How not to play the … ?
During the previous lessons we have created some opening reports as well as an opening analysis of the Lolli attack. We have done this while learning how to use a chess database in general and ChessDB in particular. But by creating this opening analysis we are looking for the good games, in fact almost always ignoring the bad games. And these games contain a lot of chess lessons to be learned, especially when these are you own games. But even when you know the right moves it has to be interesting to know why. In other words to know why the other moves are bad.
For example when we look at the opening report of the Lolli attack we notice that Black succeeded in winning eight of the games and by now we now that White must have done something wrong during these games.
The exercise of this lesson is to figure out why White lost the game for each of these eight games.
As an example I have added some annotations to one of these games (the game Jacko, Tomas - Smistik, Milan) leaving you with seven games to annotate by yourself.
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Lolli |
( 9.Nxf7 +- is the better and more frequently played move )
9… fxe6 10.Qh5+ Kd8 11.Bg5+ seems to be not the best move 11...Be7 12.Bxe7+ Ncxe7 13.Nd2 b5 This is the first move that makes the game different from all other games in the database 14.Bb3
( 17.Ree1 is stronger, but White is still better )
( 20.Nb3! +- )
( 21.a4 is a better alternative. After the text move White only has a slight advantage left )
21… Qxc2 22.b4 Rae8 23.Nc5+ Ka8 24.Qxg7 Qc3 25.Rf1 Qxb4 26.Rxe8+ Rxe8 = Now it is about even. The rest of the game may be interesting, but not from the perspective of an opening analysis.
27.Qd7 Qxc5 28.Qxe8+ Kb7 29.h3?! d3 30.Rd1 Qc4 31.Qh5 Qe4 =+ 32.Kf1 a6 33.Re1 Qc4 34.Kg1 d2 35.Rd1 Qe4 36.Kh2? Nc3 -+ 37.Qxh6 Nxd1 38.Qxd2 Qa4 39.Qd5+ Kb6 40.Qe6+ c6 41.Qf6 Qc2 42.Qd8+ Kc5 43.Qe7+ Kc4 44.Qe6+ Kb4 45.Qd6+ Ka4 46.a3 a5 47.f4 b4 48.axb4 axb4 49.Qd4 Ka3 50.f5 Nc3 51.f6 Qf5 52.Qd6 Nd5 53.Qxc6 Qf4+ 54.Kh1 Nxf6 55.Qa6+ Kb2 56.Qe2+ Kc3 57.Qe1+ Kd3 58.Qb1+ Kc4 59.Qc2+ Kd4 60.Qb2+ Kd5 61.Qb3+ Qc4 62.Qf3+ Ne4 63.Qd1+ Kc5 64.Qh5+ Kd4 65.Qd1+ Qd3 66.Qa1+ Kc4 67.Qa2+ b3 68.Qa6+ Kc3 69.Qa5+ Kc2 70.Qc7+ Nc3 0-1














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