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Yet again doubled pawns and its pretty damn good for black, the extra central pawn is woooey always giving black the option of challenging whites center.

In general if you have to double your pawns capture towards the center.

My tutor was running through openings with me and we were doing the classical sicilian she showed me the opening from one of her games against a 2300 player


1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8.Bb3 Bd7

9. Ndb5 Qb8 her comments here were to the effect of white spent 20 mins thinking and then came up with the plan to double my pawns...she seemed very amused by it.

10. Bg5 a6 11. Bxf6 gxf6 Here comments her was ok doubled pawns but Im happy with this!

12. Nd4 Nxd4 13. Qxd4 Qa7 Yes lets go into an endgame!

14. Qd2 White finally cottons on (you could sense the feeling she had behind the words of "stupid 2300 player!" lol) and avoids the queen trade. My tutor is 2460ish it really did seem to tickle her funny bone that white would play in such a manner


Qc5

[Event "Carinus Grouped Random"]
[Site "http://www.chessatwork.com"]
[Round "1"]
[White "HomerJSimpson"]
[Black "mtthw"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

English, another opening I dont play 🙂

1. c4 Nf6
2. Nc3 g6
3. g3 Bg7
4. Bg2 O-O
5. Nf3 d6
6. O-O e5
7. d3 c6
8. b4 Re8
9. e4 d5
10. c5 Na6

While c5 gains space it seems to be a little bleh after a5

bxa5 Qxa5 just looks great for black.

a3 loses on the spot after axb4 and the a pawn is pinned to the rook

b5 d5 kicking the knight away Ne2 and then just cxb5 winning the pawn. Na4 seems a little more challenging cxb5 Nb6 Ra6 Rb1 b5 a3 looks very intresting.


11. a3 Nc7
12. Bb2 dxe4
13. dxe4 Bg4
14. Qxd8 Raxd8

By trading queens I guess you are trying to draw. I much prefer Qc2 here. maybe 14.Qc2 Qe7 15.Nd2 Rad8 15.Nc4Ne6 and dropping the knight into d6. White should be able to control blacks outpost on d4 but it looks hard for black to challenge on d6

15. h3 Bxf3
16. Bxf3 Ne6
17. Bg2 Re7
18. Rad1 Red7
19. Rxd7 Rxd7
20. Rd1 Rxd1+
21. Nxd1 Nd7
22. Nc3 b6
23. cxb6 Nxb6
24. Bf1 Bf8
25. Kg2 f6
26. Bc1 Kf7
27. f4 Bd6
28. f5 Nd4
29. g4 Ke7
30. fxg6 hxg6
31. h4 Ne6
32. Kg3 Kf7
33. Be3 Ng7
34. Be2 Ne6
35. b5 Nd4
36. bxc6 Nxc6
37. Nb5 Bb8 1/2-1/2

If you were playing for a draw you did pretty good, your ending position looks nicer than blacks although is probably a total draw.

Game 2755096

The game against DoctorDara. I will add comments soon although if anyone wants to start go for it 🙂

Originally posted by Bedlam
Game 2755096

The game against DoctorDara. I will add comments soon although if anyone wants to start go for it 🙂

Originally posted by Shinidoki
I know the first 2 moves are B01: Scandinavian

....but 3.f3?? seems odd, I think the more common move is Nc3.


6.Bg5 doesn't seem to achive much (seeing as the Knight isn't pinned)

following Ne4 white seems to lose tempo.


9. Nxh7....very short sighted, and will lose the knight one way or another....Be7 (prevents Ng5.) ... 10.g6 the knights a gonna.

Well whites pawn hunting in the beginning isnt a great idea. I dont think whites position is that bad right now, but it requires super duper woooooper active play, anything sissy and quiet is just going to allow black to consolidate and make his material advantage work. White pretty much needs to take advantage of the development advantage she has and strike while the iron is hot.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
I think 3.f3 is actually very common, one of the top RHPers (hww maybe?) plays this opening and I remember seeing him use the move 3.f3 - it looks similar to a Smith-Morra Gambit plan.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer?node=544614&move=3&moves=e4.d5.d4.dxe4&nodes=21720.287531.288760.544614

Nc3 = 305games
f3 = 008games

Originally posted by Bedlam
Game 2755096

The game against DoctorDara. I will add comments soon although if anyone wants to start go for it 🙂

Originally posted by omulcusobolani
In a blitz game I would rather have white in this position, white can get a dangerous initiative if she plays actively but this is cc and the rating difference between you is huge, are you going to play some inferior moves like dragonfire did against his pupil?

