White probably played a3 to stop bishop b4 which would pin the knight to the king and from first glance it doesn’t seem like a bad idea so I’m also curious why it’s classified as a mistake
My theory on why white played pawn to a3: it's probably because white is scared of their knight getting pinned to the king (even though the bishop can just unpin the knight). As an 800-ish elo player, I see these pawn moves a lot in my games
900 elo players giving up the bishop for the knight in the opening for no reason at all also happens a lot. It annoys me so much because, just why did you give it up for no reason?
Yea I do his, I do this because normally if he pins and I unpin he takes my knight then I take his bishop and then after that the bishop can’t attack the d5 pawn
Bishop & rook checkmates are usually so nice when you can pull them off. Just yesterday I got a game where I sacrificed THE QUEEEEEEEN (I'm sorry) and when the opponent was forced to recapture, it made room for my rook to back-rank checkmate them with the help of a bishop (and a unfortunately placed f-pawn by my opponent).
Nice vid but c4, monte carlo variation is very rare to face, i have mained e6 after e4 for over a half year and only facet i 3 times. But still a very nice checkmate
😢😂❤but it is so hard to learn everything from mistake I am four years in chess now hardly able to reach 1400 in 90% game my position collapse in opening and engine evaluation become crazy till one give checkmate and I feel good at last atleast game ended 😅😅😂
0:45 We play that, because we don't want to hava a bishop on b4, so we protect that square with our pawn for perevent problems in there and in the match as well