Learning The Petroff (Analysis - Day 2)

 I am still trying to beat ... Sakura a 2200 rated Bot on chess.com that plays The Petroff.  I've been looking on youtube.com and I've found a slightly different approach that was demonstrated on the previous post. 

So instead of playing 5.d4 I am going to try and play 5.Nc3 to aim for a completely different game ... After Black captures the Knight on c3, the aim here is to recapture Black's Knight with the d pawn.  White eventually castles Queenside in some lines.  Let's see what happens when I play this against Sakura

Here is the game that I lost ... 👎




But at least I got to an endgame ... just couldn't work out how to win ... maybe I need to study this type of game a bit more to arrive at a concrete plan ... ?? 

Let's have another go ... 

Here is the analysis to get a draw against Sakura 😊