Propitius vs. Sciurus 0-1 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Sciurus   
Tuesday, 24 October 2006

A milestone game on my way to mastery and my first victory in the STTourney (not counting the forfeit win in the first round). Finally I was able to play an endgame without making major mistakes. The whole game was relatively even but I was able to win the game because my king was better positioned in the endgame.

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written by patrick, October 28, 2006
You did a great job annotating your game.

4...Bg4 transposes to a variation of the Portuguese Attack that is good for black. It's good to transpose to the safe (non-gambit) lines of the Portuguese even if you play 2...Qxd5. I play a lot of games in this line, eg:
http://s95395959.onlinehome.us/public/chess/web/games/MY%20GAMES_22.html

Bxf3 is premature... Generally you don't give up a bishop for a knight without a reason (eg, double opp's pawns, or remove a defender). Here there is no reason and you are just bringing white's bishop to a better (unchallenged) diagonal. Also, if ...Bh5 and g4 Bg6, then you can castle queenside with good chances for a kingside attack due to white's weak h & g pawns. Luckily you had Nxf3 with check to remove that unopposed bishop. Nxf3 was the best move when you had the chance for sure.

I don't understand the comment "Qc3 would be slightly better"... this must be a typo. Your annotations seem very thorough and accurate, so i don't have much to add. smilies/smiley.gif
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written by Sciurus, October 29, 2006
Patrick:

thanks for the comments, they were very instructive. I still have a hard time to decide when to exchange pieces and tend to go for the exchange when in doubt, in fear that avoiding it could get me into trouble.

I looked at your game (I actually read a post on the Scandinavian on your blog before). The combination of taking the pawn with the Q and playing ... Bg4 early on was new to me. I actually tried the "normal" Portugese and Icelandic Gambit lines before. Thanks for the hint!

You are right, the thing with "Qc3" must be a typo and I can't remember anymore what I had in mind with it.
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written by King of the Spill, November 02, 2006
Nice game and annotations...you must be underrated!

You look like a strong endgame player, an approach which I personally like. A noticeable percentage of beginning and intermediate players do not study the endgame very much, as you probably have already noticed smilies/cool.gif.
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written by Sciurus, November 02, 2006
Kingofthespill:
thanks for the flowers smilies/cool.gif
I actually don't feel underrated at all - in most of my games, I make a really stupid blunder (Just yesterday I let somebody take my Q for a N) but sometimes it works out like in this example. I hope that practice will teach me to avoid loosing the Q, but I guess this will take a while...

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