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#4190 by D.Aaron: RPI Simul

14:08, October 16, 2011 by D.Aaron: RPI Simul

[Event Deepak Aaron Simul] [Site RPI Campus] [Date 2011.10.16] [Round 1] [White Deepak Aaron (2293)] [Black Christopher Caravaty (unrated)] [Result 1-0] [PlyCount 57] 1. e4 {giving the kid the first move. he's got his work cut out for him anyways. no need to make it uphill on my board.} c5 {i was told that he plays a closed Sicilian by Jonathan Friday. as far as i'm concerned the closed sicilian is no real test of blacks c5 and equality is achieved easily} 2. Nf3 { he traveled quickly around during the first few moves so i didn't have much time to think, my heart was all ready made up anyways... 100% of the time if someone plays Nf3 I play d6 hoping for the open and my najdorf. but my minds still stuck on the idea he doesn't play the open. i had decided that upon Nc3 or Bc4 (the second being a poor move which a database indicated he had played in the past) a6?! to get a quick queenside attack rolling against his exposed minor pieces....} a6 $2 {i play the player, not the board. my first mistake. a6 would be great against Nc3 and Bc4... its surprising and i know it well. i'm thinking just a move order switch here and hes playing moves like d3 next. i neglected to see how the situation was different in the minute i had. but the difference is huge. without a minor piece developed on the c file theres nothing in the way of his next move} 3. c4 $1 {and my queenside attack is effectively stopped on move 3... maybe i can play my rook to b8 and then b5 down the road... but by the time that can happen he has two other minor pieces exerting pressure on b5..} d6 {databases seem to indicate black has a decent game after e6... this was uncharted for me because of the oversight of the availability of c4 on move 3. so i'm on my own. my plan with d6 is to enter a dragon type position with a bishop on g7 exerting pressure on his weakened h8-a1 diagonal.} 4. d4 {so now i see that because of my weak a6 move he's going to be getting himself into a marozcy bind type position. so i conclude that my error wasn't huge. but it did allow him to play into the bind... which is advantageous for white i believe. looking at the board my position looks like crap. a6 is doing nothing. nothing is developed.} cxd4 { i have to take. letting him play d5 would be the death of me.} 5. Nxd4 { obviously} Nf6 {attacking the pawn.... normally in the Sicilian you do this so the knight gets developed to c3 blocking in the c-pawn... but it's all ready on c4... damn a6. i should have stuck to my guns and not tried to be tricky on move 2.} 6. Nc3 { obviously. thats not the word you want to be typing about your opponents move. } g6 {going along with the plan.} 7. f3 {a common move in the marozcy bind... preventing my knight from going to g4 harassing the good bishop which will be developed to e3. but i think its a little early here.... Be2 seems more straight forward and to the point. this is sort of committal.} Bg7 8. Be3 { following up after f3 by putting the bishop where it safely belongs.} O-O 9. Qd2 {giving him the option of trading off the dark square bishops on h3 should mine become powerful.} Qc7 {not the greatest move here... its the 4th or 5th according to one engine... but my position already stinks. all because i allowed c4. its +.90 right now.} 10. Be2 {developing and getting ready to castle. of the two places he could bring the bishop this was best. but its a well trodden road so this is no surprise.} Nbd7 {Heres a move where i had a lot of options... part of me wants to put my bishop on d7... that was the solid move, holding at +.90 but then i have no real interest in developing my knight to c3 afterwards (which is actually another +.90 move now) because that would allow the trade off of pieces. i figure i want to keep things complicated with minor pieces on the board because i have the advantage of being able to think longer.} 11. O-O {solid move. better was Nd5 but i suspect he didn't want to get into to complicated a position so he avoided it and played simple logical chess. any additional advantage he could have garnered from my last move is forgone for the moment. (still +.90)} Ne5 { my second best move. and a sharp one at that. best was e6 preventing Nd5 which sends my queen back home and places his knight on a powerful square. i was expecting this Nd5 move again and again, and it was never played. the engine will scream at him for the next 10 moves to play Nd5 whenever he can.... he never does. (+1.02)} 12. b3 {best was Nd5... but this moves good. protecting the pawn but in the process making his white bishop even worse. thus the word bind. (+.77)} b6 $2 {the engines still screaming at me to play e6 preventing his knight from reaching that d5 outpost with tempo. i considered it but decided that it would give him an easy to see weakness at d6 which he could focus on. i want to keep his plans hard to find. so i'm not willing to do this. part of me is still dreaming about a queenside push which isn't there, and part of me wants to buckle down on c5 so he cant push the pawn and activate his terrible bishop. b6? is the tenth move down the engine list... its not bad bad. but it gets me nowhere and could be creating a weakness that could later be exploited because the pawns are not protecting each other anymore. (+1.28 but only because Nd5 still exists and now i'd have to drop my queen back to the ugly b7 square to protect that new weak pawn)} 13. Kh1 {so he's happy with his position and doesn't want any quick action. he takes the time to move his king to a safer square passing up further advantages that could be grabbed with Nd5, but as i said. that will be the case forever and he never plays it. (+.68 back to a manageable number)} Bb7 { engine still likes e6, but i still say no easy target. this move sort of prevents Nd5 or at least takes away the bite... it puts pressure down the long diagonal towards his king and prevents a f4 break for the time being. its the second most recommended move... (+.76)} 14. Bh6 {this move surprised me... it's the 4th best move however which makes it not as bad as i asessed it over the board. he wants to trade off his