02 June 2025

Annotated Game #309: Don't assume the move is good

In this next tournament game, I make two bad assumptions about a move being good, and am punished for it. The first one is the e3-e4 break in the Stonewall Attack, which has to be more carefully prepared. The second one is the result of a hallucination and assuming that I could escape a pawn fork, which in fact I could not. For whatever reason I was more mentally tired than I should have been during the game, which led to the unfortunate short-circuiting of my thinking process.


[Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "ChessAdmin"] [Black "Class A"] [Result "0-1"] [Annotator "ChessAdmin/Dragon 3.2"] [ECO "D05"] [PlyCount "44"] [GameId "2173571441721411"] {[%evp 0,23,25,26,13,5,9,-8,9,-15,-22,-31,-33,-14,-12,-20,-22,-12,-24,-12,-4,-28,-8,-18,-25,-8]} 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 e6 4. f4 Be7 5. Nd2 b6 6. Ngf3 Bb7 7. O-O O-O 8. Ne5 c5 9. c3 Nbd7 10. Qf3 a6 11. g4 {pursuing the standard Stonewall Attack kingside expansion plan.} Nxe5 12. fxe5 Nd7 13. Qh3 g6 14. e4 $2 {this looks active, but unfortunately the e-pawn break idea is not supported sufficiently.} (14. Nf3 f6 15. exf6 (15. g5 $5 fxg5 16. Qxe6+ Kg7 17. Qg4 Bc8 18. Qg2 $11) 15... Nxf6 (15... Bxf6 16. g5 Bxg5 17. Qxe6+ $11) 16. Bd2 Ne4 17. Bxe4 dxe4 18. Ne5 $11) 14... Bg5 $6 {this should let White escape after exd5, but instead I play} (14... cxd4 15. cxd4 b5 {taking away the c4 square from White's minor pieces.} 16. exd5 Qb6 {White's center is not sufficiently defended.} 17. Nb3 Nxe5 $17) 15. Nf3 $4 {my "internal board sight" failed here - of course after the Bc1 is exchanged the knight cannot go to g5, which I hallucinated, because of the Qd8 covering the square. I was mentally tired and prematurely cut off my own thinking process, with plenty of time on the clock.} (15. exd5 Bxd5 16. Be4 $11) 15... Bxc1 16. Raxc1 dxe4 $19 {and now the game is effectively over, although I try for a swindle based on a desperate kingside attack.} 17. Qh6 exf3 18. Rce1 cxd4 19. Be4 Bxe4 20. Rxe4 f5 21. gxf5 Rxf5 22. Rh4 Qg5+ 0-1

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