Bird's Opening (1.f4)
Submitted by on Sat, 05/16/2009 at 9:53am.
Inaccuracies: 6 = 17.1% of moves
Mistakes: 1 = 2.9% of moves
Blunders: 0 = 0.0% of moves
Statistics are for white (chess.com compute analysis).
Although the description on the diagram say Online Chess, this is actually a Live game.
This is the computer analysis of the game. I know my opponent did not play the best moves; I am not concerned with that. I am mainly concerned with my play; I played well, not making too many mistakes and making 0 blunders, which I am very, very happy about.
If you have any comments of recommendation about how I could of played better please leave a post.
My thoughts during the game:
1) f4
The Bird's Opening; attempting to get a head start on a King-side attack.
2) d4
The plan was to gambit the pawn and increase the development of my pieces.
After d6, I’m thinking Queen trade and if e6, play e4, controlling the center.
7) c3
Prevents the N from advancing and possibly causing problems. I did consider Be3.
8) Bd3
I considered e5, forcing the N to move again, however, it had plenty of good squares to move to and I did not want to give my opponent another move.
12) Nxe5
I briefly thought fxe5, although I did not want to double up my pawns. Yes, the N would need to move but again, plenty of good squares. I also saw that Nxe5 would attack the undefended f7 pawn, forking the King and (h8)Rook. Something would have to be done; I gain tempo?
14) Nf3
Took a long while to decide that the N (on d7, my opponent's) is in a bad spot and an extra move would need to be made to make the N useful; so I did not want to trade my N. My N on f3 was more useful to me than trading.
16) Rad1
To control the open d-file.
18) e5
Now the N is forced to move again. Free pawn advance in my mind. Update: it has been pointed out to me that advancing pawns will create a weakness in the structure. While I know this, I feel evaluating pawn-structure is one of my weaknesses.
19) Rf2
I saw Ng3 and I did not want to move in reaction to his action. I also figured 2-Rooks on the d-file can be an advantage.
21) Ng5
I really did not want to move here, although I felt I had to. He had 2 attackers on the e4 square, I need defense.
22) Bf2
I am very willing to trade-off the Bishop to get rid of the N (too deep into my territory).
22)…f6 & 23)…fxe5
I figured it was a mistake by my opponent. I did take my time on the move just in case I missed something.
24) Nc7+
I knew this was a winning move. The trade is Rook, Knight, & pawn (for white); black gets, Knight & Bishop.
29) c4
My thought was prevent 29)…c4
Is this the best move? I’m not sure; pawn pushing/structure is another one of my weak point that I need to maybe do some studying on. Update: a4 has been suggested to me as an alternate move, although I believe this can be met with (my opponent playing) 29)...c4 himself...
Another suggestion that's been made is to put pawn on opposite colors as my bishop (light-square ~ meaning my pawns should be on dark squares); although I know this, I did not consider it during the game as I felt (going with feeling the game as oppose to actually calculating, which [in all honesty] sometimes get me in trouble) I had plenty of diagonals for my bishop as is...
34)…Bc7
This was unexpected. I was expecting Rh8 to help support the 8th-rank. Definitely a losing move. Could be called a "blunder" by a computer program since it loses a piece with no compensation. Update: after Rh8, my move would still be R to 7th rank as controlling the 7th is a good way to continue the game...