I just won my 7th game in a row and my rating it up to 800. Yay!
Here was a fun game I played tonight. I'm white. Check it out starting with black's 15.b5 threatening my bishop.
No idea how I played this but I'll post my thoughts. I prefer my knights to my bishops but I want to end up with my bishop on b5 so I can pin his knight to his rook. Though I'm not sure this is good strategy since his bishop doesn't want to leave c8 anytime soon due to blocking my pawn. Anyway I sacrifice my knight so I can end up with my bishop on b5.
For some shocking reason he plays 16.a6 which is probably a massive blunder. I then play 17.Nd6 and fork his rook and bishop.
He plays 17. Rd8 which is another massive blunder. Well I'm a dummy and I'm still pre-occupied with my knight fork - so I'm looking around for almost 1 minute of a 10 minute game trying to figure out the best move with my knight. Then, of course I realize the correct play is 18. Cxd8=Q+ And my new Queen is completely safe! What a fun play this was. Thank God I looked around longer and realized "Derp" I can just take his rook. Total blank here. I'm not used to actually taking the 8th rank with a pawn. Anyway.
I then steal a bishop with 19th move. He doesn't take my knight so I use move 20 to get a safe check and discover my queen attack on his rook.
I take his rook, he takes my knight. I then start cleaning a bit and we make a trade and I eventually get him in CM, probably inefficiently.
Anyway this was a fun one. Let me know massive inefficiencies you spot. I'm a free member so I only get 1 computer analysis per week!
I would have much preferred to play 10. Bxd6. I love my 13.exd6 move. He scared my bishop but who cares? It's protected and I typically would trade a bishop for a knight anyway. And this way I get his pawn and put his queen in serious danger. I thought his 11.Qc7 was bad and now he's paying for it. So we end up trading Queens ...honestly when I saw him taking my bishop I didn't even look beyond that to see my queen was in danger. I could have taken his knight but I liked getting my pawn to the 7th rank. And simplifying the game since I tend to play slow.
Last edited by A-Rod's Cousin; 12-12-2013 at 04:00 AM.