Game of the Week
Managing the clock in a complex middlegame
Welcome back to game of the week! As always, these are the ground rules:
Game of the Week is not a brilliancy prize. In fact, you’re more likely to have your game chosen if you share a loss. These often have more to teach us than our wins.
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This week’s game comes from Carl Labanz. Carl got the upper hand against his much higher rated opponent, but the middlegame took some unexpected twists and turns, and at some point the clock became a factor.
On with the game!
Thanks for the review. I'll make Be5 into a flashcard. It was one of my candidate moves, but for very much the wrong reasons. Lots of good advice here. I didn't think about the value of 12...Na5 to target hanging pawns. Just to go after the bishop. But I would have had the same pressure on the c-file that I had intended, but without the weakening of the king. Maybe that's another flashcard.