Colle system
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Davidjb - Santanu_Borah
- avneets13 - Santanu_Borah
- Win by capturing hanging piece
- Losing series of exchange, Bxh7 sacrifice
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Benoni
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Old Benoni, impulsive moves, no calculations
- center play, entering enemy camp alone, blundering queen, piece activity
- Santanu_Borah (1682) - chess-Army_KCI (1817)
- Santanu_Borah - g67081
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KID 2
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Repeated opening mistake in defending e5, lost by fork
- all pieces must work to prevent passed pawn
- Lost by hanging queen, don't neglect opponent's bluffs.
- Hard moves, non-exchanging quite moves preferred, kingside attack
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Catalan
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Misplaced rook, fork, passed pawn
- Not seeing positional continuation with multiple square possibilities
- Qa4+ line, play Bd7, c5, capture Bxb2, missing double attack, better knight move
- In Bg2 line, start with Bb4+, whole game shifts towards queenside, knight attack
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QGD 5
1 • Santanu_Borah •- QGD three knights, hanging a knight, winning back advantage with passed pawns
- QGD, QBN mate
- QGD, f4, QN mate
- QGD, queen attacks both sides
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Sicilian Bowdler
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Differentiating two forcing moves, losing overwhelming advantage
- Sicilian Bowdler, unnecessary complications, missing sacrificial attack
- Missed double attack on d4, tactical knight dance, poor defense to king
- Imanaja (1713) - Santanu_Borah (1700)
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Sicilian Najdorf Be2
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Missing free pawn, leaving behind backward pawns, white's central pawn storm
- Sicilian Najdorf Be2, traffic jam, Nc6?, exchange calculation, free piece
- Win by discovery
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Sicilian 4
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Early Qf3, mutual blindness, opponent missed draw
- Sicilian Bd3, lost by impulsive capture
- Sicilian Bd3, lost by passed pawn
- Sicilian e5, taking calculated risk, holding the advantage and win
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Sicilian Smith-Mora
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Playing with fianchettoed bishop, avoid d6 weak square, win by double attack
- misaleh (1711) - Santanu_Borah (1682)
- Play Bb4 instead of g7, central pawn sacrifice, defend pawn, don't give up holdi
- Winning by making fork
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QGD Marshall
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Losing central pawn, hanging a piece under double attack
- QGD, prophylaxis
- Greek Gift Sacrifice missed
- Missed trapping a bishop, faulty queen exchange, giving up free pawns
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QGD exchange
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Nxd5: Qe2-Qe4 active and attacking move, win by passed pawn
- Nxd5: Keep two bishops, mutual blindness in rook endgame drawn
- Losing massive advantage with queen for rook trade, downward spiral of mistakes
- Nxd5, prefer e5 over Ba3, defending central pawns, capturing rook for bishop
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Sicilian closed
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Closed Sicilian, attack on castled king with fianchettoed position
- Closed Sicilian, free pawn, pawn protection, exchange sacrifice, open file
- Sicilian closed, space, exchanging pieces, queen move, attack on castled king
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QGD Albin
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Prefer a3 over g3, play cautiously against d-pawn, hard queen sacrifice missed
- Nbd2-b3 befor Bg5, RBN mate missed twice
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Sicilian Najdorf Be3
1 • Santanu_Borah •- centralize pieces, win by fork and pin
- Improving pieces before exchanging, defending kingside attack, bishop-rook endga
- Avoid e5 before developing minor pieces, avoid moving to threatened square
- Don't play e5, counter attack on queenside missed
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English opening
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Santanu_Borah (1322) - Discography (1448)
- Y_Li (1884) - Santanu_Borah (1887)
- Blundering to higher rated player
- English opening, queen chase with pawn in front of king, wrong visualization
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