Saturday, 21 April 2012

Blunder costs me dearly!

It was Sunday morning and I was ready for the penultimate game.  My opponent had a grade of 153 so I was in for a difficult ride!  My opponent played 1.d4.  I played 1. ..Nf6, hoping he'd play 2.c4 and I'd be able to play 2. ..e5 and get into my favourite response - The Budapest Defence.  No such luck - he played 2.Nf3 immediately snuffing out my chances of a Budapest ... :(  I think we ended up in a Tarrasch?  I'm not sure what to do exactly in a Tarrasch, so will need to investigate with Fritz when I have more time - anyway, I ended up blundering my Bishop!  (Also 11. ..Qc7 was  very dubious - probably premature)

By my usual standards the game was a disaster - I lost a pawn due to poor calculation and so as to compensate I tried to get into a tactically sharp position, but the blunder cost me dearly and I really had no hope from then on ... Perhaps I should have considered 22. .. Rg6 and the game would certainly have taken a different course!






Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. c4 cxd4 5. exd4 d5 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. Qe2 Re8 10. O-O a6 11. a4 Qc7 12. Rac1 Qb8 13. Rfe1 b6 14. Ne5 Bb7 15. Nxd7 Nxd7 16. Bxe7 Rxe7 17. cxd5 Nf6 18. dxe6 Rxe6 19. Qd2 Ng4 20. f4 Rh6 21. h3 Nf6 22. Re7 Qd6 23. Rxb7 Qxd4+ 24. Kf1 g6 25. Ne2 Qd5 26. Rbc7 Kg7 27. Qe3 Qb3 28. Qd4 Raf8 29. R7c6 Kg8 30. Rxf6 1-0






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