Chess games

[bennyboy]

Don't you just love it when your opponent totally blunders and gives away the entire game? This is one of my current games which my opponent just blundered away his rook by trading it for a pawn and left himself with no good moves.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Bc4 Ne7 4.O-O a6 5.Nc3 b5 6.Bd5 c6 7.Bb3 Bb7 8.d4 d6 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Qxd8 Kxd8 11.Be3 Nd7 12.Rad1 Kc7 13.Be6 Rd8 14.Bxd7 Rxd7 15.Bc5 Rxd1 16.Rxd1 Ng6 17.Bxf8 Rxf8 18.b4 Bc8 19.h3 Nf4 20.Kh2 g5 21.g3 Nxh3 22.Kg2 g4 23.Nh4 f5 24.f3 h5 25.Ng6 Re8 26.Nh4 f4 27.gxf4 Nxf4 28.Kg3 Rg8 29.Nf5 Bxf5 30.exf5 Rf8 31.fxg4 hxg4 32.Kxg4 Rxf5 33.Kxf5

I wasn't too sure about this game earlier, but after that I now know the game is won. It's not finished yet and I don't want any advice on moves, but whatever move he makes will be a bad one since he's going to lose his pawn protecting his knight, and if he moves that pawn he loses his knight.

I won't comment on the game if it's still running, but let me give a comment about the early middle game.

First of all, let me say I think it started out a better game of chess than some of the other games you've already linked. Until move 13, you were dominating.

After move 13, you have an absolutely crushing lead in development. In this situation, you want to look for a pawn break to open up his king's position. Whatever you do, you don't want to trade pieces, because this opens up his back ranks and lets him jailbreak his black bishop and king's rook, solving his serious problem with backward development.

I'd say pawns to b4 and a4, forcing open a file for your rooks, then double them up on the open file, and you could probably get at least the rooks and a knight to his king before he solved his traffic jam.


Letting him take your rook pawn was I think an oversight: you had tunnel-vision on his knight and ignored the extra support offered by the bishop. At that point, I'd say you had a clearly losing game. Luckily, he saw your pawn oversight and raised it by a rook!