Fritz 16 - He just wants to play!
Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you're certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with "Easy play" and "Assisted analysis" modes.
This week's games are by Morgon Mills, a 33-year-year-old Canadian, who writes:
"I'm a literature student and quasi-academic in Labrador, Canada. I've sent in two games: one a triumph from several years ago of which I've always been fond, and the other a painful defeat from this past year's Canadian Open.
I think it's an instructive loss, in that it shows how weaker players like me routinely fail to press positional advantages against stronger players by being too eager to convert into material gains. It's not only agonizing to lose this way, but infuriating! This game was especially so, not only for the multiple errors near the end that led to inevitable ignominy (being a lifelong patzer, I should be used to that by now), but also (if I may be permitted to indulge in enclosing a third, less-annotated game score) because it showed exactly the same kinds of mistakes that only two weeks before had lost me a very similar game in very similar fashion, at the Canadian Championship, once again as Black against a titled player, much stronger than myself."
We start with those two “agonising” losses. Morgon annotated them in some detail and I've added my thoughts as JS.
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The Fashionable Caro-Kann Vol.1 and 2
The Caro Kann is a very tricky opening. Black’s play is based on controlling and fighting for key light squares. It is a line which was very fashionable in late 90s and early 2000s due to the successes of greats like Karpov, Anand, Dreev etc. Recently due to strong engines lot of key developments have been made and some new lines have been introduced, while others have been refuted altogether. I have analyzed the new trends carefully and found some new ideas for Black.
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