Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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]
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.

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