Hi folks,
I was able to carefully walk out of the Berlin Wall opening unscathed against stockfish lvl 8, and equalised at a point when all heavy pieces were traded off. Reaching this point itself was thanks to everyone’s helpful feedback on one of my earlier threads!
Now, we come straight to the endgame. At move 22, I played Ba3 and things started going downhill real fast from there. At that point in the game, I wanted to free up the e7 square for the knight so that in the future I could manoeuvre it to c6 (after playing c5) or to g6 (so that I can target the e5 pawn). Before playing 22...Ba3 I did consider some possible ramifications such as stockfish trying to trap my bishop or taking away my bishop pair advantage. However, in the game stockfish simply ended up getting passed pawns of the kingside.
My question is, at move 22, am I supposed to just sit and wait or try to play for an active plan of my own. In hindsight, the Be6 and Nf5 were good blockades of the kingside pawn majority. How would you have better approached this position, please let me know? Also, feel free to criticise other parts of the game, thank you! :)
I was able to carefully walk out of the Berlin Wall opening unscathed against stockfish lvl 8, and equalised at a point when all heavy pieces were traded off. Reaching this point itself was thanks to everyone’s helpful feedback on one of my earlier threads!
Now, we come straight to the endgame. At move 22, I played Ba3 and things started going downhill real fast from there. At that point in the game, I wanted to free up the e7 square for the knight so that in the future I could manoeuvre it to c6 (after playing c5) or to g6 (so that I can target the e5 pawn). Before playing 22...Ba3 I did consider some possible ramifications such as stockfish trying to trap my bishop or taking away my bishop pair advantage. However, in the game stockfish simply ended up getting passed pawns of the kingside.
My question is, at move 22, am I supposed to just sit and wait or try to play for an active plan of my own. In hindsight, the Be6 and Nf5 were good blockades of the kingside pawn majority. How would you have better approached this position, please let me know? Also, feel free to criticise other parts of the game, thank you! :)