Can someone help me with a little bit of post mortem? My opponent made out of book move by swapping queens but that left me with developmental problems and claustrophobia. Could I play better to handle that weak doubled pawns which offered nice outpost for white?
I felt happy when my opponent reliefed the pressure instead of crushing me.
How I could play better? Where?
Thanks for helping!
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At a glance i noticed two things, maybe try and use the file opened for your rook early on by the queen swap by leaving your rook there as it is 'active' ish, so you could develop other peices. This is probably partly the reason why white's 'book' moves arent QxQ.
Also later on you take a knight for a bishop, on b5 (i think, from memory) and that not only leaves your opponent with a bishop pair, but locks in your doubled pawns meaning you cant activate them and possibly undouble them, or cause trouble with them further up the board. If you think still that taking the knight was your only real choice then you should look at the moves which lead you to need to take the knight, and see where you went wrong to leave you with such a choice.
i agree. the queen trade gives you an open file, but you later move the rook off the a-file, which allows the tactics 12. a4, etc.
13...BxN was a slight mistake as it yields the open file to white and the white pawn on b5 cramps black a bit.
why 15...Kd7? i would have played Bh6, castled, then played Ra8.
other small things, like 28...Rf8 just seem passive, although there isn't much else to do,
your main problem? nearly ALL your pawns were on black squares and you only had a black bishop!
but you played fine otherwise
Well, you could avoid that variation alltogether by not playing Bg4. But since you're in it, the right plan, imo is not to fianchetto because you want to proceed with a central french-like attack. It is also correct to place the rook on c8, as played, to guard c7 and because the c file can open up.
7.d3 Nc6 8.Na3 e6 9.Nb5 Rc8 10.Bf4 d5
(Now black need not worry about 11.Bd6 Be7 12.Bxe7 Nxe7.
Or about 11.Bc7 Nd7 12.O-O Na7 13.Nxa7 Rxc7 14.Nb5 Rc6 15.a4 Be7 16.a5 O-O 17.axb6 Rxb6)
11.e5 Nd7 12.d4 cxd4 13.cxd4 Ndb8 14.O-O Na6 15.Rc1 Nc7 and it's goodbye knight.
Originally posted by RegicidalThanks it helped me much! As you said fianchetto was bad idea I saw it soon after playing it...
Well, you could avoid that variation alltogether by not playing Bg4. But since you're in it, the right plan, imo is not to fianchetto because you want to proceed with a central french-like attack. It is also correct to place the rook on c8, as played, to guard c7 and because the c file can open up.
7.d3 Nc6 8.Na3 e6 9.Nb5 Rc8 10.Bf4 d5
(Now black ...[text shortened]... Rxb6)
11.e5 Nd7 12.d4 cxd4 13.cxd4 Ndb8 14.O-O Na6 15.Rc1 Nc7 and it's goodbye knight.