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Can one of you experts give me some feedback on my opening here, especially with the bishop capture of knight at the beginning and the subsequent follow up which led to victory?

I'm curious if/where black made a mistake somewhere given his 2100 rating.

Game 5796116

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Originally posted by @uzless
Can one of you experts give me some feedback on my opening here, especially with the bishop capture of knight at the beginning and the subsequent follow up which led to victory?

I'm curious if/where black made a mistake somewhere given his 2100 rating.

Game 5796116
I'm no good at opening critiques.. but your opponnent wasn't a 2100 at the time of the game. His rating graph between Jan 2011 and Jul 2011 is interesting.

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I think he needs the most help with his opening. That is just an opinion of a nobody so hopefully someone much better comments.

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My 2 cents, for what they are worth.

PS I am probably not competent to comment on miller’s current level of play.


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1.d4f6
2.e4d6
3.Bf1c4Nb8c6
4.c3Bc8d7
5.Bc4xg8Rh8xg8
6.Qd1h5g6
7.Qh5xh7Rg8g7
8.Qh7h4a6
9.Ng1f3g5
10.Qh4h5Rg7f7
11.Bc1xg5Bf8g7
12.Bg5h6Bg7xh6
13.Qh5xh6e6
14.Nf3h4Nc6e7
15.Nb1d2Bd7b5
16.c4Bb5c6
17.d5exd5
18.exd5Ne7xd5
19.cxd5Bc6xd5
20.O-OKe8d7
21.Qh6h5Bd5e6
22.Nh4g6c5
23.Rf1e1Qd8b6
24.Ng6f4Rf7e7
25.Nf4xe6Qb6xb2
26.Nd2c4Qb2c3
27.Qh5e2Ra8e8
28.Nc4b6Kd7c6
29.Re1c1Qc3b4
30.Qe2f3Kc6xb6
31.Ra1b1Qb4xb1
32.Rc1xb1Kb6a7
33.g3Re8b8
34.Qf3xf6Re7d7
35.Qf6f5Rd7e7
36.Ne6g5b5
37.Ng5e4Rb8d8
38.Ne4xd6Rd8xd6
39.Qf5xc5Rd6b6
40.Qc5xe7Rb6b7
41.Qe7e5Rb7b6
42.Rb1c1a5
43.Rc1c7Ka7a6
44.Qe5e7b4
45.Rc7a7Ka6b5
46.Ra7b7Rb6xb7
47.Qe7xb7Kb5a4
48.h4Ka4a3
49.Qb7b5a4
50.h5b3
51.axb3axb3
52.Qb5a5Ka3b2
53.h6Kb2b1
54.h7b2
55.h8=QKb1c1
56.Qa5a3Kc1c2
57.Qh8xb2

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      Originally posted by @uzless
      Can one of you experts give me some feedback on my opening here, especially with the bishop capture of knight at the beginning and the subsequent follow up which led to victory?

      I'm curious if/where black made a mistake somewhere given his 2100 rating.

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      1...f6 is plain bad. BxN wins a free pawn, so that was right.

      You're not going to learn much about opening play from games with weak players like this guy.

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      People worry about giving up a bishop for a knight like this. On the one hand the bishop moves twice for a piece that hasn't. Two tempi are lost, the bishop is no longer there to exploit the weakened white squares after f6, and you give the opponent the two bishops. On the other it wins a pawn and messes up kingside castling. As usual you have to try and exploit the positives of your strategic choice. The BxN idea can be found in the theory of more recognized openings such as the QGD Baltic defence, Calabrese Counter Gambit. According to the explore games Miller tried 1.d4 f6 4 times with one win, the other 3 were against the same player, not the OP. At the time wasn't there a thing going on about the Hammerschlag?.

      For the first 3 years here miller was finishing 50 games per month at 1400 to 1500 level but by 2010 was hitting 1600 to 1700 regularly. In 2011 he slowed down to finishing 50 games in three months or more and his rating improved further.


      Originally posted by @thaughbaer
      I'm no good at opening critiques.. but your opponnent wasn't a 2100 at the time of the game. His rating graph between Jan 2011 and Jul 2011 is interesting.
      Interesting like those bad games were before he fired up the engine? Hard to believe a 2100 player would EVER produce games like this one.

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      Originally posted by @sonhouse
      Interesting like those bad games were before he fired up the engine? Hard to believe a 2100 player would EVER produce games like this one.
      Bad openings are not a result of playing too fast.


      Originally posted by @sonhouse
      Interesting like those bad games were before he fired up the engine? Hard to believe a 2100 player would EVER produce games like this one.
      The game posted was played back in 2008/2009 when rtmiller was rated around 1400-1500. Every good player was a beginner once, I don't see anything that indicates engine use.

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      "The game posted was played back in 2008/2009"

      That is what I was wondering. Why wait nearly 10 years before asking?

      anyway. Here.

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      The g8 Knight is looking pretty gloomy where it is.

      5.Qb3 threatens mate which given the first few moves of Black is a possible shot.
      This too wins a pawn, a good central pawn. 5...e6 6.Bxe6.

      Chances are Black may have played 5...Nh6 which has been seen
      on here a few time from a similar set-up. Game 10591446

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      So nice. Ne7 is checkmate too.

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      Moral to the story: In the opening develop your pieces instead of pushing pawns.

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      Thanks all. Just getting back into chess. Took several years off. Found it hard to complete one move per day chess with vacations etc and was timing out alot.

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      Originally posted by @uzless
      Thanks all. Just getting back into chess. Took several years off. Found it hard to complete one move per day chess with vacations etc and was timing out alot.
      Play 3 day 7 day bank or longer

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      Originally posted by @greenpawn34
      "The game posted was played back in 2008/2009"

      That is what I was wondering. Why wait nearly 10 years before asking?

      anyway. Here.

      [fen]r2qkbnr/pppbp1pp/2np1p2/8/2BPP3/2P5/PP3PPP/RNBQK1NR w KQkq - 0 5[/fen]
      The g8 Knight is looking pretty gloomy where it is.

      5.Qb3 threatens mate which given the first few moves of Black is a possible shot. ...[text shortened]... Game 10591446

      [fen]rn1qkbnr/ppp3pp/5p2/4p3/2B1P3/1Q6/PPP2PPP/RNB1K2R b KQkq - 0 7[/fen]
      Hi GP,
      I've got to agree, I like the light squared bishop here attacking all the light squares in blacks position and I don't think it's worth the somewhat trapped knight. On the other hand it allows white to make that queen foray, which did do some damage so I don't think it should be criticized too much as it's part of a plan rather than just a product of white not knowing how to proceed and giving up an asset out of not knowing what to do.

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