I'm not a big fan of Bxc3 giving up the fianc. bishop. Especially since black will retain his light bishop. (you made good use of this later in the game against black.)
I prefer d3 in that situation. Complete development, castle and reassess.
Black messed up with Bxe5. 0-0 would have been better. After that you squeezed him positionally very nicely and finished off with some nice tactics.
I think that was a great game. Your opponent didn't have much calculating power or he would have seen that his move 24 was really not going to help and that his move 25 was absolutely putting the nail in the coffin 😉
Yes moves 24 and 25 were terrible for black. When I received the email with ... f6 I almost wrote Bxf6 back without any calculation.
The reason I chose the Qb3/Bxc6 line was that it offered me a very clear middlegame plan. I had 2 concerns:
1. The light squares around my king would be weak
2. My opponent could eaily (and later did) engineer an opposite color bishop game, which had it progressed to an endgame could have been drawn.
The advantage of the system is that with B3, Nc3-a4, Bb2 and Rc1 I can easily generate tremendous pressure against my opponents double-isolated c pawns. Ironically, the setup vaguly reminds me of playing a nimzo-indian (a defense I used to play regularily).
Please analyze my game
05 Mar '06 13:56
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