Hi everyone this is Jerry from the ChessNetwork, and this is a game analysis from a game I
had played online against a Grandmaster who was playing the white pieces against myself,
a National Master. And the time controls for this game were 15 minutes which meant both
of us had 15 minutes each to play the game. And as always if you have any questions, comments,
suggestions feel free to contact me at the website below, or simply contact me via YouTube.
Hope you enjoy the game. My opponent open the game with the move pawn to e4. I moved
pawn to c5. Knight to f3, knight to c6, pawn to d4, pawn captures pawn, knight captures
pawn, knight to f6 attacking the pawn. Knight to c3 defending the pawn. Pawn to e5 attacking
the knight and also creating a weakness in the black position. Now why would black do
this? Well what I hope playing the black pieces in this position here is to undermine the
white center. So I'm seeing that white can occupy the square d5 with the knight at some
point, but what I hope to get in return is attack against white's center by moves like
pawn to f5 or in some variations a knight might come to e7 where it would attack the
d5 square. But first and foremost the knight on d4 is attacked so it has to do something.
Knight to b5 eyeing the d6 square. Pawn to d6, bishop to g5 pinning the knight to the
queen. Normally my first reaction to a move such as this is to do something about it.
Namely in the form of breaking the pin or attacking the piece that is pinning my knight
to the queen. However neither of these moves are good and here's the reason why. For example,
if bishop to e7 white simply captures the knight which is a defender of this critical
square d5. After the knight is removed, the knight on c3 can come to d5 and it's just
big trouble. If I were to recapture the bishop like this I simply lose a pawn. So my only
choice is to capture with the pawn, and now this knight comes here and there is just all
sorts of trouble going on here. If black castles, you can capture the bishop followed by captures
the pawn is one variation. And the other threat is to just be forking the king and the rook.
This is something to be avoided. For right now I have to avoid this pin err excuse me
I have to do just nothing about this pin right now. What I do have to worry about is this
knight here. I have to kick this knight off of this b5 square. I have to get him off of
this square so that he stops eyeing the c7 square. So, pawn to a6 attacking the knight.
Knight to a3 and I still don't do anything about this pin just yet. Instead I make a
more forceful move. Pawn to b5, getting ready to fork both knights as well as making way
for my bishop to potentially come to the b7 square, as well as guarding the c4 square.
The knight on a3 is a poorly placed piece and I'd like to keep him as a poor piece.
I don't want him to be able to come to c4 and reposition himself that much more easily.
So after pawn to b5, knight to d5 landing on the d5 square which once again is a hole
as well as getting away from this tactic and adding pressure to the knight which is pinned.
Only now do I do something about this pin and I break it with the move bishop to e7.
Bishop captures knight, bishop captures bishop and white has just parted with his dark squared
bishop. Now is there a way that I can maybe attack these dark squares? We'll see if I
can do just that. Normally when you are missing a dark squared bishop or a light squared bishop
your dark squares or light squares tend to become weak. So we'll see if I can try and
attack white's dark squares. Pawn to c3 making way for the knight to come to c2 as well as
freeing up the pawn to a4 move which would allow the a1 rook to do stuff. Castle, a developing
move getting my king safe. Knight to c2 repositioning, bishop to g5 making way for the pawn to come
to f5 as well as eyeing the e3 square so in the event the knight comes to e3 I have the
option of taking it. Pawn to a4 attacking my pawn a 2nd time. I have to do something
about this. Do I defend my pawn or do I capture his pawn? I decide to capture. Pawn captures
pawn, rook captures pawn, king to h8. Why this move? Well like I was saying before I
do want to move my pawn to f5, but I first want to get my king the off g8 square. Why?
Well my king might be susceptible to attack along this diagonal I have highlighted in
blue. So this king to h8 move is a sort of prep move. Knight to b4 attacking my knight,
knight captures knight, knight captures knight, pawn to f5 attacking his pawn. Now white does
the move queen to d5 attacking my rook which is the only unprotected piece that I have.
Now in chess, moves like this where a queen comes to d5 attacking my rook which is unprotected
is usually a good idea. However in this position I can actually ignore this threat because
I have stronger threats. I simply ignore it and play pawn captures pawn, allow my rook
to be captured. Now I'm down a full piece. Queen to b6, a quiet move. Now I say quiet
because after I moved to b6, it's a move that does not capture a piece and it doesn't check
the white king, but what it does do is threaten a mate in two. Now what do I have as compensation
for me being down a rook? Well let's take a look at the king positions... my king is
safe, white's king is not safe. In fact he still needs two moves before he is on the
g1 square, and its two moves he simply doesn't have. The best move in this position is bishop
to e2 which is the move that was played. Let's take a look at a couple "what ifs". What if
pawn to f3? This is what would happen: queen to e3, if king here checkmate, if bishop here
check, if king here I take the rook. If bishop blocks, I check, king here, queen captures
bishop, king to f2, and now I got either rook. Pawn to f3, not good. An alternative queen
here guarding this square is met by bishop to e6, tricky move. If the bishop is captured,
checkmate in two. Or if the queen retreats here, still keeping an eye on this square,
checkmate. As it turns out this is the best move and it's met now by queen captures pawn
check, this is the actual game. King to d1, queen to e3 threatening two different checkmate
in one moves. And now white has to find a move that will guard both the d2 square as
well as the c1 square, and there is not a move that can be made that does just that.
So the white king needs to put on his running shoes and he runs to c2. King to c2, queen
captures bishop check, king to b1. Queen captures pawn attacking the rook, rook to e1, bishop
to h4. This is a very dynamic position. There are very forcing moves that are going on here.
I'm trying to give as much direction to my opponent as possible, I'm trying to limit
my opponents' responses. And after bishop to h4 attacking the rook, rook captures pawn,
the rook is now attacking my bishop but at the same time he's worked himself into a pin.
If the rook moves, I get the queen on a8. Queen to f1, now in this position I want to
be able to move my c8 bishop, but it's pinned to my rook on f8. So queen to f1 checks the
king and protects my rook on f8 which would free up my bishop to move off of the c8 square.
King to c2, note that if king comes here, bishop check and I got the queen. So king
to c2 and bishop to e6. Now I am threatening the queen, rook captures pawn. Now I could
capture the queen, have white recapture and check my king, but then I would have to block
with my bishop. But I don't want to have to do that to my bishop, I don't want to work
my bishop into a pin. Instead I want my bishop to be an attacker. So after rook captures
pawn, pawn to h6, rook captures bishop, rook captures queen, rook captures rook, king to
h7, rook e8 attacking my bishop, queen to f2 check forking the king and the rook, king
to c1, bishop to f5. White resigns as there is no way of stopping my queen from getting
either the rook or checkmating the king on the square e1. So that's all for this game.
Hope you got something out of it.