Author: Matt Thomas
Date: 20:42:46 02/28/04
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On February 26, 2004 at 09:06:08, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>On February 26, 2004 at 01:51:58, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
>>I decided to try and give myself a fighting chance and played one of the lower
>>level characters in Deep Sjeng. I probably just got lucky. I saw an awesome
>>fork, of course just after I moved another piece in the game. What do you think
>>of my style of play?
>
>You're not strong enough to have a style.
>
That's dissapointing. Maybe I can have a losing style? :)
>>
>>[Event "I"]
>>[Site "The Ivory Tower"]
>>[Date "2004.02.24"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "Matt Thomas"]
>>[Black "Deep Sjeng 1.5 - Amateur"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[Opening "B27 Sicilian: Hungarian Variation"]
>>
>>1. Nf3 c5 2. e4 g6 3. Bc4 d6 4. O-O Bg7 5. Qe1?
>
>I call such moves picture painting. You evidently have seen something similar
>before and are copying it without understanding the idea. Optically it looks the
>same, but idea wise it is not.
>
No, I am not making random moves, even though it may appear that way.
I am posting my annotation of the game below.
>>Nc6 6. a3? Bg4 7. Qe3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3
>
>White has made 2 redundant moves (Qe1 and Qe3) to accomplish this recapture with
>his most powerful piece. Not good.
>
I am still working on tempo. The reason for the moves is that I don't like to
lose castle integrity. I didn't see a way around these moves.
>>e6 9. Ra2?
>
>An extravagance that takes a natural retreat square from the Bc4.
>
I saw other avenues of escape, but the main reason was that I had plans for the
b2 pawn and the pin from the Black Bishop rained on those plans.
>>Nd4 10. Qd3 h6? 11. c3? Nc6 12. b4 cxb4 13. axb4 Nge7 14. Na3 O-O 15. h4 Ne5 16.
>>Qe3 Nxc4
>>17. Nxc4 a6? 18. d4 Qd7? 19. b5? Qxb5 20. Nxd6 Qd7 21. e5 Nf5 22. Qf4 Nxd6 23. exd6
>>Rfc8
>>24. Bd2 a5? 25. h5 gxh5 26. Qg3 Kh8 27. Re1 a4? 28. Re5? Bxe5?
>
>28...Qxd6 wins.
>
>>29. Qxe5+ Kh7 30. Qf6
>>Kg8 31. Bxh6
>>Qxd6 32. Qg7# 1-0
>
>You should annotate this game in detail (spend 2 hours at least) by yourself
>without the aid of a computer program, then go over your annotations with the
>help of Sjeng on a normal setting. I've peppered the game score with "?", which
>you can ignore or use as hints if you wish. This will be more helpful to you
>than posting it on the internet and asking, "What do you think of my style of
>play?"
I have done some self analyis now without help from the computer.
I think I disagree with you on style. I may play badly, but there is still
something there as to a style or method to my moves. I have seen differences in
the way the pros play and they do have distinctive styles. Some like swapping
pieces, some like positional with the occasional tactical, some like more
agressive moves, some like passive. There are always going to be differences
like this, even it a small time player as myself. Even the strongest players
must have started out badly to some extent.
I ran the game thru Fritz7 for analysis and it marked some
questionable/blunderish moves, which I agree I did make. It gave me
surprisingly little of those though and it gave the Deep Sjeng - Amatuer player
more. I did expect this because it is a low level player designed for offering
a mistake here and there. It is interesting that it did not find many of my
moves to be horrible.
I think my game would have been better had I more sleep. I was averaging about
2-4 hrs a day this week. Time was also a factor, this was a 7 min. game. I
decided to sleep well and played Tournament time of 40mov/1hr + 20mov/30min.
This has given me improved results. I will post my next 2 games, they offer, I
hope, better game play.
I appreciate the time you have taken to review my game. Everyone these days
runs their games thru computer analysis, and this is good to catch blunders and
the usual standard bad moves. I think that only people can see where strategy
runs aground. Strategy is definitely one area that I need to improve since I
seem to be lacking in it. I think that my focus on the board may be the
problem, maybe I am trying to accomplish too many things. This is the reason
for my post also, to see what others see in my playing style.
I posted my annotated game if you are interested to see what makes me tick.
My annotations (I recommend ChessPad to review this):
==============
[Event "Practice"]
[Site "home"]
[Date "2004.02.24"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Matt Thomas"]
[Black "Deep Sjeng 1.5 - Amateur"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Opening "B27 Sicilian: Hungarian Variation"]
{My first game against the Deep Sjeng Amatuer player.} 1. Nf3
{I wanted to try this opening. It prevents a King pawn opening for Black.} 1...
c5 {Black hampers development of my Queen pawn.} 2. e4
{I can and do develop the King pawn to stake out a piece of the center.} 2... g6
{I see wing attack about to form.} 3. Bc4
{I want to castle and move the Bishop to a reasonably good position.} 3... d6
{Black can not develop the Queen pawn to it furthest reach so pushes it a
little.}
4. O-O {King safety right away.} 4... Bg7 {This move is a precursor to e5.} 5.
Qe1 {I expect Bg4 and want to try deflating the pin.} 5... Nc6
{Black still expects d4.} 6. a3 {This prevents Nb4.} 6... Bg4
{Not much of a pin now.} 7. Qe3
{I decide that opening the drawbridge on my castle is not beneficial at this
time - so I protect the Knight.}
7... Bxf3 {Predictable.} 8. Qxf3 {As planned.} 8... e6 {The idea is 9...d5} 9.
Ra2 {I am thinking of working the Queenside and unpin the b2 pawn.} 9... Nd4
{An attempt to chase the Queen and obtain c2.} 10. Qd3
{Both c2 and e2 are safe now.} 10... h6 {This is a pointless move.} 11. c3
{Prodding the Knight.} 11... Nc6 12. b4
{I push the pawn as planned several moves back.} 12... cxb4
{I anticipated this.} 13. axb4 {A half open file has appeared.} 13... Nge7
{Black has concerns for the Knight on c6.} 14. Na3 O-O {Finally.} 15. h4
{I have plans for the Black King's fort.} 15... Ne5
{Black is rattling my Queen.} 16. Qe3
{I think about removing the pawn at g6 and moving the Queen to g3 and moving my
Bishop to h6.}
16... Nxc4 17. Nxc4 a6 18. d4 {Making a distraction.} 18... Qd7 19. b5
{This was stupid since I was offered a fork.} 19... Qxb5 20. Nxd6
{I have plans on squeezing the King.} 20... Qd7 21. e5 Nf5 22. Qf4 Nxd6 23. exd6
Rfc8 24. Bd2 a5 25. h5 gxh5 26. Qg3 Kh8 {The best laid plans of mice and men...}
27. Re1 {Okay, need a plan B.} 27... a4 28. Re5 {A little sacrifice.} 28... Bxe5
29. Qxe5+ Kh7
{Note that if the 29...Kg7 would have the same outcome. f3 would not and would
have been helpful.}
30. Qf6 Kg8 31. Bxh6 Qxd6 32. Qg7#
{This would not have been so easy if not playing the low level Deep Sjeng -
Amatuer player. At least I got a chance to practice a sacrifice. This was a 7
minute game.}
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