For the last three weeks I have been
playing less blitz as I was on full blown tilt. My Chess24 rating went from my
high of nearly 1420 down to under 1000. Generally, I play about 6 to 8 hours of chess
a weekend so I decided to play no more than 5 blitz games a day and to spend
the rest of the time studying. Over the last couple of years I have amassed not
a bad little library. I like the Move by Move series for the chess openings and
have one for each of my favorite opening. I also have the complete Jeremy
Silman collection and I am basing my study plan on working my way through his
books and problems combined with opening study with the Move by Move and use of
Chessbase. I will go into that in more detail as I fully develop a solid plan
that works for me.
Today however was the start of the
TeamLeauge 63. I play board 4 for my
team in the Polgar section (>1500) my current FICS is 1241. I was matched up
with Nitreb and in our previous encounters we have split 1-1 with me having
black in both games. Today I was white and planned on using the English opening
I have been working on. Looking up my opponent in the FICS database I saw that
he has not faced the English in a TeamLeague game for the last two years nor
has he played the English so I thought I had a good chance to get an advantage
out of the opening.
Here is the game let me know if you
do not agree with any of my anyalsis (I will not use my engines for this).
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
 |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
| Caseylj 1241 - Nitreb 1485 |
| 1-0 (FICS rated standard game) 2016.04.24 |
[4...e4
5.Ng5
Bb4
6.d5
Ne5
7.Qd4
d6
8.Ngxe4
Nxe4
9.Qxe4
]
5.Nxd4
Nxd4
I was shocked by this move, it is common in blitz but i was expecting Bg4 which i would have followed up with Bg5 h6 Bh4 keeping the pin and forcing black to make a descison on his kingside security. 6.Qxd4
Be7
7.Bg5
d6
prepping to kick the Queen i beleive 0-0 would have been much better as his king will get stuck in the center in a few more moves 8.e3
Bf5
9.Nd5
c6
[9...Nxd5
10.Qxd5
Bxg5
11.Qxf5
O-O
Here i think black may be slightly better, 12. Bd3 g6 follwed eventually getting the black bishiop on g7should be good for black. White still must 0-0 and black should have the inititive. because of this i took with the Knight]
10.Nxe7
Qa5
wasnt sure about this move, thing it is just not good for black 11.Qc3
didnt mind the dubble pawns, i wanted to keep the option of castleing 11...Qxc3
12.bxc3
Kxe7
13.Be2
h6
14.Bh4
g5
15.Bg3
Ne4
Here i decied to go a little passive with gaurding the c3 pawn, wasnt sure how much better i would have been in this situation 16.Rc1
h5
he is spending a lot of time to wrap up this bishiop but h3 Bh2 and he is safe 17.h3
Nxg3
This allows a nice discovered attack on the Bishop after 0-0. 18.fxg3
Rhd8
free pawn leads to Rf7+ after 0-0 winning the pawn on b7 and i should be able to win the game from there 19.Bxh5
d5
20.O-O
Bd3
Black resigned after this move, Bg7 or Be7 leads to a better endgame for black. if i exchange the bishops black has a moster pawn formation on the queenside and white is stuck trying to defend 4 pawn islands
[20...Bd3
21.Rxf7
Kd6
22.cxd5
cxd5
23.Rxb7
White should be able to hold this;
20...Be6
]
[1-0] 
