What a game this was! As a low-rated player, getting to actually play such a perfect game was an incredible feeling.
Nice!
Nice game. Fun pawn advance. Good job.
White didn't notice about which piece to exchange and which to keep on board, which was nicely exploited by black.
Good game. Good bishop versus bad bishop. White must regret trading his good bishop for black's bad bishop with 5 Ne5.
Black's "Bad" bishop was outside of his pawn-chain and exchanging those bishops didn't hurt White as much as it "theoretically" seems, I believe. In other words, it is not the "classically bad" bishop which finds itself behind its own pawn-chain. After all, the very popular London is predicated on a quick Bf4, developed outside its pawn-chain and Black often goes after this "Bad" Bishop very soon in the game with Bd6 or Nh5.
From my admittedly relatively inexperienced perspective, White's real problems were due to the fact that he failed to open up the game with the liberating e4 and his remaining Bishop was therefore totally passive, stuck behind that restricting pawn chain. But that is a common problem with that type of Torre pawn-structure whose players generally know how to overcome it, sooner rather than later. dxc5 would also have given his bishop range of action and mobility but White was fixated on his Torre pawn structure and failed to understand the consequences of that fixation, especially since he no longer had his lsb. That "failure to understand" was really underscored by his horrendous 18.Bb2 when the real problem was kicking Black's Ne4 out of that square or off the board so White could play the liberating e4 after which he would have had some counterplay.
Having said that, congratulations on your victory and a game well-played, @Musicrafter12 !
From my admittedly relatively inexperienced perspective, White's real problems were due to the fact that he failed to open up the game with the liberating e4 and his remaining Bishop was therefore totally passive, stuck behind that restricting pawn chain. But that is a common problem with that type of Torre pawn-structure whose players generally know how to overcome it, sooner rather than later. dxc5 would also have given his bishop range of action and mobility but White was fixated on his Torre pawn structure and failed to understand the consequences of that fixation, especially since he no longer had his lsb. That "failure to understand" was really underscored by his horrendous 18.Bb2 when the real problem was kicking Black's Ne4 out of that square or off the board so White could play the liberating e4 after which he would have had some counterplay.
Having said that, congratulations on your victory and a game well-played, @Musicrafter12 !
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