Chess Game Analysis of Herby vs Sawkito and LightEye vs Jaki01

Hello everyone, especially to the members of the #HiveChess Community! I'm releasing another post/video with some game analysis. I chose two games played in the recent community tournaments during the last two weeks. As you know, this type of analysis is intended to give some coaching to our players and offer training opportunities. Remember that the analysis of our games is absolutely important if we really want to improve and should not be disregarded.

The games chosen are Hive account@schamangerbert vs Hive account@sawko (AKA Herby and sawkito respectively on Lichess) played during the round 1 of the current season and Hive account@lighteye vs Hive account@jaki01 (AKA lighteye and jaki01 respectively on Lichess) from round 2, current season.

I selected these games on purpose because I want to help our amateur players when facing a strong opponent. So with some little preparation we can beat them and learn a few things in the process.

I think the video is self-explanatory, so I hope you enjoy watching it. Don't forget to sharing the post and the video and let me know what you think in the comments.

Here are PGNs:

Game 1:

[Event "Hivechess Tournament Round 1 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/LzGcltfR"]
[Date "2021.09.17"]
[White "HerbyW"]
[Black "sawkito"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2021.09.17"]
[UTCTime "19:48:46"]
[WhiteElo "1764"]
[BlackElo "2471"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+0"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+0"]
[BlackTitle "CM"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "300+1"]
[ECO "A57"]
[Opening "Benko Gambit"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]


1. d4 c5 2. d5 Nf6 3. c4 b5 4. e3 bxc4 5. Bxc4 d6 6. Nf3 g6
7. O-O Bg7 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Bd2 Ba6 10. Bxa6 Nxa6 11. Qe2 Nc7
12. Nb5 Nxb5 13. Qxb5 Nxd5 14. Qb3 Nf6 15. Bc3 Rb8 16. Qc2 Qb6
17. b3 e5 18. Nd2 Nd5 19. Nc4 Qc6 20. Rad1 Rbd8 21. e4 Nxc3
22. Qxc3 Qxe4 23. Nxd6 Qc6 24. Nc4 e4 25. Qe3 Rd4 26. Rxd4 cxd4
27. Qd2 Re8 28. Rd1 e3 29. fxe3 dxe3 30. Nxe3 Bh6 31. Re1 Qc5
32. Kf2 Bg5 33. g3 Re6 34. h4 Rd6 35. Qc2 Bxe3+ 36. Rxe3 Qxc2+
37. Re2 Rf6+ 38. Ke1 Qc1# 0-1

Game 2:

[Event "Hivechess Tournament Round 2 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/jQI2T3vu"]
[Date "2021.09.24"]
[White "lighteye"]
[Black "jaki01"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2021.09.24"]
[UTCTime "19:37:48"]
[WhiteElo "1741"]
[BlackElo "2368"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-1"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+0"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "240+1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[Opening "Nimzowitsch Defense: Kennedy Variation, Linksspringer Variation"]
[Termination "Normal"]


1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5 3. d5 Nce7 4. c4 Ng6 5. Nf3 Nf6
6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Bd3 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 d6 9. h3 O-O 10. Bg5 b6
11. h4 h6 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. h5 Nh8 14. Nh4 Qg5 15. Qf3 Bg4
16. Qf5 Bxf5 0-1

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