topping out

Originally posted by Wulebgr
Alas, he is still at +2 in our series, although I've won 3 of 4 since Y2K.

I'd like to see your most recent loss against him.

D

Originally posted by Ragnorak
I'd like to see your most recent loss against him.

D

[Event "Quads"]
[Site "River City"]
[Date "2005.08.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Wulebgr"]
[Black "Satan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E06"]
[WhiteElo "1568"]
[BlackElo "1476"]
[Annotator "Wulebgr"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2005.08.04"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 d5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c5 7. cxd5 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 exd5 9. O-O Nc6 10. a3 a6 11. Be3 Nxd4 12. Qxd4 (12. Bxd4) 12... Be6 13.
Qb6 {wastes time} 13... Qd7 14. Bc5 Bxc5 15. Qxc5 Rac8 16. Qd4 Rc4 17. Qd3 b5
18. Rad1 Rd8 19. Rd2 Bf5 20. Qe3 Re8 21. Qb6 Re6 22. Qa5 d4 23. Rfd1 Rd6 24. e3
h6 25. Rxd4 Rdxd4 26. exd4 Rxd4 27. Rc1 Bh3 28. Qxa6 Bxg2 29. Kxg2 Rd2 30. Ne4
{A terrific blunder that I spent seven minutes to concoct} (30. Qa8+ Kh7 31.
Ne4 Nxe4 32. Qxe4+ g6 33. Rc2) 30... Qd5 0-1

Originally posted by Ragnorak
I'd like to see your most recent loss against him.

D

well?

Originally posted by Wulebgr
well?

Sorry, I didn't have much to say. Your annotation pretty much summed it up; your queen couldn't find a good square and got chased all over, while he developed his pieces. You probably know yourself that you should have developed your rooks onto the c and d files, instead of messing about with your queen.

As Silman says, isolated d pawns normally result in lots of opportunities on the open c and e files, which your opponent used well.

D