Today I played a cool chess game. Everything went my way, but I had to keep calm and be very careful – my opponent's rating was higher than mine (1438 vs. 1365) and he had played more game online than me (11125 vs. 8103), so he (or she) was definitely not a pushover.
This time I was a move behind (I was playing black), so I had to deal with an opening move played by white. My opponent started with 1.e4 and I answered with the Caro-Kann Defence (1...c6 and 2...d5). I ALWAYS defend this way against 1.e4 because I don't have time to study opening theory and the Caro-Kann Defence comes very naturally.
The fun started after I played 6...Nh6! This move is not perfect, but it has one big advantage – it throws all the opening theory of my opponents into a trash bin. My opponent allowed me to play 7...Qh4+ and to force the exchange of Queens already on the move 10. Many chess amateurs hate to play without queens (probably because they play many short games without any time increment) and my opponent was probably rattled by the way this game started. Several moves later he lost an exchange (he lost a rook for my knight), but I had to make 26 more moves before he resigned.
The most important thing to me is the way I used my advantage – I was very calm and careful. After I created a couple of passed pawns on the queen-side I exchanged my knight for a knight and then I moved my rook to the king-side. After creating two passed pawns there I gave back the exchange (I “sacrificed” my rook for a knight) and I started pushing a passed pawn on the queen-side. My opponent resigned then. Cool game.
I was playing black, so switched the board upside-down.
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