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I was starting to worry you'd fallen off a cliff, Mike!

That knight/pawn combo was a major pain. Had to be SO careful. Almost any aggression from me woulda handed you victory, which normally I would have done. Finally learning that aggression doesn't pay too well against you. :P The last few moves have been predictable though... I think I weathered the storm.

SO glad to get rid of that bishop. Was really annoying, lol.

I definitely agree on the trading bishop for knight. I was already thinking about Ba6 at that point, because I took out your queenside control with that trade. And I didn't care about my central pawn inferiority because by committing to that trade early, I got to castle and rid myself of the weakness caused by that inferiority.

I think my down fall was putting queen on d3, as know that I think about it, even though I made that bad move with my pawn, your bishop to A6 move would have probably ruined my castling. So, it all worked out the same, but I lost a pawn on top of that. My plan was to attack your queen file pawn with that pawn to gain pawn strength in the middle, but I think your bishop for knight trade was an excellent decision.

Not likely, lol. I got one of my wisdom teeth out today, and I naturally go to bed around 3 am. If you're only playing one more move, though, I better use the notes function as I have a vague but quite long term attack plan I'm working on, lol. I need to (very carefully, of course) take advantage of my extra pawn and your broken castle. At some later point I'm going to study this game. Usually your queen opening games frustrate me early, but something I did here actually gave me counterplay very early on, and I'm not exactly sure what it was, but I robbed you of initiative quickly with a development I'm not that comfortable with.

smoke time, and then I'll make 1 more move if you haven't gone to bed already.

I moved it to prepare for your bishop to B7...guess it was a two sided blade.

And ahhhh, I wondered why you gave me that. The plan the whole time was Ba6, actually. The pawn move up just gave me a free pawn, but I had quite a bit to gain from the move even without it.

Hmm. I don't know these principles. :(

that move with your bishop was stealthy....for some reason the only thing I was looking at was bishop to B7. Nicely done, I have decided to sacrafice that pawn:(

no plan really, just trying to stick with the principles.

Odd move. Curious where you're going with this.