From my game Takchess-MBuggins, I'm eyeing a future potential mate on H7. I should play g5 since this is a line clearance that allows for my queen to support the Rxh4. The Bishop can't take due to QXh7 mate. It would proceed QXpawn then rook takes Bishop.
Or I could of simply took the bishop, queen takes than Rh1 winning a queen for a bishop and a rook. Queen is pinned to the h7 square.
I played Rh1 ?! here.
Interesting enough I was very aware of the potential mate but didn't noodle out how to properly capitalize on it.
The CKEA refers to I played a Caro-Kann line called the Euwe Attack. This is sort of a Reti Gambit against the CK .
Hopefully, I become a little more proficient so I see fewer "Instead of Simply Winning the Game" annotations from Fritz.
The lesson here for me is to take some extra time when I have a strong threat and determine how to capitalize on it.
Is lazyness a common problem to you in your games or is it just an occurence blindness?
ReplyDeleteHi Tempo!
ReplyDeleteNice to see you are still going strong. Hopefully you had a good tournament.
So to answer your question: Yes and Yes.
I put down the chessboard for two years and am now getting back to it so there is an laziness and rustiness that goes with that. Also I do have occurence blindness at times with pinned pieces and calculating that they can defend when they cannot.
The other day I had a nice mating net going in a Kings Gambit Game @playchess.com. I ended up trading a piece since I thought a pinned piece was defending a square that it did not.
I look to do a simalar thing that you are doing look at where I went wrong in games.