Jabari, who visits our blogs, contacted me to play a 4 game series. We started the series tonight (game 1 link here). It was one tough game tonight. So I felt I put up a pretty good fight, but I am still weak on seeing everything. I need to take some extra time for triple-checking.
11...Qc7 was a great move on his part. There wasn't really anything I could do to defend. I just needed to see that position a bit earlier in the game.
19. e4 wasn't so great. I saw the Qb+ move a few seconds after I pushed the pawn. Sometimes this happens on Chess Tempo ... I see so many things and then they are all floating up there in my head and I have a hard time organizing my thoughts and keeping track of bad lines and such.
So he took the b2 pawn and I figured I could get some play out of that. I did a little, but he navigated all the various lines well.
23. g4 killed me. I wanted to defend that f5 pawn. I probably should have just went ahead and played Bd1, giving me a chance to defend f5 while still getting a chance to take his c4.
After g4, I saw that h3 was now open for business. It went downhill from there. Since his clock was a little low, I worked a bit at forcing him to win it. But he played quite well and finished me off no problem.
Ugh - we both missed me dropping a piece.
ReplyDeleteI can't take on move 12 - I had seen that I was ok after Qd4, but Qh5 just wins right away as the f-pawn's pinned. :( I have to castle first, but I was really worried about Bxh7+ if I did right there.
Computer didn't like my Qc7 much at all, thought I should just leave all that alone, castle, and break French-style with f6.
Pushing f4 left the e3-pawn really weak - I had been looking for quite a while to sneak in Qb6 (hitting e3 and b2).
23. g4 - I was planning to just let go of c4 at that point. If Bd1 I was going to swing the queen to e2->f4 to try to get the queens off. As you said, g4 lets her out through f3 (which I saw right away).
Rocky what do you think of a 15. e4 to attempt to weaken the advanced c4 pawn before the Bishop develops and the King safely castles bringing to Rook into the defense of d5 if needed.
ReplyDeleteAlso I remember seeing a chess blog of Jabrari's sometime ago, do you have the link by chance?
I just started something up, though it's probably not what you are thinking of Tim.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to this just-completed game:
http://jabariblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/fics-game-1-w-rockyrook.html
I don't think 15. e4 works - the DSB isn't defended any more so I get out of the pin with (... Nf3+! 16. gxf3 Qxf4)
awww snap! you're right! i knew there was something there - just didn't see it. not 14. Qd4, rather 14. Qh5!
ReplyDeletethat's always the rub, isn't it ... you just have to *see* it.
geesh - i only took 30 seconds to move Qd4.
ugh indeed ... good eye there Jabari.
Yeah - I think we both saw a "ghost knight" on f3 still when analyzing that (even though it gets exchanged off early in that sequence).
ReplyDeleteI kept looking at Qd4, saying that f6 holds (or at least holds long enough to vacate the queen, and I'll happily give the pawn back to get an open f-file with some pressure down it). Qh5 never even crossed my mind as a possibility.