well, I blundered away my queen in a game today. (Poster hangs his head in shame)
Anyway, before that I was in trouble, although I didn't even know it. In fact, everything seemed "sewed up Tight" I thought my defenses were pretty solid, and I didn't rerally see the chink in my armor, but my opponent did, and slid right in.Maybe someonre would be willing to go over the opening and show me where I went wrong, and perhaps suggest a better line to avoid what happened. If so, I would be much obliged.
Here is the game up to the opoint where I blundered away the lady. (I was white, and it was a queen's gambit declined, classical defense, I believe.)
1 d2 d4 , d7 d5
2 c2 c4 , d5xc4
3 g1 f3 , g8 f6
4 e2 e3 , e7 e6
5 f1 c4 , c7 c5
6 e1 g1 , a7 a6 ,
7 b1 c3 , b7 b5
8 c4 e2 , c8 b7
9 d1 c2 , b8 c6
10 d4xc5 , f8xc5
11 c1 d2 , d8 d6
12 a1 d1, a8 d8
13 g1 h1 , e8 g8
14 h2 h3 , c5 b4
15 g2 g3 , c6 e5
16 c2 b3 , e5xf3
17 e2xf3 , b7xf3+
18 h1 h2 , f3xd1
19 c3xb5 , d1 x b3
It's not so much the blundering away of the queen that bothers me, it's the events leading inevitably up to that fatal oversight. all through the game, it seemed there was relatively few viable moves at my disposal. I took what I could see, in y current state of chess developement. But I want to be able to clearly see what I was not ABLE to see during the game. Surely there must have been some hidden combination in there that I was blind to. Whaen I THOUGHT I saw a combination it inevitably led to disaster. Arrrrrgh!!
Originally posted by kingisdeadIt's a queen's gambit accepted.Black took(accepted) the gambit pawn.He did not hang on to it,but that doesn't matter,it was accepted.
well, I blundered away my queen in a game today. (Poster hangs his head in shame)
Anyway, before that I was in trouble, although I didn't even know it. In fact, everything seemed "sewed up Tight" I thought my defenses were pretty solid, and I didn't rerally see the chink in my armor, but my opponent did, and slid right in.Maybe someonre would b ...[text shortened]... I was blind to. Whaen I THOUGHT I saw a combination it inevitably led to disaster. Arrrrrgh!!
I'll tell you what caught my eye when I went through the game.
First thing was 7.Nc3,it allowed black to play b5 and resulted in you getting a cramped position,I think I would have played 7.a4 to prevent that,though that has the drawback of creating a hole on b4 which can be occupied by an enemy knight later on.Players familiar with these lines will be able to tell you if this is a problem or not.
I liked your 10.dxc5,it prevents black from creating a queenside majority(ok,he could have done that a few moves earlier,but he didn't),which I think would be very dangerous.It does have the drawback that you aid his development.
Up to there your position was,though a bit cramped,not losing,IMO.But then you went berserk,with 13.Kh1? 14.h3? 15.g3??effectively losing 2 pieces and an exchange.Hard to come up with a good move right away,but 13.Bc1 and 13.Ne4 would be the first moves for me to look at.
Hope that helps some.
Sir Lot.
We seem to share a common problem. can see our own combinations just fine...but turning the head around and realizing the opponant may be on a different channel totally. Its the difference between static and dynamic analysis. You are looking at how the opponant is going to react to you...when in effect, you may need to be reacting to his advance.