I recently played this boner, I first used this attack a long time ago in a simul (I was playing 17 people ATT) and it worked there. However, in this game it totally backfired because white had a fiancetto'd bishop and I tried to keep my pawn. Big mistake. A good lesson, one tends not to forget these kind of things. Here is the link: Game 2281081
Originally posted by sonhouseThanks for posting this game, I am studying the queen gambit miself and I have never seen something like this, now I have new ideas on how to play it. and learned the lesson beforehand.
I recently played this boner, I first used this attack a long time ago in a simul (I was playing 17 people ATT) and it worked there. However, in this game it totally backfired because white had a fiancetto'd bishop and I tried to keep my pawn. Big mistake. A good lesson, one tends not to forget these kind of things. Here is the link: Game 2281081
I guess i should add some comments
1.d4 d5
2.c4 c6 going for Slav defence
3.g3 hmmm... the idea is that i want to transpose to Catalan where Black has already played c6
3. ... Bf5 this poses some positional problems to the above idea. In Catalan e4 break is almost a necessity for white and black cannot play Bf5 for controling e4 since e6 has already been played... so Bf5 makes things more difficult for e4 break but with this move the Black give up the long diagonal h1-a8
4. Bg2 a natural Catalan move
4. ... BxNb1?! it is in general not a good idea to trade a developed piece for an undeveloped piece
5. RxB Qa5+ aiming for the pawn at a2
6. Bd2 Qxa2 and not 6. Qd2? Qxa2 7.Qc2 dxc
7.cxd cxd no choise... the c pawn is threaten by d5 pawn and queen at a2 best defence is a good offence
8.Ra1 the idea here is: 8. ... Qxb Bxd5 and now i can play Nf3 without hiding the Bishop at g2 and keep the pressure at the square b7
8. ... Qc4??
9. Rc1 Qb5
10. Rc8+ Kd7
11.RxBf8 a5 white has a Bishop for a pawn & the 8th row i under my control
12.Qc1 also good is Qc2 with the threat Qf5+