It is a nice game. You played 8+0, but with 5+3 you would have won. You were winning almost the whole game. White played the wrong rook and missed 41 R1h6+ Kg5 42 Rxd6 Nxd6 43 Rxd7 winning for white after you gave him this opportunity with 40...Kg6? instead of the centralizing 40...Ke5.
lol what a strange game. I wonder how white has such high rating with such garbage opening. 2.a3?! Just loses a tempo. 4.h3?! 5.g3?! also losing tempi. 8.Nh2?! does nothing. Up to 10 moves white wasted half their movements doing nothing to his position. I think you should have stick with accelerated dragon ideas. Your black square bishop is too valuable to trade for a lazy knight that is doing nothing. You should have castled before pushing d5 and you would be alright.
@GuerrillaChess
I agree with you 100% that the opening was rather strange for white, and they opened poorly.
However just because someone opens strangely in some games does not mean that they do not deserve their rating.
If the oddities of this opening stopped at 2. a3 then white is still the favorite in the opening.
a3 at that point is a legitimate opening. It's referred to as the "Anti-Sicillian". There are other moves that are stronger of course, but white is still the favorite after 2. a3
You see the Sicillian is considered a "Reactive System" for black. What gives it a lot of it's strength is say White does this, so black does this, then white does this so black does that. It works rather successfully in this method making it one of the most powerful if not the most powerful responses to 1e4.
In my opinion what it does is it does something deep, like that would usually happen in a Sicillian maybe by move 10 or 15 or 20, but on move 2.
The reason why it's good is b4 is often a weak point in the sicillian as well. A lot of times a black knight hops there, or a pawn is pushed there, and in some lines a bishop can even come there to pin a knight.
What 2.a3 does is basically pass the move at a point in which black wants to see whites next move.
Some really strong GMs have used this move against other GMs with success. I have seen both Petrosian (This guy was probably the best defensive player ever, and was world champion at one point), and Mamadyarov (This guy is rated just under 2800, and one of the strongest player in the world.)
If those 2 have both played it then I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say it is not a mistake. I stuck it in stockfish as well, and stockfish said white still has a small advantage after this move, and stockfish is rated like 3300.
It's extremely uncommon, but not unsound.
That being said, the guy who played it in this game didn't play it right, and he played other strange moves and got his butt kicked only being saved by the clock.
I agree with you 100% that the opening was rather strange for white, and they opened poorly.
However just because someone opens strangely in some games does not mean that they do not deserve their rating.
If the oddities of this opening stopped at 2. a3 then white is still the favorite in the opening.
a3 at that point is a legitimate opening. It's referred to as the "Anti-Sicillian". There are other moves that are stronger of course, but white is still the favorite after 2. a3
You see the Sicillian is considered a "Reactive System" for black. What gives it a lot of it's strength is say White does this, so black does this, then white does this so black does that. It works rather successfully in this method making it one of the most powerful if not the most powerful responses to 1e4.
In my opinion what it does is it does something deep, like that would usually happen in a Sicillian maybe by move 10 or 15 or 20, but on move 2.
The reason why it's good is b4 is often a weak point in the sicillian as well. A lot of times a black knight hops there, or a pawn is pushed there, and in some lines a bishop can even come there to pin a knight.
What 2.a3 does is basically pass the move at a point in which black wants to see whites next move.
Some really strong GMs have used this move against other GMs with success. I have seen both Petrosian (This guy was probably the best defensive player ever, and was world champion at one point), and Mamadyarov (This guy is rated just under 2800, and one of the strongest player in the world.)
If those 2 have both played it then I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say it is not a mistake. I stuck it in stockfish as well, and stockfish said white still has a small advantage after this move, and stockfish is rated like 3300.
It's extremely uncommon, but not unsound.
That being said, the guy who played it in this game didn't play it right, and he played other strange moves and got his butt kicked only being saved by the clock.
@lurarose Yeah, I agree with you. 2.a3 is playable but I doubt white knows this line, he just played his opening randomly, without a long term strategy. 2.a3 may be good when you want to get your opponent out of the book, few people will know this line in depth.
2.a3 is playable, but is often played with the intention of b2-b4, generally sacrificing a pawn(i.e, 1. e4 c5 2. a3 Nc6 3.b4!? cxb4 4.axb4 Nxb4 5.d4 when white actually has plenty of compensation).
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@grapejam It is a kind of a wing gambit it seems. It is not very good. Yeah, you will find a super GM who played it 40 years ago and won. Super GMs can get away with many weak openings and still win. Even saw Nakamura owning an IM playing the "Bongcloud Opening" (1.e4 1.e5, 2.ke2?)
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