Wild game! Is gxf3 a usual strategy in this line?

To Tempo -
No, actually I misplayed the opening here. That bishop should not have been allowed to g4. But I played gxf3 because of the following reasons:

1. Qxg3 loses a pawn without compensation

2. Its true that my kingside will be a natural target for an attack, with that tempting
open g-file - but without blacks light-squared bishop, he would be unable to exploit it.
The game confirms this assessment. It was very hard to breach my position without that bishop. For practical purposes - the weakness proved to be illusional.

3. I can use the g-file for myself. I was intending to double rooks there and attempt to storm blacks position. You would note there are some parts of the game where I had rook on g2, or g3. That was me trying to double. Its too bad, black prevented that plan.

I actually saw some games like that. Where white, doubled rooks on an open g-file, then in conjunction with the queen, and the light-squared bishop (I have the light-squared bishop too) developed a strong attack. I was hoping for a similar development here.

4. Plan number 2 - was to establish a broad pawn center. I was trying to put a pawns of d4, e4, and f4 - then roll it over blacks position - this also didnt happen in the game. But it was plan B at that time.

Good game!

I like to play Ruy Lopez myself and usually if black plays early Bg4 before castling it is a mistake.

a) I simply play d3 instead of d4 protecting the e-pawn.
b) Then the usual knight move Nb1-d2
c) Play h3 without losing a tempo, black must either exhange bishop for knight or withdraw bishop (after Nd2-f1-g3)


- bahus

To Harmless:

> nezha, I don't think you understand. what does the light squared bishop have to do w/ it?

Try this one - replace one of your knights with a light squared bishop. I think, the mating attack you are looking for will magically appear then.

In my experience - A light-squared bishop is a very powerfull piece in launching kingside attacks

-> I think tarrasch said something like - without the light-squared bishop, he cant think of any attacks.

> my main strategic blunder was not trading for it (I had quite a few opportunities).
wow - I actually was thinking of trading this piece. Its good I didnt do it then.

> what was your plan this game anyway?
Apart from the two plans I outlined above - my most primitive setup was to simply acauire space and try to ground you down. That's it. I wasnt planning on mating attacks or opening files, etc.. It was just to hem your pieces in, then maintain the tension as long as possible - In hopes that you would do something to alleviate that pressure - (like maybe sacrifice something?) only then do I form an active plan.

This is my new "No hurry - Waiting policy" plan. I find it works suprisingly. But now that you know my secret - I'd have to watch out on our next game then =>

Sweet game. How did you manage to get that the java applet on your blog? That would make life absolutely great for me when showing my games.

To Harmless

Hmm - my understanding may be flawed. Good for me you didnt take advantage =>

To PMD
I used an iframe tag. The details is in alter goniffs blog on
http://altergoniff.blogspot.com/ on may 20 - "The Quick&Dirty Guide to Using LT-PGN-Viewer". But basically, you just save the game in HTML format, then put the URL link inside an iframe command like so -

<iframe name="mygame" scrolling="no" src="http://www.myurl.com/mygame.html" height="380" width="100%"></iframe">

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