Landes, Eric (1245) - unnamed (1749)
Result: 0-1
Site: ?
Date: 2012.06.09
[...] 1.d4 ¤f6 2.¤f3 e6 3.¥f4 c5 4.c3 ¤c6 5.e3 d5 6.¤bd2 ¥d6 7.¥g3 O-O 8.¥e2 Out of book here. Should have been 8. Bd3.
(8.¥d3 c4 9.¥c2 b5 10.a3) 8...a6 9.O-O b5 He might have been better off here exchanging bishops and messing up my pawns.
10.a3 I really needed to get rid of that c5 pawn. Had plenty of chances, but this is when it should have happened.
10...c4 11.¥xd6 £xd6 12.b4 b3 was probably better. This forces things open, and not necessarily to my advantage.
12...cxb3 13.¤xb3 Taking with the queen might have been better, but I was fixated on getting my knight to c5.
13...¥d7 I really didn't see the point of this. a4-e8 diagonal?
14.¤c5 ¤e7 I expected Ne4 here. 15.¥d3 ¦fb8 Not convinced this was the right file, but it certainly made me think.
16.£c2 g6 17.¤e5 At this point, I liked my position but wasn't entirely sure how to progress.
17...¤c8 I found out later, he was eyeing a4 for this knight.
18.e4 Looking at this now, I think the queen's on the wrong diagonal. She needs to be on d1 or e2. This pawn break is suspect.
18...dxe4 19.¤xe4 a blunder. Should have either taken with the bishop, or taken the d7 bishop instead.
19...¤xe4 20.¥xe4 ¦a7 21.¦fe1 ¤b6 22.¦e3 I had considered throwing the h-pawn into the fray. Now would have been a good time. This rook excursion may have cost me the game.
22...¦c8 23.¦f3 again, kingside pawn rush. All his pieces are on the queen side. All mine are on the king side. This walks right into tactics.
23...¥e8 I had feared f5 here. It was probably the better move on his part.
24.£d2 ¦ac7 25.¤g4 This was me trying for complications. The c-pawn looked lost to me, and with that comes a heavy-piece breakthrough. So, I tried something.
25...f5 26.¤f6+ ¢h8 27.¤xe8 ¦xe8 28.¥c2 e5 29.¦e3 And, the losing move. I was looking at the rook hanging on e8, and simply did not see the knight fork. Hope Chess.
29...¤c4 30.£c1 ¤xe3 31.£xe3 £c6 32.a4 £xc3 33.£xc3 ¦xc3 34.¦a2 Bd1 loses more slowly. 34...exd4 35.f3 d3
(8.¥d3 c4 9.¥c2 b5 10.a3) 8...a6 9.O-O b5 He might have been better off here exchanging bishops and messing up my pawns.
10.a3 I really needed to get rid of that c5 pawn. Had plenty of chances, but this is when it should have happened.
10...c4 11.¥xd6 £xd6 12.b4 b3 was probably better. This forces things open, and not necessarily to my advantage.
12...cxb3 13.¤xb3 Taking with the queen might have been better, but I was fixated on getting my knight to c5.
13...¥d7 I really didn't see the point of this. a4-e8 diagonal?
14.¤c5 ¤e7 I expected Ne4 here. 15.¥d3 ¦fb8 Not convinced this was the right file, but it certainly made me think.
16.£c2 g6 17.¤e5 At this point, I liked my position but wasn't entirely sure how to progress.
17...¤c8 I found out later, he was eyeing a4 for this knight.
18.e4 Looking at this now, I think the queen's on the wrong diagonal. She needs to be on d1 or e2. This pawn break is suspect.
18...dxe4 19.¤xe4 a blunder. Should have either taken with the bishop, or taken the d7 bishop instead.
19...¤xe4 20.¥xe4 ¦a7 21.¦fe1 ¤b6 22.¦e3 I had considered throwing the h-pawn into the fray. Now would have been a good time. This rook excursion may have cost me the game.
22...¦c8 23.¦f3 again, kingside pawn rush. All his pieces are on the queen side. All mine are on the king side. This walks right into tactics.
23...¥e8 I had feared f5 here. It was probably the better move on his part.
24.£d2 ¦ac7 25.¤g4 This was me trying for complications. The c-pawn looked lost to me, and with that comes a heavy-piece breakthrough. So, I tried something.
25...f5 26.¤f6+ ¢h8 27.¤xe8 ¦xe8 28.¥c2 e5 29.¦e3 And, the losing move. I was looking at the rook hanging on e8, and simply did not see the knight fork. Hope Chess.
29...¤c4 30.£c1 ¤xe3 31.£xe3 £c6 32.a4 £xc3 33.£xc3 ¦xc3 34.¦a2 Bd1 loses more slowly. 34...exd4 35.f3 d3
unnamed (1755) - Landes, Eric (1245)
Result: 1-0
Site: ?
Date: 2012.06.09
[...] 1.f4 ¤f6 2.¤f3 g6 3.g3 d5 4.¥g2 ¥g7 5.d3 O-O 6.O-O c5 7.£e1 ¤c6 8.c3 ¥e6 9.e4 dxe4 10.dxe4 ¥c4 11.¦f2 ¤g4 and here's where I started going off the rails. Either Bd3 (aggressive) or e5 (less aggressive) were better moves. I really liked my game up to this point.
12.¦d2 £c7 13.¤a3 ¤a5 14.¤xc4 ¤xc4 15.¦e2 e5 This was not the time for e5. It's way over-protected. I needed to take the open file.
16.h3 And here's where I decided to try something. I thought it might work (as did my opponent) until his 18th move. I didn't see that.
16...exf4 17.hxg4 fxg3 18.e5 The move I didn't see. This pried everything open, as now my two sides of the board can't coordinate.
18...¦fe8 19.¥f4 f6 I needed to either take the open file or get the queen off this skewer.
20.¥xg3 fxe5 21.b3 As Anand just said recently, there are no good moves in bad positions.
21...¤a3 22.¤xe5 ¥xe5 Liquidating at this point is not in my best interests.
23.¥xe5 £b6 I needed to send the queen the other direction. This just accelerates the loss. I was looking at the discovered check, but never had time to pull it off.
24.¥d5+ ¢f8 25.£f2+ ¢e7 26.¥c7+ ¢d7 27.£f7+ ¦e7 28.¦xe7+ ¢c8 29.£e8#
12.¦d2 £c7 13.¤a3 ¤a5 14.¤xc4 ¤xc4 15.¦e2 e5 This was not the time for e5. It's way over-protected. I needed to take the open file.
16.h3 And here's where I decided to try something. I thought it might work (as did my opponent) until his 18th move. I didn't see that.
16...exf4 17.hxg4 fxg3 18.e5 The move I didn't see. This pried everything open, as now my two sides of the board can't coordinate.
18...¦fe8 19.¥f4 f6 I needed to either take the open file or get the queen off this skewer.
20.¥xg3 fxe5 21.b3 As Anand just said recently, there are no good moves in bad positions.
21...¤a3 22.¤xe5 ¥xe5 Liquidating at this point is not in my best interests.
23.¥xe5 £b6 I needed to send the queen the other direction. This just accelerates the loss. I was looking at the discovered check, but never had time to pull it off.
24.¥d5+ ¢f8 25.£f2+ ¢e7 26.¥c7+ ¢d7 27.£f7+ ¦e7 28.¦xe7+ ¢c8 29.£e8#
