MSCRRT 2021: Gypyx vs. innocentvillager (0–1)

[Gypyx]

yeah i messed up the checkmate, that sucks

and e6's goal was partly to make the rook sac, i also had a pretty decent response planned for rook takes but i forgot it lol

i think you played better in the midgame / opening, but you had a few slips that could've cost you quite a lot

[Gypyx]

i really suck at correspondance lol

[innocentvillager]

i literally like don't play correspondence ever apart from on mafiascum, i even dislike classical chess tournaments too slow for me

i treat it like a blitz game because i have no patience

Yeah i liked my position going into the early middlegame, had I spent more time calculating e6 and realizing it was a thing, i wouldn't have played a dumb slow trappy move like ...Qa4 ?? my Qb3 -> Qa2 is just too slow

basically there are lines where I can either play Rxb2 if you move your queen away from that square or Qxa3/Qxc3 if you end up moving a piece to e3 or something

...d4 was a way better move i think that i found shortly after i played Qa4, oh well that's why i don't play correspondence

[Gypyx]

yeah same, i spent 5 minutes on a move at most lol

yeah, i saw you tried to create a trap but like, it was a pretty telegraphed one as you didn't even have some "fake threat" to distract me, good idea though

d4 wasn't that bad imo? idk i might calculate it wrong but Cxd4 doesn't make stuff go wrong as you have b3 in case of c3

[innocentvillager]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3 Nf6 7. Qd3 Nc6 8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. f4 Bb7 10. e5 c5 11. Rg1 Nd5 12. Bg2 c4 13. Nxd5 Bxd5 14. Qe2 Qb6 15. Rf1 Bc5 16. c3 O-O 17. Bxd5 exd5 18. Rf3 d6 19. Be3 dxe5 20. fxe5 Rfe8 21. Bxc5 Qxc5 22. O-O-O Rab8 23. Rdf1 Rb7 24. Re3 Re6 25. Rf5 h6 26. Qf2 Reb6 27. Re2 Qa5 28. a3 d4 29. cxd4 c3 30. b3 Qxa3+

you think you're doing fine here?

[Gypyx]

oh uh, vizualized wrong lol

nah, it's trash

[innocentvillager]

yeah, i saw you tried to create a trap but like, it was a pretty telegraphed one as you didn't even have some "fake threat" to distract me, good idea though

the "fake threat" was Qb3 -> Qa2 which is a thing but just way too slow, there were at least 3 total threats which is why i thought it was a good move conceptually

but i just can't be making moves that slow like that in a position as dynamic and unbalanced as ours, even if didn't think e6 was good enough on first glance i should've thought about your alternatives for a lot longer

[Gypyx]

well you won anyways, so that's still good for you in the end