Standard Chess
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2018
- I take on my former student, Tom (USCF: 1902), in a pair of 15+10 games. Here an Exchange Queen's Gambit Declined leads to a customary minority attack for White, but I struggle to counter Tom's response 15...b5, intending ...Nb6-c4. The play shifts to the center and kingside, and with mutual time pressure looming all three results are possible.
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Hi, this is Tom again (thshupe). Here are my thoughts on this game:
Quick comment on openings, generally. John has a good memory; I did play the King’s Indian for years. I also played 1. e4 and the Sicilian Najdorf because I wanted to play like Fischer. In a video I watched on his channel, Simon Williams said that many players have opening repertoires that do not suit their playing style. I reflected on this and realized that I fit into this group. My repertoire may have been “best by test,” but I never felt completely comfortable playing these positions. I made the switch to playing classical openings with black (e.g., 1. e4 e5 / 1. d4 d5) and 1.d4 with white. It took a lot of work to overhaul completely my repertoire, but it was well worth it. What I like best about playing classically (such as the Queen’s Gambit Declined) is that if I forget my preparation, I can often find book moves over the board because they are logical. Conversely, some lines in the King’s Indian Defense are only playable for black if one plays a nuanced, counter-intuitive move.
I think the exchange variation/minority attack is the most challenging to meet as a Queen’s Gambit Declined player. I have excellent results playing the mainline Tartakower’s Defense/hanging pawns structure. I learned about this b7-b5, Nb6-Nc4 idea to counter the minority attack from Daniel King’s excellent ChessBase DVD on the Queen’s Gambit Declined shop.chessbase.com/en/products/king_power_play_23_queens_gambit_declined . In my opinion, he is the only other chess video author in the same league as John. I’ve known about this line for awhile, but this game is actually the first time I’ve played this variation. I’m glad to see it posed problems for someone of John’s caliber, which gives me confidence to play it going forward.
John said he played 14. b4 prematurely. 14. Rfc1 is interesting because I have to find useful waiting moves before I can play ...b7-b5 (...g7-g6 and ...Ne4 come to mind).
On 19. Bxc4, I played 19…bxc4 rather quickly to capture towards the center. Perhaps ...dxc4 was worth considering? It cuts across the idea of playing b5 or e4 to undermine my queenside structure. However, white could play e4 more easily to take over the center, so it’s difficult to assess.
I expected John to play 23. e4 instead of h3. It’s definitely a useful move to give the king luft, but it also gave me a target to attack with my light squared bishop (i.e., sacrificial idea with ...Bxh3, which became a theme later in the game). That’s why I played ...Bc8 on the next move, which also improved my coordination on the seventh rank.
I liked my move 25...e3! :) It creates dark square weaknesses around his king and weakens the second rank in preparation for an eventual ...Ra2. The trade off is that I activate his rook on f1 and have to cope with pressure on f7. I was playing to win, and I thought this was the most dynamic way for me to play.
27. Kh2 was the most critical move in the game for me (I spent 3:31 on my next move). At first glance, I thought I was winning with ...Bxh3, but then saw Rf3 as a refutation. I did contemplate the riposte ...Be6, but it was too difficult for me to calculate. Without a tactical shot, I realized that I have a very difficult situation on my hands - how do I defend my weak back rank and f7 simultaneously? John’s suggestion of ...Be6 is definitely the most prudent. I considered it briefly, but I assessed the rook and pawn ending as worse for black (maybe it’s not that bad as John pointed out). So I settled on ...Qh6 to keep threats of ...Bxh3 in the air, while also having the ...Qd6+-...Qf8 maneuver in my back pocket to defend my back rank and f7 simultaneously. I thought this was a clever move :)
After John’s pressure fizzled out and I played ...Re4, I was happy to exchange down into a roughly equal endgame. Pawns are on both sides of the board, but I have the bishop so I thought I had the draw in hand.
47...Bb7 was my downfall. I realized ...g5 was the right idea immediately after I played this move, which rattled me. It’s such a logical move and has 3 huge benefits: 1) it prevents white’s king from advancing (most importantly); 2) it restricts white’s kingside pawns; and 3) it allows my light squared bishop to remain on the beautifully centralized e4 square.
