Posted on October 4th, 2010 by Richard
I lost my last OTB game last week. I was black and white played 1.d4.
My main reply is 1….e6 and from then on there are a myriad of possibilities of openings depending on the next moves. I have had some coaching recently in the English opening but have not yet played it enough to know the variations.
In this game I lost and when I analysed the game with the computer engine (Crafty) it told me the opening was the Catalan BogoIndian.
The what???
The Catalan BogoIndian! (ever heard of it-ever played it?!).
Well I lost the game-I kept losing position gradually & somewhat lost interest in the game. Eventually I made a really poor move but I wasn’t really interested in playing by then!
Why don’t White players just stick to 1.e4? It would make life so much easier & a whole lot more fun! 1.d4 and 1.c4 should be banned (along with everything else except 1.e4!)!!
Now I am going to check out the Catalan BogoIndian defence & find out how this opening should be played!
Here is the game:
[pgn height=500 initialHalfmove=16 autoplaymode=none][Event “CambsCC vs BSECC”]
[Site “Cambs”]
[Date “2010.09.30”]
[Round “Board4”]
[White “AN”]
[Black “ME”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “0”]
[BlackElo “0”]
[ECO “A40 Catalan BogoIndian”]
[TimeControl “0”]
1. d4 e6{crafty engine analysis} 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. e4 Bb4 5. Bg5 e5 6. d5 Nd4 7. Ne2 Nxe2 8.
Bxe2 O-O 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 d6 11. f4 Re8 12. Bd3 h6 13. fxe5 hxg5 14. exf6
gxf6 15. Qf3 Kg7 16. Rf2 g4 17. Qf4 f5 18. exf5 Qf6 19. Qxg4+ Kf8 20. Qd4 Re5
21. c5 Bxf5 $2 {Crafty (score 6.22 at depth 8) thinks this is not a good
move-Crafty suggests: 21. … dxc5 22. Qxc5+ Qd6 23. Qd4 Qxd5 24. Qh4 b5
25. f6 Rh5 26. Qg3 Bd7 $18 (score 2.32 at depth 10)} 22. Bxf5 dxc5 23.
Qxc5+ Qe7 24. Qxe7+ Rxe7 25. Kf1 Kg7 26. Re1 Rxe1+ 27. Kxe1 Re8+ 28. Re2
Rxe2+ 29. Kxe2 Kf6 30. Be4 Ke5 31. Ke3 f5 32. Bf3 {Black resigns} 1-0
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