Game 573182
Not exactly the most exciting game in the world. ... two obvious blunders ... I was expecting 44..Qxh6 but he played Qh4+!?.
I was preparing for after 45. Kf3 for 45...Qh3+ and that continuation didn't look too good for me.
I was happy with a draw, but was there better play?
Originally posted by chatmeckeNot exciting . . . you should have seen the furniture flying around my apartment when I blundered away the Bishop!
Game 573182
Not exactly the most exciting game in the world. ... two obvious blunders ... I was expecting 44..Qxh6 but he played Qh4+!?.
I was preparing for after 45. Kf3 for 45...Qh3+ and that continuation didn't look too ...[text shortened]... ood for me.
I was happy with a draw, but was there better play?
I analyzed the game and I don't think your alternate line changes the result. If I had played 45 ..... Qh3+, your proper response would have been 46 Kf4. That would have allowed me to take the rook at g2, but without check. Interestingly, then you could have forced a draw with 47 Qf6+. I then am forced to play 47 ..... Ke8; then 48 Qh8+ Kf7 49 Qf6+, etc.
You could have varied at 46 Kf2, but then 46 Rd2+ looks like it will quickly mate or win the Queen (I have not analyzed it too deeply as it appears obviously wrong). Anyone else whaddya think?
I don't have anything useful to add in the way of analysis. But I would just note that prior to move 42 the material situation netted out to a bishop for white vs. three pawns for black. On the theory that a bishop is worth three pawns, I guess a draw was an eminently reasonable result. 🙂
I hear you on the bishop blunder...LOL. What I meant was there was no heavy attacking but lots of prophylaxis (sp?).
Anyway, after Qh3+ I would lose the rook with Kf2 because of Rd2+!...
So I would have to answer with Rg3, and after Rd3+, I'm forced to play Kf2. And after Qh2!! is what I was talking about.
Well it may not have been exciting, but it was certainly interesting. As for the possiblity of 45...Qh3+, it looks like you end up losing a rook if he throws in a ....Rd2+ later. But if black ever lets your king out of check for even one move from that point forward then you start checking him and gobbling pawns. Probably the safe thing for black was to just take the draw.
I thought black was a little too timid with you in the opening. Out of the first 12 moves you used 4 of them to get your queen's knight to c2. Nothing wrong with c2 for the knight, but 4 moves costs a lot of time.
Good game though!
Originally posted by wibWell, maybe, but I've learned from bitter experience that whenever my opponent as white opens with a non-center pawn, Reti or Larsen type opening with a bishop fianchetto and I exert my natural aggressiveness and push pawns and pieces into the center, experienced players in those openings hand me my head (usually minus a couple pawns at least). So I was aiming for a Sicilian Dragon type formation since White was obviously not going to Queen side castle. I thought I had a pretty good set up with my rook on a half-open file attacking a backward d-pawn and with a hole at d4 that I could try to occupy with a knight nullifying his dark bishop.
I thought black was a little too timid with you in the opening. Out of the first 12 moves you used 4 of them to get your queen's knight to c2. Nothing wrong with c2 for the knight, but 4 moves costs a lot of time.
Good game though! [/b]
I thought if I made a mistake (obviously not counting 33), it was in trying to capture the d-pawn after I was already two pawns up due to his blunder on 17. I think I should have been advancing pawns and trying to exchange pieces.
Only looked at the opening, the Bird rocks!
But one thing, that Queen Knight manouvre was just terrible! If you'd ask a GM about opening hints & tips for the opening, very likely that he/she will see that you shouldn't move a piece more than once! You moved it like 4 times, losing tempi and White got underdeveloped, Black could then (with a little help...), gain the iniative, set up his attack and bogle up a few pawns... try watching out for it, as the Bird can very good, but you need to stay aggresive!
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