“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics
Quietly proud of last night’s victory, I adopted The St. George Defence again tonight, this time my opponent being 1923. Once again my opponent had some idea of how to play against it but got his systems mixed up like the victim before him. This time he went for a classical big centre and undermined it himself, only to then drop a knight.
Black once again, this time the person who plays white is Dutch.
Nd2 is a sound main line where white tries to retain a classical pawn centre. I was expecting white to play c3 here, instead he plays the more aggressive c4, which works in some lines but undermines his centre in this one.
All I did was exchange of b and c-pawns with 6. …bxc4 and 7. …cxd4 respectively, and await a timely …Bb4+. Black is fine. I play the Sveshnikov Sicilian, which means …e5 may come at some point.
The position has transposed into an open Sicilian type postion, so it is here I play …e5 to lure the c4 knight away, after which Qa5 is devastating.
I squeezed in all position motives I wanted to and sensed correctly that, given the game was only a 15 min game, white would unthinkingly play 16. Nd6. Can you tell why its a blunder? It’s not very hard to guess, even on an off day for someone ELO-1234 it would take far less than 0.000001 second, which is much less time than its taken to read this rather silly sentence.
Checkmate was delivered on the 48th move…
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant
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