Missteps and losses

Once again we see I go with yet another Caro-Kann  I’m starting to see a trend. Although I got out of theory pretty quickly when I had a slight mouse slip on move 3 and I hung a piece in the middle game which was ultimately why I lost.

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KOKANEE - Caseylj

1-0, 2015.03.26.

[#] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Be6 Standard advanced Caro-Kann however i had what I will call a mouse slip and dropped the bishop one square to short. 4.Nf3 f6 I played f6 hoping that he would trade and I would be able to get my Knight out but if he doesn’t then I am going to have a hard time developing the Knight. 5.Bd3 Nd7 6.O-O Nb6 7.Qe1 Nh6 Due to the queen behind the pawn I didn’t feel I could move the Bishop on e6 for fear of having the pawn pushed to e6 and then being force to trade queens on d7 after I have to sac the bishop to get the pawn of the 6th rank.

[7...Bd7 8.e6 Bxe6 9.Qxe6 Qd7 10.Qxd7 Nxd7 ]

8.Bxh6 gxh6 9.exf6 Qd7 10.Ne5 Qc8 11.fxe7 Bxe7 12.Nc3 Nc4 13.Bxc4 dxc4 14.Qe2 Rg8 15.Qh5 Rg6 16.Nxg6 hxg6 17.Qxg6 Bf7 18.Qxh6 Qe6 19.Qxe6 Bxe6 Even with the poor play I thought that I stood a chance to get a win here if I played flawless. 20.Rfe1 Kf7 21.Re2 Rg8 22.Kh1 Bd5 And with that the game is over, the lapsed time for that move was less than 2 seconds, being down an exchange and two pawns I could not afford a trade. 23.Nxd5 cxd5 24.Rae1 Bd6 25.g3 b5 26.Re6 Rd8 27.h4 Bb4 28.c3 Bf8 29.h5 b4 30.g4 a5 31.g5 Connected passers and doubled up rooks keeping the king on the kingside, nothing can be done, I should have resigned when I traded the bishop for the knight. Black resigns [1-0]

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This game was all about attention to detail and what happens when you venture from theory too early in the game without a proper plan.

TeamLeague Prep

I’m still getting ready for the start of TeamLeague 59, which starts March 31^st can’t wait to get some 45 45 action going :)

Working on the English, I tend to play one of two ways, against 1… e5 I play 2 e4 stopping me from fianchettoing the bishop on g2 but allowing me to guard c4 with the bishop.  Then bring out the knight to f3 Be2 and Be3 or Bg4 to force Be7.  But let’s see how this game turned out J  I will do the next game tomorrow. 

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Caseylj - KOKANEE

1-0, 2015.03.26.

[#] 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.e4 I play this a lot, it doesn’t seem too sound only 221 games in my database have played this move with only a 40% win chance for white. The higher rated players (2450 +) in this opening are playing black and usually win these games, this does not seem to be a sound decision in higher rated play but I have had some success as white against lower rated players. All things being considered I need to find a better way to combat 2 e5. 3...Nf6 4.d3 Here, my idea is to play Nf3 then Be2 after Bg4 4...Be7 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.h3 With his pawns on the dark squares I am really happy to exchange the light squared bishops or in this case trade it for a Knight. 7...Bxf3 8.Bxf3 Nd4 9.Be3 Nc6 10.Nd5 I made this move almost immediately thing that we would trade out the Knights, and I would have the Bishop pair against his Knight and Bishop 10...Qd7 11.g4 Here I am prepping a minority attack on the king side, which he stops with h6, which is what i had expected, then I plan to move the queen to the queenside to force some weakening moves. 11...h6 12.Qb3 O-O-O 13.h4 Kb8 14.O-O-O Nxg4 This move shocked me I thought he was going to go Nxd5 cxd5 Na5 then Qc3 or Qa3 and I am unclear on how this would go. However, Nxg4 Nxe7 Nxe3 Nxc6+ Qxe6 fxe3 and white is up an entire piece. 15.Nxe7 Nxe3

[15...Nxe7 16.Bxg4 Qxg4 Here i think black has a solid advantage (stockfish says -.50 so not overwhelming) because i dont really have a plan except Rdg1 Qf3 Qd1 and exchange queens and play the rook endgame a pawn down. probably not going to win.]

16.Nxc6 Qxc6 17.fxe3 And that is what happened, after that i go for the queen exchange to win in the endgame up a full piece 17...Qc5 18.d4 exd4 19.exd4 Qb6 20.Qxb6 cxb6 21.e5 dxe5 22.dxe5 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Re8 24.Rd5 a6 25.Kc2 f6 26.exf6 gxf6 27.b4 Re6 28.Rd8 Ka7 29.Rd7 b5 30.Rxb7 Ka8 31.Rb6 Black resigns [1-0]

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