Trying to play the game that will help their weaknesses go away.....in DoctorDara's case this was often awful development problem in the opening. c3 wasnt great in this game and we talked about it on the game message. I quite like whites position here.....I wouldnt have played this way but I wouldnt be unhappy to swap colours.....id pretty much take a sac and king hunt approach for white from here.

I am slipping here. You are running away from me on this. Well done! Keep it up. 🙂

Homer, why arent you rated much higher......your play in the games goes quite a bit past your rating. Its not very aggressive or pressing though, this might hold you back?

Game 2540464

[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.chessatwork.com"]
[White "ckoh1965"]
[Black "Ah Boy"]
[Result "1-0"]


1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Nf6
3. Bb5+ Bd7
4. Bc4 c6
5. Nc3 cxd5
6. Nxd5 Nc6
7. Nf3 Nxd5
8. Bxd5 e6
9. Bb3 Na5

Here I much prefer Bc4, after e6 his light square bishop isnt the most happy piece in the world 9.Bc4 Na5 10.Be2 and one of his pieces isnt going to be well placed. You always have to ask yourself how many good squares do they have and how many pieces to go on those good squares. This is why when you have a space advantage etc you should avoid trading 2 good squares and 3 pieces = 1 bad piece 🙂



10. c3 Nxb3

Not sure why you played c3.....to avoid the doubled pawns? Id have just gone with 10.d4 Nxb3 11.axb3 Bd6 and then c4 or 0-0 then c4, just taking a nice space advantage.

11. Qxb3 Bc6
12. O-O Bd6

0-0 seems risky.....the simple 12...Bxf3 13.gxf3 Qg5+ stopping white from giving checks to the black king looks great for black.

13. Qd1 O-O

Qd1......hate it. I did like Nd4 at first until I saw 13.Nd4 Bxh2 14.Kxh2 Qh4+ 15.Kg1 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Qg4+ forcing a draw on the spot. 🙁 Maybe Qd1 is best I still dont like it.

14. d4 Qc7
15. Bd2 Rad8

Not sure what Bd2 does, at the very least you should stop blacks plan of Bxf3 Qxf3 Bxh2+

16. g3 Qa5

Qa5.....id jump on the chance to play c4 here. You must remember chess is made up of more than just material......space, development and control are key factors in chess. Your moves must be aimed at gaining these.

17. Re1 Qb5
18. b4 Qd5

Here id try 18.Ne5, trying to get a bishop of oppsite colour middle game and maybe some counter play. Bxe5 19.Rxe5 Qxb2 20.Rb1 Qxa1 21. Ra1 Qc4 22.Rxa7. While its true black is better coordinated white isnt reduced to the grrrry passive defence that happened in the game around the knight on f3.

19. Kg2 Bc7
20. Qe2 Qf5
21. a4 a6
22. h3 Rfe8
23. Be3 e5
24. b5 Be4
25. g4 Qf6
26. Rad1 h5
27. gxh5 exd4
28. Rxd4 axb5
29. Rxd8 Bxd8
30. axb5 Qxc3
31. Rc1 Qf6
32. Rc4 Qe6

Rc4 strikes me as being wrong on so many levels. Putting your pieces on the same colour as the other persons bishop is just asking for trouble at the very least Qe6 threatening the rook Rc1 Qf5 is a much improved position for black.

33. Rc1 Be7

Oh he played Qe6 lol.....I much prefer Qf5 to his Be7 though 🙂

34. Rg1 Qf5
35. Bc1 Bf6
36. h6 Bc6
37. Qd1 Bd7
38. Rh1 Bxb5
39. Qd6 Bc6
40. Qg3 Re2
41. Rf1 g5
42. Qg4 Qd5
43. Be3 Bd7
44. Qg3 Kh8
45. Kh2 Bc6
46. Bxg5 Bc3
47. Rg1 Re8
48. h7 f5
49. Bh6 Qf7
50. Ng5 Qf6
51. Ne4 Qe5
52. f4 Kxh7
53. fxe5 Bxe5
54. Bf4 Bxf4
55. Qxf4 1-0

Nice ending you turned it around well 🙂