My best chess & and some nifty pawn pushes.

It's nice to win a hard fought game where you win because your combinations are a little sharper and your plans just a little deeper.

Well played!  I especially like your 31...a5, nicely done.

Although it's a good thing he didn't notice that little guy on f5 on move 22

Good game and post. I found you points very helpful. Rather than a game that was won with a quick combo, you used stragegy and tactics throughout the game to acheive your win. All your moves are made with a plan in mind - this seperates you from the wood pushers :)

I would of liked to added something to the annotation, but sadly don't have the skills to do so. However, I will say, keep up with your quality contributions.

Slaters

 Ahhh. Yes. Of course, because the queen has broken the pin on the pawn and now e x Nf3 comes into play... 

 ......oh my.......

either I'm missing something (likely) or the follow on from this gets really hairy:

22.Nxf5 Qf6  23.N3h g5  24.Rxe4!  ...?  I think white wins three pawns for the N and busts my kingside wide open.  

This is a more interesting game than the one I played!

Hello,

A while back  I checked out the line with 4...Bg4 is how Matthew Sadler handles the colle, so play it myself now too. It's main idea is preparing e5. You could have played this earlier, i.e. 10...e5 although what you played was pretty reasonable too. White's opening looks insipid to me, but lots of Q-pawn players like playing this way.

A possibility for white is 21Nxb7 Ra-b8 22 Nd6 then 22...e4 again I suppose. Maybe a bit more play for white in this line, but don't think black is ever worse in this game.

After 37Nf3 think 37...RxRch 38NXR Rb1 is pinning the knight similar to game is simplest.

Giving white the chance of 37...Re8 38QxR gave white more hope than he deserved. 

Bye John S 

I dont get why white doesnt move his rook at 28. Can someone please explain this?

 Honestly... I wasn't looking at Qg6 or much of anything beyond the fact that my N posted on d3 is _very_ strong there. A N posted like that is generally considered about as strong as a rook and many players would be quite happy to exchange a rook for that N + pawn.

But I don't think he was deliberately exchanging rook for N there at all. There's another reason he doesn't move the rook. I try to explain this in my notes, but I goofed and it isn't clear because my note at move 28 is a half-move too early...What I was trying to explain was: by leaving the rook and instead taking Bxb6 he is expecting me to play a faulty combination where his clever defense (30.Qb3+) will let him win my N and B for his Rook. But I have seen this "clever" defense and realized I have a clever answer for it that will allow me to capture his bishop along with the Rook... so I come out ahead the exchange.

If he had seen this all accurately I believe he should have moved his R to d1. That would leave my N on d3, and I would, I hope, eventually find a way to make it pay dividends.   

After, 28Re-d1 Qg6 29Qb3ch Kh7 30Qg3 then have 30...QxQ 31pxQ Ne2ch looks good. So don't think threatening mate in one with 28...Qg6 is hurting black, and the

possibility of Nd3 hasn't gone away.

Bye John S 

correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a draw????

P.S. well played 

 There's a small misunderstanding here... I thought we'd been discussing white simply playing Red1 as an answer to Nd3... that is, stepping the Rook out of the way of the N's attack. (So I didn't really see what Qg6 had to do with anything...) 

You like Qg6 prior to playing Nd3?  I dunno... for me Nd3 was where I wanted my N, and it had immediate tactical rewards.

Well the guy asks about moving rook on move 28, he probably means 29?, need to be a mindReader on this forum sometimes .  Anyway, I think Nd3 was a good response 28Bc5, and Qg6 at least worth considering for other moves.

                   Bye John S 

My short opinion about the game: (in Hungarian) My favourite moves are h6 and a6. This is a dog-ear. The Hungarian chess players call it donkey-ear. Here is not more interest. This is a worse than average game. Sorry.

I tried to send this guy this message as a note, but to my surprise he has -blocked me- from sending him messages. Here's what I had to say.  

Csaba, these remarks today about my game are nothing but mildly rude and unnecessary. If you dislike a game in this way there's no need to comment. Certainly there are many games discussed at chess.com that are even worse than mine... I doubt you comment on them all. But I suspect something else is at work here.  

Why would you comment this way on my game... I suspect it's no coincidence that just this morning I left a very brief comment on your blog.

I understand that English is not your first language. I think you misunderstood my comment.  When I said that an annotation of your was "my favorite" comment. I was not joking, or making fun of your unusual English. I was very directly saying: here's a comment I like! That's all. It was a good comment and I wanted to call attention to it. (It was a humorous way of saying, Morphy would never play this move).  I put a smiley to indicate that this comment makes me smile/laugh. I was not in any way laughing at you. Perhaps you don't realize it, but the way you wrote/translated there it was a nice, humorous and unusual way of saying a move is quite dubious. But I think you took offense, thinking that I was perhaps making fun of your English (this is my best guess) and you decided to return the favor and give some offense to me. If so... ok, we can all make mistakes, especially writing online, and in your case you are writing in a language that is not your mother-tongue.  But please in the future don't be so quick to take offense.

If on the other hand, I am wrong, and Master that you are you are in the habit telling people their games are "below average" and not interesting, etc. well... if that's really you.... please don't respond to my posts. Your time would be better spent responding to people with interesting above average games as I'm sure all yours are.

22.Nxf5?? would have been a lost of piece because of 22... Qf6 (double attack) and White had got only two pawn for the Knight (few).

No, If he plays correctly he will he get three pawns and expose my king -- and the position is very unclear -- very interesting... as I comment above, this would be a more interesting game than the one that is played. There is a brief discussion of this in some posts above between NM Tony Dal and myself.  

White would have play 22.Ne5!? and for the pawn White takes the initiative. 

That is the move I was expecting, and I agree it's better than Nh2. I don't think white gets real initiative as compensation though. I think black wins a pawn and is better. I think white's best move is Nxf5!? ... it is certainly white's boldest!