good bishop which seems sort of silly to me. mines not doing anything yet so i don't get the point. i'm shocked its the 4th best. i was expecting it to be a lot worse. (+.50)} Rac8 {i decided no t to waste the tempo taking the bishop and instead would let him... i guess i waste it anyways recapturing which i didn't take into account at the board so then the question is which is more advantageous for me. my king on g2 or his queen on h3. displacing his queen to h3 would have been best... i didn't consider this at the time but afterwards his knights would be unprotected allowing me finally to get in b5! and start some counter play. instead i bring my rook to the dead file. its the third best move but Bxh3 was the active move and i missed a good chance here. (+1.02)} (14... Bxh6 15. Qxh6 b5) 15. Bxg7 {best} Kxg7 {forced (+1.02)} 16. Rac1 {its still screaming at him to play Nd5.. the rooks actually misplaced here and would serve him better on d1. (+. 45)} h5 {e6 is the way to keep it at +.45... things like Qd7 and Ned7 are around +.80... i see my queenside is going nowhere so i play on the other side. .. if i play passively now i think i'm in trouble in the long run so i try to create some advantage on the kingside. i'm thinking he might be playing something like g4 next move but that actually isn't all that solid. now (+1. 54) which sounds bad. but there are only two moves that show that it's bad (17. Nd5 [obviously again] and f4 [+1.12])} 17. h3 {h3? maybe he was playing for g4... and maybe he still is?? that would be a terrible mistake now as i'd get an either semi-open or open h-file with his king at the end of it. my kings nicely tucked up so rooks would fly to the left. (+.43 if i have the courage to play e6 next move, either wise about +.70)} h4 $6 {his move h3 really makes me think he was going to play for g4.. at the time i wanted to prevent this.. so i play h4. it looks pretty good. i get a nice outpost for my knight on g3... at least im doing something active here and trying to gain some space. (+1.04)} (17... e6 18. g4 hxg4 19. hxg4 Rh8+) 18. f4 {Qg5 would hav e been the way to show me h4 was king of silly... instead he played the move which i was expecting. f4.. testing my ability to protect my new pawn on h4 which may be a weakness. (+.56)} (18. Qg5 Rh8 19. f4 Nc6 20. Nf5+) 18... Ned7 { obviously (+.56)} 19. Bd3 $2 {bad and for a complicated reason i almost end up showing properly. theres pressure coming to the e4 pawn now that f4 has taken place. currently its attacked twice but protected once. better would have been Bf3 where it wont be harassed by my knight next move tieing him up even more. (+.06) my best position yet!} Nc5 {more pressure on e4. attacked thrice, protected twice. and i'm about to take one of his defending pieces. this is around the time he was cracking his knuckles every time he got to my board. i saw this as a good sign. (+.12)} 20. Rfe1 {i get a few more knuckle cracks. actually either protecting this way, or with the queen to e3 was equally fine. also Nd5 is just as well, harassing my queen back for the moment and blocking one of my lines of attack. (+.12)} Nxd3 {fifth best. and going against my policy of keeping the pieces on the board to keep things complicated. but i was getting worried that my kingside was getting weak and f5 might be very powerful especially with a bishop behind it. this is his bad bishop but the pawns are about to start moving and it might become very good very quick. so i take it off before it can retreat... which was in retrospect probably not that good anyways (+.47 best was Nh5 immediately which was my other candidate move e6 was also as good... but i was committed mentally to not weakening d6... which wouldn't have been all that weak anyways)} (20... Nh5 21. Nd5 Qd8 22. Qc3 Ng3+ 23. Kg1 e5) 21. Qxd3 {if taking was bad for any reason simple reason its because it gave him another nobrainer move. (+.55)} Nh5 {Nh5 would have been great a move earlier keeping me at (+.12) now i should play e6... like i should have so many times before. because Nd5 would be strong next move.} 22. f5 {Nd5 is the strongest move here by far. its been the strongest move at least 10 times this game... and im confused why he hasn't played it yet... (+. 28 if handled properly)} Ng3+ {properly so far} 23. Kg1 { obviously, Kh2 and he'll fall into traps with d5 with discovered checks to come } g5 {not my resource for maintaining equality. Qc5 was best. pinning the knight to the king and keeping the queen on the knight tieing him up. i never considered it, and would not consider Qc5 for the rest of the game in my factoring of variations. this made me miss what could have been some very good lines. Pin to win right? I don't know why i didn't see that as a good move... I guess Na4 always seemed just to push me back... but if Na4 when Qa5 keeping an eye on my kingside which is about to get blown up} (23... Qc5 24. Na4 Qa5) 24. Qe3 {Qe3 is just great. this puts g5 to the test. and it fails. (+2.22 and i'm toast, so toas)} Kf6 $4 {Holding onto my pawn at all costs. I will not go down in material and suffer a slow defeat. I will stay even at the detriment of my position where the pressure will grow to the size of my queen or death. Kh3 was my first idea... but then there are nasty things happening with my pinned pawn and maybe things like Nf6... i could actually get out of that particular variation with Qc5 skewering his queen to king and forcing a trade... but like i said. i never considered Qc5 to my downfall. Either way Kh3 was best but it was (+2.22 for him) i saw a lot of things wrong with it... so i went with a very weird move here just to see what happened. all other options went bad quickly for me and i didn't see any super immediate danger for me. He actually plays flawlessly for the rest of the game. showing exactly why this weird move is so wrong. (+7.93)} 25. Nd5+ Bxd5 26. cxd5 Qb8 { i need to maintain some control of e5 so the queen stays on the diagonal} 27. Nc6 {clearance!! now the d4 square is vacant for his queen and he attacks my queen with tempo.} Qc7 28. Qd4+ e5 {my only move} 29. dxe6# { mate by en passant. very rare. you could tell he was pleased} *

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