Here is a game I played recently. I was Black and played the Kings Indian Defense. In the game I make two inaccurate moves that did not get punished, but were good to learn from. I was able to sacrifice a knight and finish the game with a nice attack!
Rating 1770 (too much late night blitz)
Puzzle Rush Score 33
Daily Study It was a World Chess Championship rest day today, so it was back to the books! I had a look over a Fischer game. The game was an epic Kings Indian Defense.
Rating 1840
Puzzle Rush Score 28
Daily Study Today I played two rapid games and got my highest win on chess.com beating an opponent rated 2037. My opponent opened with 1.c4 which I don’t see too often, but have played against a number of times. The English positions tend to be quite solid. I know that there is the symmetrical variation and there are times when it can transpose into Queens Gambit territory. I played the King’s Indian Defense as I assumed my opponent wanted something positional and I wanted to create tactical chances. It was the right opening choice against this opponent and I managed to create complications and get a really nice position, winning time on the clock. I had calculated everything out and was feeling confident and then when I got to a moment that was winning I forgot to play the move I had prepared five moves earlier and missed my chance to gain a clear advantage. I then went on to blunder a piece and had a clearly losing position, but ended up winning due to the time advantage I had accrued. Here is the game.
This was a fairly straight forward game, but there were a few ideas in the opening that I found instructive.