Annotation for my earlier game (B.Rajashekar Vs Chess Master 10th Edition)

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2005.10.10"]
[Round "?"]
[White "B.Rajashekar"]
[Black "Chessmaster"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann: Steinitz variation"]
[ECO "B17"]
[TimeControl "3600"]

1. e4 c6
{Chess Master opts for the Caro Kann Defense against my Kings pawn opening.}

2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7
{Other alternate for black are to is to try. Nd7 ensures that the Black's pawn structure is not ruptured after playing Ngf6, Nxf6 and now black can capture back the knight with the knight on
d7 instead of the pawn.}

5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6
{This is what the move 4..Nd7 ment for. Now take you time here and think what would you play here as white.}

7. Bf4
{why Bf4? Hum.. why not develop the other bishop and enable short castle? Lets see why?

First of all white pieces are more free to move compared to the black pieces as it still needs to develop its king side. It's dark square bishop is still locked in by it own pawns so the in coming moves it is obvious that black has to play e6 followed by Bd6 or Bb4. But playing e6
right way is bad for black as it blocks its light square bishop so it has to move its bishop either to f5 or g4 square pinning my knight.So by playing Bf4 white forces black to move its light square bishop to either g4 or f5 and then oppose it with its own light square bishop by playing either Bd3 or Be2.

Secondly white with its bishop on f4 controls the d6 square the blacks
bishop might come. If black places its bishop on b4 then white can simply
respond with c3 driving back the bishop.}

7... Bg4
{Almost forced.}

8. Be2
{and now its time to develop the bishop. White no longer has to worry about the pin.}

8... e6
{as planned.Now what will white play? Yes as planned.}

9. c3
{Forcing black to play Bd6.}

9... Bd6
{Okay white has completed its first phase of plan. Now its time to see further about how to develop.}

10. Bxd6 {Forced.}

10...Qxd6
{Now here come a point again where white has to decide whether to castle or hold back.Here at this point wanted to see which way black would castle and make my choice of castling. I did not like to give chess master a chance to plan any attack on my king.I followed a simple rule in these kinds of games(Semi-Open games) where it is always good to hold back your castle and see
which way your opponent goes or i may not castle at all. So i forced black to tell me which way it will go by playing}

11. Ne5 Bxe2 12. Qxe2
{Now white is forced to tell which way it would go.}

12... O-O 13. O-O
{Now i can castle safely.}

13... c5
{Attacking the strong pawn chain in the center.}

14. Rad1
{Taking the center. Planning to double up rooks if possible.}

14... Rfd8
{Activate the rook.}

15. dxc5 Qxc5
{Now take a movement here. What would white play here?.}

16. c4

{Good Move by white. This is the key move in the game. Actually there are two things mainly that make this move the best move possible.If we look at the position. You'll see that Black's knight is planning to occupy the d5 square. If white can some how prevent it from coming there
then no good squares for the knight to occupy except moving backwards. Secondly
whites queen may plan to attack my pawn on a1 by moving his queen to a5 and if
white plays a2 with pawn still on c3 the pawn structure is somewhat weekend.}

16... Qa5 17. b3
{Now its Black's turn to come up with a plan or rather reveal its plan.White is forcing black to trade his rook so the white can control the central file.}

17... h6
{This move is a kind of hold move which eliminates the possible back rank threat and also rejects whites challenge of trade.}

18. h3
{Does the same thing as black. Leaving black with no choice but to trade.}

18... Rxd1 19. Rxd1 Rd8 20. Rxd8+ Qxd8
{Now pause for a while here. All the rooks are off the board and both sides are left with a minor piece and a queen.It is interesting to note that white was earlier trying to control the
central file but gave it back to black. Why? Should white challenge the Black's
queen with his queen. Is that it? If we look at the position more carefully you
see that white in controlling the d file directly but controlling it from e -
file. The only square that black queen can occupy are d6 and d4.}

21. g3 Qd4 22. Kg2 Qe4+ 23. Qxe4 Nxe4 24. f3 Nc3
{Chess Master makes a blunder here.The knight is too far inside White's territory and there is no way to get out of there safely. And you can see how white finishes the game.}

25. a4 f6 26. Nd3 Kf7 27. Kf2 e5 28. Ke3 Nb1 29. Nc1 e4 30. Kxe4 Nd2+ 31. Ke3 Nf1+ 32. Kf2 Nd2 33. Ke2 Nb1 34. Kd3 h5 35. Kc2 Na3+ 36. Kb2 Nxc4+ 37. bxc4 h4 38. g4 Ke7
39. Kc3 Ke6 40. Kd4 Kd6 41. Nd3 Kc6 42. c5 a6 43. Nb4+ Kc7 44. a5 Kc8 45. Kd5 Kd7
46. c6+ bxc6+ 47. Nxc6 Kc7 48. Nd4 Kd7 49. Ne6 f5 50. Nc5+ Ke7 51. Ke5 fxg4 52.
fxg4 Kd8 53. Nxa6 Kd7 54. Nc5+ Kc6 55. a6 Kb6 56. g5 Ka7 57. g6 Ka8 58. Ke6 Ka7
59. Kf7 Kb8 60. Kxg7 Kc7 61. Kf7 Kc6 62. g7 Kxc5 63. g8=Q Kb6 64. Qc8 Kb5 65.
a7 Kb4 66. a8=Q Kb3 67. Qab7+ Ka2 68. Qca8# 1-0