What can I say about Bc8?? I think ...f6 will allow me to draw comfortably. I played it because I thought I was winning the h3 pawn with a skewer, but completely overlooked the fork. It makes me feel slightly better to see that John did not find the fork immediately (he considered pushing b5-b6). Knights are very tricky pieces when you are in time trouble…
Thanks again to John for these instructive games; I really learned a lot from playing and analyzing them! I hope everyone else did as well.
Hi Tom, nicely played. John was impressed. Thanks for the analysis.
Congrats to you, never easy to fight against a former teacher :)
Hell of a game man
Since he can trade his outside passed pawn for your bishop I wonder whether you should've keep your last rook on the board rather than exchanging it. Either way months later people are still impressed by your awesome play. I hope you're enjoying playing chess, you have a real knack for it.
Why am I so excited every time a John Bartholomew video comes out. No other TH-camr gives me this much joy.
Great to see these longer matches. Keep it up!
Great profile picture. One of my favorite albums of all time :)
Fascinating game. Thanks for sharing, John!
Excellent game by Tom.
Thanks!
I really enjoy the standard game videos. They are both informative and entertaining. Well Done!
I like so much this kind of videos by you. They are very instructive. Thank you.
Love these series really helping my game
the best serie for learning and improve in chess.
Marco Jiménez Thanks, Marco! By the way, is this Marco from FL? :)
nop, just Marco from Chile haha :)
Intense match Minnesota Fins. Tom played much better in game 2. Kudos to him.
That open door creeps me out 😂
one day his closet door will open very slowly, then aman will pop out scaring everyone
Hey John! You’ve mentioned in a few of your videos of the minority attack. Would you consider doing a video that explains the strategic concepts behind it? How to carry one out, or how to defend against it?
Thank you John!
Excellent game! At 31:34, you had Qxf7+ king moves, Qf8 mate. I'm late to the party so don't know if anyone else caught this. Your Rf1 prolonged the game....ya had him earlier. Don't get me wrong, I love your videos..... we are all human, and you are one of the very best on You Tube. THANK YOU for all your videos.
never mind, he had t covered with the rook on a7, lol......'m so lousy with looking at all the pieces. I am learning from you
I love how you coordinate your pieces... very instructional!
Hi John, a question: Is there anything wrong with 16. ...Qd6 for black to defend the c6 pawn instead of Bb7? I thought it could retain the option of keeping the bishop on an active diagonal and still proceed with transferring the knight to c4.
Very instructional videos to improve my chess.
invaluable knowledge
Very Instructive video. Much Appreciated
What a great match!
That was well played by Tom, thanks for sharing. Will you do a 960 15 minute game? 960 is the best.
Hey, where can I get some information about the 'minority attack' that John mentions at around 4:05? Anyone have any advice?
:D
Very good: th-cam.com/video/VRsBS7wTj0o/w-d-xo.html
What are you thinking about for so long when you play? Are you thinking a bunch of moves ahead or just what your position looks like or something..??
John, I have a question. Why can’t your opponent take you be pawn on b4 on move 18. Is it because after the knight moves you get a tempo or something.
Umair Gaming Good question, and something I definitely should have pointed out: 18...Qxb4 runs in to the discovery/double-attack 19.Nc5, yes.
John Bartholomew thank you! Totally missed it lol
I think AlphaZero in recent games came up with this idea to attack also in the king size (at the same time), with h4 and h5 ideas. h4 allows knight jumping into g5 and aimming h7. Dont if could worked here, but i think it's a new paradigm.
Was the h3 move questionable? I don’t see what that achieved other then offering Black a target.
Ehi John, why haven't you considered the option 16.Ng5 increasing the pression on the h7 square. You had a nice battery with the Queen + bishop.
