Back in tournament play last night, and I'll do my by-now usual routine of impressions today, game posting with comments tomorrow or as soon as I can get to it...
Mr. Robert J. Bennett played very good chess and defeated me last night in the first round of the Reno CC Ch. qualifier.
He may not have played the best opening (1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. cd g6 4. Nc3 Nxd5) but in the Gruenfeld-type position which followed he played all the right strategic themes to keep my big center in check and his disadvantage to a minimum. Then I got pushy, instead of just keeping things stable until an opportunity arose naturally, agonized over a promising but unclear Exchange sacrifice and didn't play it, then played it the next move a tempo down compared to the original version...and just when I was going to get a promising attack on his King he sacrificed back the Exchange, ended up a Pawn to the good with a very active position and polished me off with good moves.
He played very well and deserved to win, and that's the bottom line. And sometimes, there's not much more to say than that about a game of chess!
3 comments:
Do you have a PGN file of your recent loss to Pearson? email me at raylopez99@yahoo.com with it. I want to see how bad you truly are... LOL
that is one of the things i am really trying to figure out, how, some games, you don't make any mistakes, you seem to play the right moves, but the other guy just somehow moved better...it's an intangible, ethereal thing. baffles me. chalk it up to a free lesson and get him back...good luck
Good Luck in the rest of your games : -) http://pechesscast.blogspot.com/
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