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Irish-Sicillian

I have just beat the chess.com computer at the hardest level using the sicillian. 1e4...c5 so go on we all know its blacks best response.

I did not get a chance to play the dragon and do not know if this is a slightly new variation as the computer made a few unexpected moves in the opening and black probably made a few unconvential moves alsoqxbe7(nxbe7)  h7 na2sacrifice

The dragon is probably the more complex variation of the dragon anyway and probably more for GMs as there can be some quick exchanges but i still believe there is a lot of study left that black can use to almost guarantee atleast a draw in all variations of the sicillian.

Here is my game and if there are any GMs around who could analyse this game from both whites choices and blacks response that would be super.

 

Well an Irish Victory always goes down well on the eve of St Patricks Day and using an old Italian defense i suppose fits as the Irish and the Italians have a close affinity. I have posted the diagram in the traditional chess.com blue and the more clasical pieces for those who prefer

Ps best of luck to everyone backing Horses in cheltenham

Comments

  • 11 months ago

    ausxh

    hello merhco you are not gonna be the team captain for gm onischuk vs. chess.com

  • 14 months ago

    merchco

    I don't know how the computer missed the mate which it surely is did not even see it but it did and it is the chess .com computer

  • 14 months ago

    andymanchan

    Sorry, merchco, I'm no GM but I can make a few comments from what I observed from the game. I like reading fellow teammate's blogs and responding to their thoughts!

    The computer surely decided to get off book early, but I think you handled the Bb5+ nicely, as white's KB is usually more important than black's QB. After booting his Q with Nc6 Qd3, you could have opted to get to the dragon setup with g6 before Nf6 if you wanted. Nf6 was fine, but against Bg5 I think Ng4/Nge5 makes more sense than to let white double your kingside pawns and weaken your d6 pawn with exf6.

    Nxa2 was quite a dubious sacrifice, something hard to do against a computer! After the forking with 20.Nb6 Qe6+, I'm surprised white didn't Qd5 to offer the trade of Q and win the Ra8. Still, up a rook and having to stop the black pawn advance is all the computer needed to do, but instead allowed black to hang around and compounded it with 31.bxa3, when 31.Qxf7 leads to mate in two. How'd a computer miss that?!

    In any case, perservering through difficult positions makes us better, as we don't always play from an advantage from the start. Nice comeback!

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