The mistakes in question include the vunerability of the f7 square which is a key consideration in these kind of openings also the exchange of bishops was a mistake especially considering the careful use of my own bishop....Poor re routing of knights can be added to the list .
Its also important to see how the light sqared bishop can be used to devastating effect in these Ruy Lopez opennings and not just exchanged for a knight.
A average players attempt to achieve a better level of chess play...After rediscovering the game in adulthood.
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Saturday, 4 February 2012
PLANNING HOW TO ATTACK DOWN A FILE WHEN CENTRE IS LOCKED
Here's a win that shows some of my thought processes and how I put together some of the things I have recently learned as in looking to understand more of the strategy of the game.
Also there's a bit at the end where tactics come into play in a decisive manner.....
In this game I took advantage of space, movability and also had a well thought out defensive plan that I was able to change to attack very quickly.
More then anything this is a game where I saw how to attack down a flank if the centre is locked and how to plan for this in advance
Also there's a bit at the end where tactics come into play in a decisive manner.....
In this game I took advantage of space, movability and also had a well thought out defensive plan that I was able to change to attack very quickly.
More then anything this is a game where I saw how to attack down a flank if the centre is locked and how to plan for this in advance
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
ANALYSING THE REASONS FOR DEFEAT
MY KINGDOM FOR A PAWN
I recently became aware of the fact that many of my defeats seem to result from similar oversights or mistakes and these then form patterns that are repeated..
It also seems apparently that many of my defeats result from either outright blunders,or miscalculations in tactical positions when I try something daring although some of my miscalculations could also be put interpreted as blunders,just not of the absolute howler variety.
I have gone through 20 of my most recent defeats to gain a statistical overview of my defeats as it always helps to see the facts in black and white ..
and I learnt something I didn't suspect that many of my defeats result from the lose of a single pawn..
THE LOSE OF A PAWN CAN SEEM TO BE INSIGNIFICANT IN THE EARLY STAGES.. BUT CAN LEAD TO STRATEGIC DIFFICULTIES AND WHICH ALSO PRESENT A LONG TERM DISADVANTAGE IN THE ENDGAME.
This may at first seem obvious but I think one of the things that would help my planning in the early stages of a game and on into the middlegame is to include the idea of the preservation of pawns as a theme .
TOO OFTEN PLAYERS OF MY RATING CONCENTRATE ON THE PRESERVATION OF MAJOR AND MINOR PIECES AND THE ATTACKS THAT CAN STEM FROM THEM.
Also passivity of pawn structure as from the riddiculos example in game 3 can be a trouble habit to get out of
GAME 1
Bad tactical play late middlegame ..
I was white and I eventually lost the passed pawn and the game.
GAME 2
This in which I play black one has all the hallmarks of a strategic defeat relatively shattered pawn structure and a disjointed position .White manages to increases his small advantages and eventually win the game..
GAME 3
I was white and my passive pawns cost me the game even though I was a pawn up.I was actually a piece up as well until a couple of moves prior to this as well.
I recently became aware of the fact that many of my defeats seem to result from similar oversights or mistakes and these then form patterns that are repeated..
It also seems apparently that many of my defeats result from either outright blunders,or miscalculations in tactical positions when I try something daring although some of my miscalculations could also be put interpreted as blunders,just not of the absolute howler variety.
I have gone through 20 of my most recent defeats to gain a statistical overview of my defeats as it always helps to see the facts in black and white ..
and I learnt something I didn't suspect that many of my defeats result from the lose of a single pawn..
THE LOSE OF A PAWN CAN SEEM TO BE INSIGNIFICANT IN THE EARLY STAGES.. BUT CAN LEAD TO STRATEGIC DIFFICULTIES AND WHICH ALSO PRESENT A LONG TERM DISADVANTAGE IN THE ENDGAME.
This may at first seem obvious but I think one of the things that would help my planning in the early stages of a game and on into the middlegame is to include the idea of the preservation of pawns as a theme .
TOO OFTEN PLAYERS OF MY RATING CONCENTRATE ON THE PRESERVATION OF MAJOR AND MINOR PIECES AND THE ATTACKS THAT CAN STEM FROM THEM.
Also passivity of pawn structure as from the riddiculos example in game 3 can be a trouble habit to get out of
GAME 1
Bad tactical play late middlegame ..
I was white and I eventually lost the passed pawn and the game.
GAME 2
This in which I play black one has all the hallmarks of a strategic defeat relatively shattered pawn structure and a disjointed position .White manages to increases his small advantages and eventually win the game..
GAME 3
I was white and my passive pawns cost me the game even though I was a pawn up.I was actually a piece up as well until a couple of moves prior to this as well.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Tactics and Strategy
A game I won where I combined tactics and strategy for a win I always prefer open games especially in e4 openings and I am careful not to make mistakes but am always on the lookout for a knockout blow in the form of a winning tactic....
Here I saw him preparing something so I thought I would beat him to it with something of my own..
Here I saw him preparing something so I thought I would beat him to it with something of my own..
Monday, 21 November 2011
A two way attack!
One of the most difficult things in a chess game is to calculate both a attack by your own pieces and a defence against a opponents attack at the same time.
Its double the normal calculation then I am used to doing normally I am either attacking or defending but here both combined,so it takes careful study to correctly figure out the move.
