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Tying your opponent up in knots

Tying your opponent up in knots

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Here is a game that I particularly enjoyed. Sort of instructive as to how to play slow positional chess and tying up your opponents movement and freedom.

Just one bad part about this game, and that was I left my pawn unprotected, but he also failed to see the chance to win my pawn.


Comments and criticisms welcome.....Game 529735

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I think your opponent violated the "attack where your pawns are pointing" maxim. He tried to ram an attack down the closed queenside, when, really, he had much better chances of making a break kingside.

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Isn't e4 hanging on move 15? What am I missing? If it does fall, then a4 does also as the N comes to c5.

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At move 16/17 your opponent's queen's rook was in the same sort of spider hole that they captured Saddam Hussein in. 😛

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Originally posted by Osse
Isn't e4 hanging on move 15? What am I missing? If it does fall, then a4 does also as the N comes to c5.
yes i moved too fast and missed the hanging pawn on e4.

fortunately my opponent missed it. just count that as a silly mistake on both our parts

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Originally posted by paultopia
I think your opponent violated the "attack where your pawns are pointing" maxim. He tried to ram an attack down the closed queenside, when, really, he had much better chances of making a break kingside.
yes i think my opponent was not aware of the ideas behind the Kings Indian. He tried to play on the queenside when instead he should have played on the kingside.

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Originally posted by Paul Dirac
At move 16/17 your opponent's queen's rook was in the same sort of spider hole that they captured Saddam Hussein in. 😛
yes thanks for that :p

basically after move 20, i got to work to bind down his queenside by attacking the backward pawn, tripling my pieces, and shutting down the a file with my knight, which also attacks his backward pawn.

as all his pieces had to defend the pawn, none of his pieces can move. His queen is trapped on the queenside and she cannot get out. its funny to see that he can only sit and wait and shuffle his king. as his pieces are unable to move or defend, i make a break on the kingside.