Hello Lucas,
Sorry, I have to be brutally honest. You misplayed the game from the
second move onward. The English Defense was played poorly. You have to focus
on
training. Study defenses and the proper countermoves.
Here are notes and comments from chess.com on why the English Defense line
is bad.
Why is this English Defense line bad? 1.d4 e6 2.c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 ..
1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. e4 Bb4 5. Bd3 c5 6. dxc5 bxc5 7. Ne2
White has a slight lead in development and a space advantage in the
center, and slightly better pawn structure. Blacks coordination looks a little
troublesome as well, especially that N-g8. I'd give it += if you held a gun
to my head, but it's nothing special.
What I found is this: pawn on d7 is a weak backward pawn. d file is open
so, as your Bc2 move, white can put pressure on d7.
What is Black aiming at when playing 5...c5?
The only reason I can think about is turning the b7 bishop to a fat piece
of plastic after 6.d5.
Why white does not play the absolutely natural 6.d5, but takes on c5? I
can find no good reason, other than white being a woodpusher.
After 6.dc5? Bxc5 Black has a good game, this is fairly obvious. Why does
he have to play the horrible 6...dc5? The only logical answer to that
question is the same as to the previous one- you just have to swap colors.
The reason white has a (very) clear advantage after 6...dc5? 7.Ne2, is
fairly obvious,again: the b4 bishop is horribly misplaced, and he has either
to be swapped for the c3 knight without even giving white doubled pawns
(shouldn't anyway be such an issue with the c-file closed), conceding the
bishop
pair to white for free, or lose precious time with ...Ba5-c7 to come back
to play, while white has an easy going play with 0-0, Bg5, f4 etc, and
alternatively playing Bc2 and Bf4, when that hole on d6 looks like an, errr,
hole...
Development: White has slight advantage
Pawn structure: d7 is weak
Open files/important squares: b and d files half open. Pressure on d7 is
possible on d file.
d4 and d6 are holes. d6 is weaker.
Minor pieces: Bishop on b4 is blocked by c5. B on d3 can be better after a
future e4-e5
White knights are developed but not the black ones. B on b7 is good but so
is B on c1
RESULT: White is better.
Edward
In a message dated 8/22/2016 10:21:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lucasradaelli@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I am posting one of my games from the tournament that I participated in
the weekend. almost all players were rated over 1600 and I don't even
have a rating yet, but my main purpose in participating was to have fun
(which I did), get to know the players of the club of my city, and of
course, learn more about chess.
I will leave my game here with some questions and kindly ask for the
more experienced players to comment on, point alternatives and provide
the kind of useful feedback that I have seen you posting in other
games. If there is something very obvious that I missed, please comment
as well! :)
[Event "Zonal Mineiro 2016"]
[Site "Belo Horizonte - MG"]
[Date "2016.08.19"]
[Round "1"]
[Board "7"]
[White "Radaelli, Lucas Falcao"]
[Black "De Castro, Pablo Luis Fonseca"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A80"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1860"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2016.08.19"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "BRA"]
1. d4 e6
2. e3 f5
{I entered in trouble when faced with the dutch defense. I was planning
to play the stonewall attack with d4, e3, Bd3, f4, Nf3 and Nbd2, but I
thought that this would not be ideal against the setup of the Dutch
defense, where the a2-h7 diagonal would be closed for a while with the
f5 pawn, so I changed my mind.}
3. g3 Nf6
4. Bg2 Be7
5. Nf3 O-O
6. O-O Qe8
7. Nbd2 d6
8. Qe2
{Thought supporting the e-pawn with my rook on e1 but was not sure.
Could not decide what was better, so decided to go with the queen, for
latter developing the DSB and eventually connecting the rooks. Is that
correct? This is how I made my mind}
8... Nc6
9. e4 Qh5
10. b3 fxe4
11. Nxe4 Nxe4
12. Qxe4 Bf6
13. Bb2 Bd7
14. c4 Rae8
15. Rad1 e5
16. d5
{In this position anything looked good to me. Exchanging pawns would end
up being bad for me I think, so decided to go for d5, which locked the
position a lot. Do you see any other alternatives?}
16... Nd8
17. Ba3
{In this moment, I stopped and thought for a long time. I was trying to
come up with a plan. I could not achieve anything concrete, so was
trying to find which piece I could improve. Thought fore more time again
and decided to move the bishop, which now, I think, did not achieve
anything in special. Even now, this position looks very fuzzy to me and
I don't know how to proceed.}
17... Bf5
18. Qe3 b6
19. Nd2 Nf7
20. Ne4 Ng5
{Here, thought for a very long time again. Should I exchange my knight
for the other knight or the DSB? }
21. Nxg5 Bxg5
22. Bf3 Bg4
23. Bxg4 Qxg4
24. h3
{I know, terrible. I realized just after I moved it...}
24... Qh5
25. Qe1 Qxh3
26. Bc1 Bxc1
27. Rxc1 Rf5
28. Qe4 Rh5
29. Qg2 Qxg2+
30. Kxg2 e4
31. Rfe1 Rhe5
32. Re3 g5
33. a4 Kg7
34. Ra1 a5
35. g4 Rf8
36. Rb1 Rf4
37. Kg3 Kg6
38. b4 axb4
39. Rxb4 h5
40. gxh5+ Kxh5
41. Rb5 Rg4+
{I resigned, as I was very down on time and did not have any idea how I
could even get close to a draw. I think that this was already lost when
I lost the h3 pawn.}
0-1