Thanks A LOT for your videos! You're amazing. Cheers
Ps: The game was very cool
It would be forcing black to play a move he might want to play on his own anyway (g6 providing luft and a potential square for his bishop on f5 should the white bishop ever leave d3) and placing his knight on an undefended square that is worse than f3
32. Ne6 ... what happens? Didn't see where you talked about it.
01:09 In your Chessable repertoire you give Nge2 after ...Nbd7, ("White has waited to commit this knight for good reason! 9.♘f3 is possible, but with 9.♘ge2 White has a specific plan in mind.") but here you seem to prefer Nf3, mentioning that otherwise Black may be able to play ...Nh5 favourably - has your opinion changed as to which option is better?
to answer your immediate question, this is a different move order from chessable. on chessable, black has castled earlier and white has Qc2 in, so Nh5 Bxe7 Qxe7 Bxh7+ is available and black is down a pawn for nothing. in this game, black hasn't castled yet, so Nh5 is a real possibility. however, i dont know why Nh5 disrupts the Nge2 plan
Hi, thanks for the reply. You make a fair point that the move order in Chessable is different to this game, but the implications are maybe too nuanced for me to grasp without further study (and maybe too subtle at my level in any event).
After he stopped the minority attack, couldn't you have switched back to the other plans? For example 17. Nf4 Nb6 18. Ne5 Nc4 19. Bxc4 bxc4 20. f3 with e4 coming?
Move 16 what if Nxb5 because if pawn take bishop takes you are still protecting a4 and 2 pawns for the piece and you could move your queen to c6 or c7 next depending on his follow up but c7 attacks d5 pawn and rook on a8
What about 25...Ba6, forcing white to trade off his "good" knight vs the bishop? The resulting major piece "ending" is somewhat difficult to assess, but my first impression is that either nothing will happen or all the q-side / center pawns will get swapped off, and in both cases the result should be a draw...
awesome match! albeit a very abrupt ending... thats chess tho!
28. ... Bxh6 29. gxh6 Ra2+ 30. Qxa2 (backrank issues) was a funny line
35:15 >>why can't white swap the black king for the rook? (White rook goes to e8-check, the black king has to block.) I'm pretty new at chess, though.
Okay, it was check for black. I see now. I thought I saw a burglar back there in the kitchen.
At move 30 (37:20) my inner King's Gambit self could not have resisted playing 30.Ne6!? regardless of it being a sound "sacrifice" or not. What do you think, John?
after Bxe6 what's the compensation?
30... Bxe6 31.Rxe6 and if 31...fxe6? 32.Rxf8 Rxf8 33.Qxe6+ and White wins as after 34.Qxc6 White has two passed pawns and has gained his material back.
Nice move but Ne6 Bxe6 Rxe6 Ra1 just amounts to trades right?
True. Computer reads 0.00. But it is important that after John's move it reads +0.2. So no real difference. Though it makes sense for John to not go for a dead drawn position and rather fight for the full point.
Yeah true :) It is a pretty fun move to play I guess
34. Qb2 was better? threatening Ne6 and mate on g7?
if the queen moves
5:27 he plays the what??? defence?
30:10 - What I am Looking at is Rook a2 pinning the pawn so he can check by taking the other pawn
Ok as a barely 1200 I did not see the counter play on the f7 pawn until you mentioned it.
There goes the like and i haven't seen the video yet :))
Not a good sign if when you dont have an edge against 1700 player....
I like QED structure its pretty straightforward, but its really hard to get an advantage out of opening.
> QED structure
Queen's English declined? Is that like 1. c4, d5 2. d4, e6 3. etc.? ;-)
Me thinking of sacking on b5 like that’s a decent move then 9:27 lol
Didn't he have a mate on move 43?
He cannot move his queen to take on f7, it's pinned to the king by Black's queen.
Did you see the world cup quarter finals Sweden vs England?
#TeamScandi lost 2-0. :-(
We want more scandi games!!
Nah - John will have to start playing the English now!
In the end he'll have to go for the french;)
Getting a cold?
Hey john, this is guys!
Gg, shame about the ending
watching these vids with the dialogue makes me realize how retarded I play lol. my strategy consists of attack attack attack, no buildup and overextending.
If I've learned anything from this video, its that I need to be more indecisive when playing chess.
Can I play you? I am 1900 standard on chess.com.
Love hot tea life. Word.
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