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.
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.
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.
1. d4 f6 2. e4 d6 {A timid opening, at best, the sort of opening a novice might play.} 3. Bf1c4 Nb8c6 4. c3 Bc8d7 5. Bc4xg8 Rh8xg8 6. Qd1h5 g6 7. Qh5xh7 Rg8g7 8. Qh7h4 {This sort of early foray with the Q, at the expense of one's own development, does not often yield a sound position, unless, of course…} a6 {one's opponent continues to play timidly. Black might have tried … e6, … Qe7, … 0-0-0 with at least a decent game.} 9. Ng1f3 g5 10. Qh4h5 Rg7f7 11. Bc1xg5 Bf8g7 {Of course not … f6xB, for then Nxg5 threatening mate; … Be6 is nearly forced, then NxBe6 followed by Ng5 again threatening mate.} 12. Bg5h6 Bg7xh6 13. Qh5xh6 e6 14. Nf3h4 Nc6e7 15. Nb1d2 Bd7b5 16. c4 Bb5c6 17. d5 exd5 18. exd5 Ne7xd5 {Black is giving away free pieces here; looks like novice play to me. He has made considerable progress to arrive at a 2100+ rating since then.} 19. cxd5 Bc6xd5 20. O-O Ke8d7 21. Qh6h5 {White is dawdling here; get your rooks into the game.} Bd5e6 22. Nh4g6 {See previous comment.} c5 23. Rf1e1 {!} Qd8b6 24. Ng6f4 Rf7e7 25. Nf4xe6 Qb6xb2 {Of course not … RxNe6, for then Qf5 and the R falls.} 26. Nd2c4 Qb2c3 27. Qh5e2 {Oops, missed the obvious here: Nb6+ picking up a R for free.} Ra8e8 28. Nc4b6 Kd7c6 29. Re1c1 Qc3b4 30. Qe2f3 Kc6xb6 31. Ra1b1 Qb4xb1 32. Rc1xb1 Kb6a7 33. g3 Re8b8 34. Qf3xf6 Re7d7 35. Qf6f5 Rd7e7 36. Ne6g5 b5 37. Ng5e4 Rb8d8 38. Ne4xd6 Rd8xd6 39. Qf5xc5 {Black's goose is cooked now; White should make short shrift of it from here.} Rd6b6 40. Qc5xe7 Rb6b7 41. Qe7e5 {from here on, until move 57, White dawdles. A Q and R against a K and R should win in 6 or 7 moves. The general strategy is to pin the enemy R against the K on the diagonal with the Q, bring up the R to give check on a rank or file and force the K away from his R, and it's curtains. Better here was therefore Qc5+, and if … Rb6, then a4, etc. Or if Ka8 then Qc6, and if … Kb8 then Re1 etc.} Rb7b6 42. Rb1c1 a5 43. Rc1c7 Ka7a6 44. Qe5e7 b4 45. Rc7a7 Ka6b5 46. Ra7b7 Rb6xb7 47. Qe7xb7 Kb5a4 48. h4 Ka4a3 49. Qb7b5 a4 50. h5 b3 51. axb3 axb3 52. Qb5a5 Ka3b2 53. h6 Kb2b1 54. h7 b2 55. h8=Q {There is something deeply satisfying about having 2 Qs on the board.} Kb1c1 56. Qa5a3 Kc1c2 57. Qh8xb2 1-0
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
24 May '18 20:27
critique my opening?
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