Thanks Tyson I appreciate all your detailed feedback.
Jorge
On Mar 12, 2021, at 6:18 AM, mordue andrew (Redacted sender "tyson.mordue"
for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jorge et al,
A little more on this. It occured to me late last night that in the sequence:
1 e4 c5
2 Nf3 Nc6
3 Nc3 Nf6
4 e5
Black has
4...Ng4
and this seems to be winning the e5 Pawn after
5 Qe2 Qc7
However, have I just looked this up on the database at Chess365.com. After
6 Nb5 Qb8
7 d4 cxd4
8 Bf4
we are in a known gambit line which is evaluated as equal by Deep Rybka, that
is to say White has adequate compensation for the Pawn. OTB this looks very
dangerous for Black.
Conclusion: after 3 Nc3 Black should play 3...d6 to.rule out 4 e5. This
repeats my original advice but with this added theoretical qualification.
Regards,
Tyson
On 11 March 2021 at 16:36 mordue andrew <tyson.mordue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Jorge et al,
Amongst other things move 3 needed to be 3...d6 to take the sting out of
e4-e5. You were two pieces and two Pawns down by move 11 with the Queens off
and you'd lost your castling rights.
My simple guess is that you're playing at way too fast a time limit There's
no point in playing a game in ten minutes and getting completely crushed..I
always advocate slower time limits, minimum 30 minutes each. I'm basing this
mainly on the quality of your own moves but also White's 5th move. There
were several better moves to play but after that White is just accepting
gifts.
This next bit won't be the first time I've written this on this group but
pay attention to the way Pawns capture. One square diagonally forward, and
Pawns can capture anything. (In fact anything can capture anything but
capturing the King means it's checkmate and that's the end of the game.)
This is very important because it's easy to have interlocking Pawn chains
which determine the nature of the play.
Regards,
Tyson
On 11 March 2021 at 10:44 Jorge Paez <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone.
OK so this is another practice game for my OTB this Saturday.
I think I did quite a bit better on this one.
I was playing 10/2 rapid again.
I’m getting more used to LiChess which is my platform of choice so that was
good and I was actually able to follow the moves better by referring to the
Algebraic PGN notation up top which was more readable this time.
Also as you notice it’ll cut off at White move 24, that’s because I ran out
of time.
Anyway please let me know your thoughts.
Oh and I was playing Black by the way, forgot to add that in earlier.
Jorge
1 e4, c5,
2 Nf3, Nf6,
3 Nc3, Nc6,
4 e5, d6,
5 exf6, Ne5,
6 Qe2, Nd3 check,
7 Qxd3, d5,
8 Qxd5, Bd7,
9 Qxb7, Qb8,
10 Qxb8 check, Rxb8,
11 fxe7, Kxe7,
12 Nd5 check, Kd8,
13 Ne5, Kc8,
14 Ba6 check, Kd8,
15 Nxf7 check, Ke8,
16 Nxh8, Be7,
17 short castling, Kf8,
18 Re1, Kg8,
19 Rxe7, Kxh8,
20 Rxd7, Rg8,
21 Ne7, Rf8,
22 c4, Rf7,
23 d3, Rxe7,
24 Rxe7,
