The game you are about to see was played in a team match called "A Live Wire Static Thematic". This thematic match is played on 14 boards between LIVE WIRE and The Night's Watch at Castle Black. I am playing on board 4 for The Night's Watch at Castle Black. The current score in the match is 15.5 - 9.5 in favor of LIVE WIRE. We have lost four games on time, which is too much, especially in a small team match such as this. LIVE WIRE has lost two games on time and the difference of even those two timeout losses is the matter of winning or losing this match, which is quite disappointing. This game does not have the usual reference games because the game started from Black's second move.
If I were to play this game again, I would probably play 4.Nc3 instead of 4.Qa4+. It is actually not so bad of a move, but I do not really like the way that the game continued after that. There are also other moves later on that I would not play now. The next move I would like to change is my 7th move, instead of e4 I would prefer to play Bg5. After the bishop is out of the pawn chain, I would continue with the plan e3, followed by either Be2 or Bd3, depending on what my opponent does and then castle short. I think that way of playing would have saved me from some of the trouble I faced in this game. In the game, my dark-squared bishop was not an active piece. It would have been much better posted on g5 earlier in the game. Not only was my bishop badly placed on b2, but my queen did not find a good square either and I had to move it a lot of times during the first 15 moves. Playing my queen to g4 on move 15 was asking for trouble as the queen seems to be low on squares. I had a plan of taking on g6 with my bishop after I had played 17.e5, but for some reason I was a bit afraid to do that after 17...Bb7 because after 18.Bxg6 I thought that my opponent would play Bxf3 and after I take back with the pawn, Iacopo could play Rg8. I missed a very important in-between move that would have made the line work. After 18.Bxg6 Bxf3, I could play 19.Bxf7+ and it would be an easy win after that. I know that I should look these kind of moves, but I am maybe a bit too lazy to go deep enough in the different possibilities. I may rely too much on my intuition, even though I know it is more often than not wrong and I would find much better moves if I just spent more time thinking about the moves. I think that the continuation starting with Bxg6 was my best and only chance during this game to take the full point.
My idea of Ne4 to c5 was not as good as I had thought, after 19...Bxc5, I end up with a backward pawn on d4 because I did not want to play dxc5 in view of Ndf4. I did end playing the losing move soon after that on move 21. I was too protective of my bishop and did not consider that Ne2+ in reply to my move Bc2 would be so strong. I shoud have, of course, just defended the bishop with Rfd1 and I would have been in an okay position.
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