i really don't see the issue with this game...
i haven't studied openings for a while nor played over the board, when i studied the scandi , i do analyse the games i play tho, Qd8 really doesnt need a lot of studying to know that you'll get a +0.7 to +1 out of the opening , Qa5 i always play b4 Qxb4, Rb8, followed by Bb7, and the queen moves 4 times in exchange for a pawn, and has no development, and its quite easy to play for white, and its also something like +0.5 to +1 , this Qd6 is a way more 'recent' move , that i haven't studied a lot , and its best by test, but in the scandi you can always just play solid , and end up with a much easier position to play despite having 0s on the computer
i obviously saw 11.Nb4 and its a free pawn for black , but goes against every chess principle .. Black is gonna need his knight to defend his king, he's pushing on the wrong side of the board , and i can give up my rook and get his knight to a1, and i saw i could plant my knight on e5 creating all sorts of tactics , i could take the pawn on a6, another critical defensive piece , and i could also plant the white bishop on c6, which is worth like 6 or 7 points .. his queen is stuck , his king side needs at least 3 tempos to develop , so just knowing that Nb4 cant be a good move and that there must be something ... obv i didnt calculate everything nor would anyone be able to , but a lot of tactics are gonna come up ofc .. im down 5 points in material , but his most active piece , the white bishop is disconnected from the king and taking a diagonal that i really don't need to use to press with an attack, his queen cant move, his king side bishop and rook already felt asleep , knowing that they are never gonna move
and i take 10m out of a 20m+6s game from move 11 to move 15 , so yeah i was really considering Na3, cause i can bring him back to attack and he has no pieces to defend his king
ofc there are 2 mistakes on my part where stockfish laughs at my moves
first of all he wants me to play B back to c4 instead of b3, im not even gonna try and understand why, probably to trap the knight , seems unnecessary
but later it does prove that black can defend with this ridiculous Kc8 move - variation - Kc8 20.Bb5 20.c6 21.Nxc6 21.Nb6+Kc7 22.Nxd5+ 22.Bxc6 23.Qc7 and black is winning
but yeah game goes on , 19. Bb6 19. Nd7 20. NxN 20. RxN, and i plant the bishop , just eliminating all the knights which are the only pieces that can protect his king and i bring back that knight that went backwards to replace the one i traded for his knight
21. Ne5 , 21.Rd6 forced
22. Qb5 forcde and 22.b6 which leads to mate in 2
yeah i saw Qa6, Na5 and missed Qa8 mate, only looked at Qb7 mate , but i had 1m on the clock and like i said i knew that if i took both knights there was no way he could defend the position ,as his Q cant move , both his bishops and rook are doing absolutely nothing and d5 is coming even at an expense of a knight as im opening the dark squared bishop that will end the game , taking the knight goes from 0s to +5.5 , think i would be able to convert this position vs most GMs , pbb not vs stockfish but yeah.. black is getting mated after i take the knight anyway
so yeah its just knowing that a move cannot be good , could've gone wrong ? ofc as apparently theres 1 or 2 ridiculous defenses that stockfish can find , but overall the position is much easier to play for white , and all my pieces are active and pointing at his defenseless king , saying this game was dog **** , i understand it... its not normal even for masters to play so aggressive just cause a move is bad , its still early in the opening and very easy to miss a move when you go into extreme tactical lines, i play for fun tho , and yeah with more time on the clock can find some good moves.. obv you play 11.Nb4 vs a top GM and you get the same outcome but way more accurate , they will punish these moves very easily
i end up with 83% accuracy , 2 mistakes and 1 blunder ( the mate in 2..) and he has 72%, position much easier to play for white, and black has to be really accurate to defend to justify that pawn + rook grabbing
Last edited by MartimC; 05-22-2024 at 02:39 PM.