e5 is a little dodgy. You need to develop your pieces before you can start to think about opening up the game. After e5 dxe5 Nxe5 dxe5 Qxd8 blacks king is stuck in the center and white has a nice game. After Bg5 e5 is possible since on Qxd8 the resource Rxd8 is now available.
8. d5 Nd4
Nd4 loses a pawn, both Nb4 and Ne7 were better.
9. Nxd4 exd4
10. Qxd4 Qf6
You are material down so trading isnt a great idea anyway add to that the fact that it will double the kingside pawns and Qf6 becomes a bad idea. Its hard to see what to play here for black...because of the Nd4 move your position is very unpleasant, maybe f6(a horrid move) which stops the queen from capturing on g7 then Be7 and 0-0 you could then thinking about using the f pawn as a battering ram and pushing it into whites position at the very least you should be able to build around the pawn once its pushed a bit.
11. Qxf6 gxf6
12. Bd3 h5
After seeing h5 I assumed you were going to play Rg8, if your intention was to castle then the pawn should probably be left on h7 for your happy pawn hugging king 🙂 If you look at the pawn stuctures here whites just happy and woo and blacks pawns are isolated, doubled and not very happy and wooo at all. Id probably play Bg7 and 0-0 although this leaves the d6 pawn a little exposed for a bit.
13. Be3 Bh6
14. Bd4 Bg5
15. h4 O-O
Save the bishop instead, he will thank you for it by helping you out on the board 🙂
Here Id of jumped on e5, theres a few reasons behind this move (providing it really does work 🙂 ) firstly your light square bishop is a slight problem piece after e5 you can bring it into the game. The other nice touch to e5 is that it gets that knight off the best square on the board. If you took that knight off the board and told white he could put it anywhere he liked in his own half im guessing a lot of people would plonk it down on d4.
I guess white has three choices here
13. Nc2 doesnt seem too bothersome after 0-0 black looks fine. I guess white would bring out the dark square bishop to g5 and then play Ne3 but it really does seem as though black is fine.
13.Ne2 black again can just 0-0 and seems ok
13.Nf3 black can again get away with 0-0 no trouble and follow up with Bg4. Hm 13..Qxd1 14.Rxd1 Bg4 looks intresting threatening to double whites pawns I guess white has to play 15. Re1 Bxf3 16.gxf3 Nd7 I assume white would play f4 here trying to keep blacks king in the center and bring out the bishop for 'free' as black id play 17..e4 18. Rxe4 Nc5 19. Rb3 Nxb3 20. Rxb3 0-0-0. Black seems to be fine here, white doesnt look like he has any winning chances at all the shattered kingside pawns take care of that.
Looking at your standard of play in this game im surprised you arent rated much higher, theres not much id change, more of a clash of styles than good/bad moves.
Its intresting looking through this game I feel as though I want to play certain moves and try the moves and find they just dont work. Here my chess instinct just wants c5 but after Bxc5 e4 N somewhere Qxd8....brrrr. Hm after looking at this position for quite sometime and trying to decide just how the hell to play it id probably go with g6 Bg7 Nd7 and c5 something along these lines. The Bd6 is semi temping but then I want to follow it up with h5 which isnt possible since e5 just stops that dead in its tracks.
Id be quite happy to see this as black, my instinct is now scrreeaaaamming f5 at some point but again doesnt seem to work 🙁
Hm the more I look at it the more I feel that e5 might have been wrong. Iv been looking at c6 dxc6 Nbxc6 but blacks position is far from harmonious after Rc1 white just feels better.
For me after e5 black has to hit back with a pawn break but it seems impossible to make a reasonable one. I dont know I will have to come back to it later after a lot more thought, is the opening theory? 🙂
13. Bb2 Nd7
14. Rc1 Ng6
15. Nd2 c5
You get in your c5 but after dxc6 I dont envy blacks position Bxc6 Nc4 Be7 Nd5 and whites game feels a lot more comfortable.
Maybe instead of c5 the f5 break is better exf5 Rxf5, I still dont like blacks position much but prefer it to the c5 one.
16. Nc4 Bc7
17. f4 exf4
18. d6 Bb8
19. gxf4 Nf6
Qh4 here, you need to get some counter play which is what you seemed to lack through this game, white was never in any trouble at all.
Originally posted by MoneyMaker7 I may be blonde but I'm not dumb 😛
Now I am a Malaysian, and English is not my first language. I just wonder where that stigma came from. I guess not all blondes are dumb, but are they really GENERALLLY dumb? I think it is such an unfair statement, but I have come across this phrase so many times: always, blondes are dumb. How did it start?
Originally posted by ckoh1965 Now I am a Malaysian, and English is not my first language. I just wonder where that stigma came from. I guess not all blondes are dumb, but are they really GENERALLLY dumb? I think it is such an unfair statement, but I have come across this phrase so many times: always, blondes are dumb. How did it start?