As part off my homework for this week, my coach told me to play a long game against myself.
It felt weird having to do this, and I didn’t know how it will go, but I’m very happy with the results! I chose to play an opening I don’t know. I didn’t want to play main line theory, I just wanted to play chess. I went for the Queen’s Indian Defense.
I think it went ok in the opening. I didn’t make any serious mistakes. The middlegame was complex, and I went badly wrong… for both sides eventually.
Here is the game. Use the timings to switch between moves if you find my thinking boring.
1. d4 01:53 Nf6 2. Nf3 b6 3. c4 e6 4. g3 Bb4+ 04:00
5. Bd2 04:31 Be7 04:41 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Bb7 8. Nc3 05:06 d5 10:19
9. cxd5 11:19 exd5 11:57 10. Bg5 15:19 Nbd7 16:29 11. Ne5 18:14 h6 20:12 12. Bxf6 21:15 Nxf6 21:25 13. Rc1 22:37 c5 24:44 14. e3 30:17 c4 30:50 15. b3 31:22 cxb3 31:41 16. Qxb3 31:43 Rc8 36:02 17. Bh3 38:51 Rc7 41:11 18. Nb5 44:32 Rxc1 19. Rxc1 44:45 Qb8 51:53 20. Qc2 58:30
a6 59:13 21. Nc3 59:16 b5 59:49 22. Nd1 01:01:12 Bd6 01:01:38 23. Nb2 01:01:46 Bxe5 01:03:20 24. dxe5 Qxe5 0-1
Let me know what you think of this training method. Also, please improve on my play if you can. Any feedback is more than welcome!
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