Chess Lesson 7-6-2017

For chess players, I am suggesting that you can get a lot of enjoyment from the website www.chess.com

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Chess dot com has 18 million members and more than 65 live playing members online at any single moment in time. It also provides lessons on all aspects of the game - opening, middle and ending, plus strategy. After each live on-line game with an opponents miles away from us, chess.com provides us with a quick analysis of the game played.

And, the most interesting aspect of chess.com is that it is available free of charge. Of course, if we want to go into deeper analysis of our game and further advanced lessons, there is a subscription fee to pay but the payment is well worth the while.

The featured image above shows the result of a quick 10-minutes-a-side game I played earlier this morning with a French player, both of us rated at 775 (this is the rate given by chess.com based on the past played matches).

The French player, playing white, resigned after 30 moves when the game started to be interesting in the middlegame stage. At the time of his resignation, he had a time advantage having a 5:49 minutes remaining compared to 4:37 minutes remaining for Black.

The moves and the analysis of each move by way of percentage rates given by chess.com were as follows:

Move	White	%rating		Black	% rating		Winner every move
	Pmilt (775)			Fpfl (775)
1	e4			e5	1.8
2	Nf3	1.9		d6	3.2		Black
3	Nc3	1.4		f5	2.5		B
4	exf5	1.4		Bxf5	2.2		B
5	Bc4	7.1		Nf6	8.5		B
6	O-O	6.3		d5	3.5		White
7	Bb3	8.0		d4	7.3		W
8	Nb5	14.4		Qd7	5.9		W
9	Ba4	7.3		c6	4.4		W
10	Na3	10.9		b5	2.8		W
11	Bb3	4.8		Be6	2.2		W
12	Nxe5	15.9		Qd6	25.5		Black
13	Qe1	14.4		Bxb3	5.1		White
14	axb3	8.4		c5	2.7		W
15	Nxb5	4.7		Qb6	3.9		W
16	Na3	14.0		Nc6	35.1		Black
17	Nec4+	2.6		Be7	30.6		B
18	Nxb6	1.4		axb6	6.2		B
19	d3	7.7		Ra7	6.8		White
20	Qe6	6.3		Rc7	19.4		Black
21	Bf4	7.2		Rd7	18.5		B
22	Nb5	30.3		Nd8	29.9		White
23	Ra8	27.9		Nd5	39.7		Black
24	Qxb6	9.2		Nxb6	16.6		B
25	Bc7	8.4		Nxa8	4.8		White
26	Bd6	10.5		Bxd6	4.2		W
27	Re1+	1.8		Kf7	10.6		Black
28	b4	7.7		cxb4	3.2		White	(Total 14 netter moves)
29	Nxd4	5.5		Re8	11.0		Black	(Total 14 better moves)
30	Rxe8	2.6		Kxe8
Pmilt resigns
minutes remaining at resignation	White 5.49			Black 4:37

Black used the Philidor defense on White’s e4 opening:

Black’s favorite third move is f5, inviting an exchange of the pawns with his B occupying f5 spot after the exchange if taken White is to take his pawn. It is important for beginners to observe that the aim of any beginning game is to have as many pieces as possible occupying the center stage of the chess board within the square c3-f3-f6-c6 positions.

At move # 6, Black’s pawn at d5 was threatening White’s Bishop at c4. Then when Black’s Bishop moved away, the same pawn stepped up the offense by moving to d4, threatening White’s N (Knight), move # 7.

When next White moved his N to b5 threatening to occupy position c7 with a c7+ and thus forcing a capture of the Black R at a8, Black moved his Q to d7, preventing the expected move.

Photo after move # 8.

White made a mistake by moving Ba4 as a Black move to c6 meant that Black had to move backward. A backward move in any opening game is a bad move as it gives the opponent an additional time advantage.

We can see that from moves # 8 to # 11, Black had been pushed backward and to the board’s edge.

At move # 13, when Black captured White’s Bishop, Black’s strategy was to exchange pieces of equivalent point values to free up the Board so that Black’s pieces could move freely.

State of the Chess Board after move # 13. The danger to Black was the White’s N occupying the e4 position, otherwise Black had more pieces in the central locations.

At move # 16, when White’s N threatened Black’s Q, Black moved Qb6 to force White’s N back to position a3. This proved to be a vital mistake for Black as White then moved his other N to Nec4+ (check by White’s Q at e1) forcing the capture of White’s Q at d6.

Moves # 18 to # 21 were brilliant moves by White, threatening White’s R at a8, White’s N at c6 nd then with Bf4, threatening R at c7.

Move # 23 when Black’s N threatened to capture White’s Q, White moved Ra8, preventing this to happen.

Then at move # 24, White made a Blunder of a move by capturing Black’s pawn at b6, thus losing his Q when next Black moved Nxb6. This blunder can be put to the pressure of any player when playing 10-minutes-a-side games when the time is pressing on the mind.

Confusion reigned logic from then on with Black losing his B and then later his R.

Resignation may not be his best option but it was difficult to see him winning the game unless White had another blunderous mistake on the way home.