Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Budapest Gambit Declined - poor strategy and no tactics!

Here is last week's club game - a Budapest declined. In this game I made two fundamental errors. 1) I blocked my dark-squared bishop's diagonal. 2) I opened the 'h' file without actually needing to ... (the result of being 35 minutes behind on time and having only 5 minutes left on the clock). I have performed some analysis on Fritz 13 - this showed that I could certainly have played f5 and sacrificed my Bishop for a win! I wonder if White would have spotted that? Anyway I got mated foolishly on the back rank in the end - should have sac'ed my Queen for the two Rooks (hindsight is wonderful isn't it?)





Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 Bc5 4. Nc3 d6 5. h3 Bf5 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. e4 Bg6 8. Bd3 c6 9. Qb3 Qc7 10. Nge2 O-O 11. O-O a5 12. a3 Ba7 13. Bxf6 Nxf6 14. Rac1 Nd7 15. Na4 c5 16. Nec3 Nf6 17. Rfe1 Nh5 18. g3 Qd7 19. Bf1 Qe7 ( 19... f5 20. exf5 Bxf5 21. g4 Bxg4 22. hxg4 Qxg4+ 23. Bg2 ( 23. Kh1 Qh4+ 24. Kg1 Qxf2+ 25. Kh1 Ng3# ) 23... Nf4 24. Ne2 Qxg2# ) 20. Nb5 Rfd8 21. Bg2 Qg5 22. Qe3 Qe7 23. Bf3 Qd7 24. Bg4 Qe7 25. Bxh5 Bxh5 26. g4 Bg6 27. f4 exf4 28. Qxf4 Bb8 29. Kg2 Qh4 30. Re3 Ra6 31. Nac3 h5 32. Rg3 Re8 33. Re1 hxg4 34. hxg4 Following move not recommended by Fritz 13. Opening h file was an obvious mistake! 34...  Re5 35. Rh1 Qe7 36. Kf3 f6 37. Rgh3 Kf7 38. Rh8 Bc7 39. Rc8 Bd8 40. Rh8 Bb6 41. Rce8 Qd7 42. Rhf8# 1-0






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