The road to ELO 2000: a nice good positional win.

Submitted by gambitattack on Thu, 06/11/2009 at 5:31pm.

If there's is one chess book I had to recommend, it has to be 'Simple Chess' by Micheal Sean. In his brief but incredibly insightful book, he sheds lights on how to identify positional elements/goals in which one can work towards too, showing with good illustrative games how positional advantages can eventually leads to decisive victory.

This next game is a tribute to him and his book. It's far from perfect, but at least computer analysis has shown that I had not made any mistakes on my part.

Thank you GM Sean!

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by gambitattack - 4 months ago
Singapore Singapore

Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 137

Thanks Whipster for the constructive comment. You are right, challenging white's dubious second move via 2..e6 was definitely more direct and straightforward.

However, I do not agree that white has managed to archieve a 'good position' even after black's chosen continuation. Certainly white has archieved a spacious advantage, but the position remains equal because of black's counterplay in the middle via a later ...c6 or.. e6. In the long term, Black would probably trade off his light square bishop for a white knight and focus on the weakened dark squares in the centre.

Having said all that Black could have really taken the bull via it's neck via 2...e6, perhaps I"m just more comfortable with KID positions as black and wanted to end up in a position which I was familiar with.

by Whipster - 4 months ago
Kabul Afghanistan

Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 387

A good win, but I don't think that the game was very positional - on the contrary, it seemed to have tactical overtones. :D

I think you could've taken advantage of your opponent's second move more, by challenging it directly with 2...e6. While what you played was solid by all means, but slightly passive, and let him have a good position from a dubious second move. His sixth move did let him down.

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