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Annotated by jamesxc (1513): 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 … |
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Annotated by danilsafin (1768): 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… |
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Annotated by thitho (1200): too bad this game ended so fast. I had many things in head for the ending... But arch-nemesis decided the wrong 27th move. Please go on move 27th and try to develop the various possible endings. I asked my opponent if he decided to invent an opening you must recognize this is castling.............. so i take the space... i prefer this to keep my bishop active, and reduce the castle … |
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Annotated by patralgan (1877): 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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Annotated by throneseeker (1200): The English? I like having my Bishop in charge of the long diagonal. If I am lucky he will move his King Bishop out before shielding g2. No such luck!! We both seem to have reach an initial position in which we are somewhat comfortable. (But having been away from the board for some months I was not really comfortable with any position!) He begins struggle by undertaking some action… |
