[Event "Live Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "????.??.??"] [White "mcordoba19"] [Black "visualdennis"] [Result "0-1"] [TimeControl "600+2"] [Variant "Chess960"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/visualdennis"] [FEN "nrkbbrqn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/NRKBBRQN w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/HZajpZ0R/QxZWtRBm"] [Orientation "white"] 1. e4 f5 { Hitting a2, opening space for three pieces with one move. Queen, rook and bishop on e8 already ready to join the game. } 2. exf5 Rxf5 { Now that my rook is on the same diagonal with my king, i need to watch out for Bg4 before d6. But i dont want to hurry retreating my rook, instead i want to provoke him to challenge my rook and see how he wants to develop, accordingly i ll develop my own plan. } 3. Nb3 Nb6 { c4 is a sensible spot at the moment, also now that he played on Nb3, in some cases i can go to Na4 to hit b2 as he is likely to castle queenside, it wont be easy to challenge my knight from there. It makes sense to bring the knights from corner into play as quickly as possible, but i did choose to play with a8-Knight over h6-Knight first, because i still want to give my bishop on e8 some options and leave space on g6-f7 as long as possible. So im still waiting for his reactions. } 4. d3 e5 { putting pressure on center with e5 since i cannot play d5 at the moment. now i m controlling f4,f5,e5,d5,d4 squares already after 4 moves. e5 also opens room for d8-Bishop, for example h6-c1 diagonal. } 5. Bd2 Ng6 { Now i ll go for f4 with my knight and slowly enter whites camp. } 6. Bg4 Rf8 { White could not resist to kicking my rook, but i got what i wanted. Even though bishop seems to pin my d7 pawn, it wont be very hard to kick that bishop back with tempo, for example h5 later. And if he goes back to Bf3 without being challenged by my pieces then he already has lost a little bit time } 7. Ng3 Nf4 8. O-O-O h5 9. Bf3 { Now that i forced bishop back to f3, which cramps white camp in the kingside as queen on g1 is king of prisoned by whites own pawns. Bringing the queen into game seems to be main problem of white now. } 9... g5 { Moves like Nh3 would bring black nothing, even if white takes gh3 instead of Qh1 and has doubled on h file, exchanging my powerful knight on f4 for the bishop on f3 that feels a bit loose and awkward there does not make much sense to me. But the Nh3 idea makes me realize that Bishop feels loose there and i start to to look for other ways to exploit this. } 10. Rde1 h4 11. Ne4 h3 { Trying to eliminating g2 pawn that is protecting bishop, also ruining the pawn structure of white. It is important not to recapture Nxh3 if 12.gh3 but play 12..Nd3 and then take f3 with rook. Now blacks pawn structure is really problematic that is it worth exchanging my knight for bishop and even releasing some tension on his queen. Because after the exchange 12..gh3 Nd3 13.cd3 Rf3 also d3 pawn is weak and im threatening eliminating and important protector of c4 square. For example if 14.Kc2 i might start to look if 14... Rd3 15.Kd3 Qc4 works. I think best reply of white would be 14.Re3 } 12. Nec5 g4 13. Be4 d5 14. g3 dxe4 15. gxf4 exd3 16. Nxd3 exf4 17. Nxf4 Bh4 { Not letting queen into game via f3 is very crucial, now that h1-c6 diagonal is also opened, i take control of it with my bishop on e8 and trap his queen. } 18. Re4 Bc6 19. Rd4 O-O-O { My developement is over. Im quite happy with my position, all pieces are well coordinated, active and have a function. King is safe. } 20. Kb1 Bf3 { Maybe there was winning tactic, but i didnt feel necessary to calculate much, instead simply not let him go Rd1,Qe1 etc. } 21. Be3 Nc4 22. Re1 Nxe3 { Now thought that wins some material since he cannot take with pawn and has to take with rook, which leaves knight on f4 loose. } 23. Rxe3 Rxf4 { if 24.Rf4 i was going to go Rd1 Qd1 Bd1 and my winning plan is simply to come back to Bf3 and eliminate whites kingside pawns. } 24. Rxf3 Rfxd4 { White is simply piece down after this move. } 0-1