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White can try Nd4, here, to which I would just go Bg6. The white's knight will be rejected with tempo in most lines after this. |
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7... Nd7
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Here, I normally have to choose between e6 or e5. I've not played enough games to say which is better, provided that e6 sets a strong defence, though giving the dark squares (and betting white cannot do too much harm on them), or the tempting e5, that blocks white's dsb but sets a target for white, that in that case has developement advantage (by castling and Re1). So I decided to try something new, giving priority to my king's "safety" (I normally castle queenside in my Scandivian. White's attacks over the queenside are well known to me, and I still believe I can survive by attacking white's kingside (the kind of game I like :-). What about the lsb? Even if it seems bad, I assume it would be exchanged by the knight now in f3, and there is no problem at all, provided it makes me semi-open the h file... |
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8. O-O
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Delaying Bf4. |
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8... O-O-O
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Tempting him to Bf4... I'll see later what to do with the center. |
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9. Bf4
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Finally... :-) |
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9... f6
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Ok, now that I'm castled, I can try to fight for the black squares. So no developement, again. |
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10. b3
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IMO, a mistake. White should fight for the center, with d4, here, an excellent outpost that controls my knight on d7 and prevents e5, since after the exchange, my pawn will be exposed and my king... even more.
During the game, I thought that white feared Bxc2, but in fact this would have favoured him, by opening lines against my weak castled king.
The played move gets me the chance to reverse my selflocked position with the thriumphant... |
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10... e5
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Note that this move also deprives my Nd7 of another useful square but... c'est la vie! |
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11. Be3
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Setting the classic a7 threat. I still have to study in which conditions can white take the pawn without losing the bishop or, by sacrifying it, win the game due to the queenside pawn's storm that follows. |
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11... Ba3
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The normal one would have been Bb4, but I tried to improve it, and I think I succeeded. |
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12. Nh4
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My threat was Bb2, of course, but white found a counterthreat. Now, my lsb is important to my position, but I saw the right moment to catch up in developement. |
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12... Ne7
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Afterwards, I realized that with NxB, NxN, Bg4, I have to go on with g6... an annoyin x-ray pin, but hey! I still have the Bb2 threat to be dealt with... |
2 comments
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13. Na4
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I'm not sure if my opponent missed b5, or he was tempting me to it in order to weaken c6... but it was unlikely. White's move here was Rb1, and then try to exchange my annoying bishop. As always, it's easy to see afterwards. |
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