Winning with the Berlin Wall (9)

Submitted by Phobetor on Tue, 05/05/2009 at 11:05am.

It's been a while since my previous blog post, mainly because my enthusiasm for chess dropped to a minimum in the last few weeks, but here's the 9th post in the Berlin Wall series! Again, it's about a game I played online, but this time the title is a bit off, since neither side won. However, you could say I won the battle for the draw, because my opponent was 2560 FIDE-rated Grandmaster Julian Radulski. So a draw is not that bad for me, considering I had black against a 350 points higher rated player :)

Below is the game, and, well, although the game is not that spectacular, it shows how comfortably black can sometimes get a draw. I mean, in the game I was never worse, and he never really had a chance to win. How often do you get such an easy draw against a GM? :)

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Comments:

by ih8sens - 55 days ago
Sudbury, Ontario Canada
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 2761

After studying all 9 games I have 2 things to say.

1 - Excellent blogs!  I'll be playing the Berlin Defense in the near future (been workin on it 'secretly' for a couple months) and this has only inspired me.

2 - Keep em comin!  Maybe some common white deviations (even stuff like 4. Qe2) are worth blogging?

 

Thanks again!  Matt.

by Konstantyn - 5 months ago
United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 187

to BirdBrain---could you post a sample game in the Re1 format?

by BirdBrain - 6 months ago
KY United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 1805

That's awesome...but I have also seen what appears to be a more tactical version of the Berlin without the early d4, instead with Re1...then what do you play?  I witnessed a few sample games and White seemed to have a lot more fire.  I don't know why people want to continue with White in the d4 format...

by Catalyst_Kh - 6 months ago
Kharkov Ukraine
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 926

Nice strategical play of yours, was pleasant to look at. Thanks for sharing.

 

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