| Dec-10-05 |
| chesscrazy: Nice game! |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| aw1988: White clearly doesn't play the first 7 moves properly... |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| azaris: How so? The opening is pretty orthodox for the British Championships. |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| aw1988: Look at it: good knight, good queen, possibilities of a Svesh-like pawn storm later... what does White have? Playing e4 concedes d4, for example. Black's followup play is certainly far from best. Why not Nd5 Qd6, when the knight can go to c6? Or else if not a pawn storm, the Black bishop can go to h6, he seems very active... |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| azaris: Like you said, it's a Sveshnikov type position (which Black totally misplays by leaving his king in the center), but that can hardly mean it's a failed opening from White. |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| aw1988: Hey, come to think of it, I can't see how White can improve. Sorry... |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| Assassinater: Forgive my patzer's eye, but isn't this a 0-1 and not a 1-0 position at the end? In any case, look at how far chess (theory, maybe?) has progressed! A move such as 5. d6 doesn't even warrant an exclam by some commentators. Now, onto the game... General flow of the game is that while white did manage to build up a nice advantage, he wasted it all with 20. Kf1?!, when 20. 0-0 seems much better. A quick glance over shows that black missed the crushing 22. Nxe2+!, winning at once (dual threat on c3 and f2). White's attack then gathered steam and seemed to be winning, but he messed up somewhere; quite possibly 33. Qxd8+ was the culprit, where Rxd8+ keeps the attack flowing. |
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sac: 36...Rxf7+