It also doesn't help that they're no immediate tactics but rather ones that will show fruition in four or five moves,which adds to the complications.
Its double the normal calculation then I am used to doing normally I am either attacking or defending but here both combined,so it takes careful study to correctly figure out the move.
It also doesn't help that they're no immediate tactics but rather ones that will show fruition in four or five moves,which adds to the complications.
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Calculation
Although I managed to win I could've won a lot easier and the amount of tactical combinations which I failed to see in this game could fill a tactics puzzle book.
Just a little calculation could've made the game so much easier,thinking about it I find these can of tactics the hardest the get right the sort where you are forced to allow your opponent a tempo during the attack.
You then have to calculate not just the effectiveness of your own combination his defence to it,
but also wheather or not he can start a attack of his own with the tempo you have given him!
So its three factors which you have to consider instead of the normal two!!
Here queen to d4 presents all sorts of threats and is by for the best move and really gives life to the possibility of a discovered attack against the king 17. Qd4 b6 18. Bxb6 Qc6 19. Bc5 Bd7 20. Bb5 Qd5 21. Qxd5 exd5 22. Bxd7 Ke7
In this position for example a simple winning move would have been Rf2...trapping the queen ..
In this position bishop d7 with the following 27. Bd7 f5 28. Bxe6+ Kxe6 29. Qb6+ Kf7 30. Qf6+ Ke8 31. Qxh8 Qd7 32. Qxh7 Qxa4 33. Bxe7 Qd4+ 34. Rf2 Bxe7 35.
I also missed mating combinations on moves 32 33 34 and 36 although in my defence they were complicated and long combinations...
Just a little calculation could've made the game so much easier,thinking about it I find these can of tactics the hardest the get right the sort where you are forced to allow your opponent a tempo during the attack.
You then have to calculate not just the effectiveness of your own combination his defence to it,
but also wheather or not he can start a attack of his own with the tempo you have given him!
So its three factors which you have to consider instead of the normal two!!
Here queen to d4 presents all sorts of threats and is by for the best move and really gives life to the possibility of a discovered attack against the king 17. Qd4 b6 18. Bxb6 Qc6 19. Bc5 Bd7 20. Bb5 Qd5 21. Qxd5 exd5 22. Bxd7 Ke7
In this position for example a simple winning move would have been Rf2...trapping the queen ..
In this position bishop d7 with the following 27. Bd7 f5 28. Bxe6+ Kxe6 29. Qb6+ Kf7 30. Qf6+ Ke8 31. Qxh8 Qd7 32. Qxh7 Qxa4 33. Bxe7 Qd4+ 34. Rf2 Bxe7 35.
I also missed mating combinations on moves 32 33 34 and 36 although in my defence they were complicated and long combinations...
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
What a 1500-1800 player should know.
As a player who is within this rating range I thought I would give a quick overview of my playing style and what a middle rated player should be able to do and their general style of play.
In the opening I will more often then not, at a minimum try to get out of the opening with a fairly equal position I am pretty confident I can get a fairly equal position even against a strong chess engine like Rykba.
A 1500-1800 player should know a few opening very well for example I particulary like playing the Ruy Lopez,The Italian game,The Fork Trick Attack and the Ulvestad Variation of the two Knights Defence.
He should also know how to cease upon any mistakes generally when a opponent neglects making central moves in the beginning and then fails to castle early,and of course the typical beginners mistake of bringing the queen out on the third move.
So in the game above I play against Rykba and can get to move 12 and still have a playable position and could probably carried on for a few more moves the score in the game above is -0.33 after 12 moves.
However this is the opening I am most familar with,the point is that if I could do it against Rykba I can do it against most online opponent,needless to say Rykba has a incredibly high ELO rating.
Once a player stops being crushed in the openning it gives him a increased amount of confidence which can really take his game forward then it all becomes about the tactics of the middle and endgames.
IN THE SICILIAN
The position above is one I managed to attain in the Sicilian opening which is a opening I rarely play,the whole point is that if you can attain playable positions against Rykba 2.2 you can almost certainly attain them against human opponents.
In the opening I will more often then not, at a minimum try to get out of the opening with a fairly equal position I am pretty confident I can get a fairly equal position even against a strong chess engine like Rykba.
A 1500-1800 player should know a few opening very well for example I particulary like playing the Ruy Lopez,The Italian game,The Fork Trick Attack and the Ulvestad Variation of the two Knights Defence.
He should also know how to cease upon any mistakes generally when a opponent neglects making central moves in the beginning and then fails to castle early,and of course the typical beginners mistake of bringing the queen out on the third move.
So in the game above I play against Rykba and can get to move 12 and still have a playable position and could probably carried on for a few more moves the score in the game above is -0.33 after 12 moves.
However this is the opening I am most familar with,the point is that if I could do it against Rykba I can do it against most online opponent,needless to say Rykba has a incredibly high ELO rating.
Once a player stops being crushed in the openning it gives him a increased amount of confidence which can really take his game forward then it all becomes about the tactics of the middle and endgames.
IN THE SICILIAN
The position above is one I managed to attain in the Sicilian opening which is a opening I rarely play,the whole point is that if you can attain playable positions against Rykba 2.2 you can almost certainly attain them against human opponents.
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