At 10:10 I'm glad you spent a lot of time on that move. I think (not using engine) qa6 was the best move, not only preventing Bb5, but also preventing Qa4+ (though the knight can block). The risk would have been rb8 followed by o-o, bb5 forking your queen and rook, thankfully your dark square bishop nicely prevents the rook from reaching b8 to guard the bishop on b5. Anyway, because good moves are rarely reanalyzed, I just want to note that Qc7 would have lost you the game, after a queen trade on c7 and rc8 hitting your bishop, if you move your bishop anywhere, you'll get rc1+ forcing your king to move and you lose your rook on h1 so good job not going for c7!
Just to add onto that, your knight then becomes stuck for a very long time whilst you try and get your rook out the way, as the black rook on h1 will pin your knight to your rook as well. The game would effectively have been over.
Nice game. One more for a 4 digit elo! The most satisfying milestone. If you find playing against the King's Indian (aka anti-London) frustrating with the London, you're not alone -- it is a very difficult setup to face because it blunts the power of your beautiful London D3 bishop. So you might consider on your 3rd move, instead of E3, to play NF3 instead. It's a less committal move, because it gives you time to change your setup if he chooses to play the King's Indian. Setting up a battery with bishop on F4 and queen on D2 allows you to trade off his powerful Fianchetto'd bishop, then castling queen side and starting a king-side pawn storm is a great way to steam-roll the Kings Indian (aka anti-london). I'm happy to give you a crash course if you're interested in acquiring a weapon against the KID.
One.. more.. game!
At 10:10 I'm glad you spent a lot of time on that move. I think (not using engine) qa6 was the best move, not only preventing Bb5, but also preventing Qa4+ (though the knight can block). The risk would have been rb8 followed by o-o, bb5 forking your queen and rook, thankfully your dark square bishop nicely prevents the rook from reaching b8 to guard the bishop on b5.
Anyway, because good moves are rarely reanalyzed, I just want to note that Qc7 would have lost you the game, after a queen trade on c7 and rc8 hitting your bishop, if you move your bishop anywhere, you'll get rc1+ forcing your king to move and you lose your rook on h1 so good job not going for c7!
Just to add onto that, your knight then becomes stuck for a very long time whilst you try and get your rook out the way, as the black rook on h1 will pin your knight to your rook as well. The game would effectively have been over.
Looking forward to your road to 2000 series 😝
Nice game. One more for a 4 digit elo! The most satisfying milestone.
If you find playing against the King's Indian (aka anti-London) frustrating with the London, you're not alone -- it is a very difficult setup to face because it blunts the power of your beautiful London D3 bishop. So you might consider on your 3rd move, instead of E3, to play NF3 instead. It's a less committal move, because it gives you time to change your setup if he chooses to play the King's Indian. Setting up a battery with bishop on F4 and queen on D2 allows you to trade off his powerful Fianchetto'd bishop, then castling queen side and starting a king-side pawn storm is a great way to steam-roll the Kings Indian (aka anti-london).
I'm happy to give you a crash course if you're interested in acquiring a weapon against the KID.
Looking forward to the next game!🎉
Hey we're doing the same thing!
I'm like 400 ELO though :(
gl on the journey bro
Let's gooo
Could have played me and been 1000. I would have let you win to go viral. Not one game played with me being 1500