2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 Nd4 { C61 Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation }
Nd4 breaks the principle of moving a piece twice early and moving into the opponents side without developing, so Nxd4 exd4 makes sense
4. Nxd4 exd4
5. O-O a6
Castling seems fine but not to exciting, I spent a lot of time here thinking of ways to get the pawn to no avail. If i did it again I would favor development with 5. c3 to develope the knight
6. Bc4 b5
7. Bb3 c5
8. a3 c4
9. Ba2 d5
This early pawnstorm got on my nerves because I know it was early but because of my development wasnt in a good place to capitalize, and letting the bishop get stuck in the corner with a3 is a bit slow. An idea I like is putting the bishop on the d5 attacking the rook buying a tempo, then a4 to break up the storm
10. Re1 Bb7
Re1 is kinda lame, I like that the rook aligns with the king, but dont have the manpower to support it. better is exd5,Qxd5, e3 just to break up the pawn chain
11. exd5+ Be7
12. d3 Qxd5
13. dxc4 Qxg2# { Black wins by checkmate. } 0-1
simple mate threat I missed, should have kept my eyes open to alignments. Qg4 would have solved this and threatens Qxg7
additional notes, castling is the best with the following contiuation 5.0-0 Bc5 6.d3 c6 7.Ba4 Ne7
Game 2
https://lichess.org/5ABPOYgX/bla
1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 d5
3. Nf3 c6
All I think when I play against QG is build the triangle with e6 and c6. I tend to end up crampt with this system but at least Im as crampt as I am solid
4. e3 { D11 Slav Defense: Quiet Variation } e6
5. Qa4 Bd7
Aligning by instinct seems to be a habit of mine. Here I thought that if he played a developing move It would give me time to get the queen tempo with c5 and let me grab a center pawn, this half baked idea disconected me from the fairly protected d5 pawn. I believe NBd7 is the better move because it allows the b7 pawn to remain protected while preparing a e5 or c5 push. This bishop move just made me stuck
6. c5 Be7
7. Qb3 b6
8. cxb6 Qxb6
9. Ne5 Bc8
This knight at the time felt like it was rubbing in the poor bishop, but letting him take was for the best in this. getting Nbd7 in now would have been a dream for a center push
10. Qc2 c5
11. Bd3? O-O?
Free pawn I missed with cxd4,exd4,qxd4, gotta remember my opponents blunder too
12. dxc5 Qxc5
13. Qd2 Ba6
14. O-O Bd6
15. Bxa6 Nxa6
I was happy he took my bishop, I dreamed of eventually manuevering my knight to c2 and capturing the rook
16. Nd3 Qc7
17. f4 Ne4
18. Qe2 Rfc8
19. Nf2 Nxf2
20. Kxf2 Nc5
21. Nc3 Nd7
hard for me to say how good or bad trading the knights would have been. In game the structure looked weird so I wanted to avoid it, but on second look it does give me alot of the kings space
22. Nb5 Qb6
23. b3?? Bxf4
Hoping to outpost the knight but misses the pin
24. Nd4 Bd6
Should have tried trading off the bishop for the knight here with Be4. If he defended Id begin doubling up rooks, or maybe Qb8 with the hopes of provoking g3 with dreams to fork their with the outpost knight
25. Bb2 Nf6
26. Qf3 Ne4+
27. Kg1 Rc7
28. Qg4 Rac8
29. Nxe6 fxe6
30. Qxe6+ Kh8
31. Qxd5 Bxh2+
32. Kxh2 Qh6+
33. Kg1 Ng3
34. Bxg7+ Qxg7
35. Rfd1 Rf8
36. Qd4 { White wins on time. } 1-0
and Timeout. I am really bad at settling with one plan, especially without incriment. Mindfulness and looking out for simple pawn mistakes would have helped me alot in these games.
Additional Notes: Theres a cool gambit line while dubious scores very well for black in the slav: The Winaver countgambit. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.nc3 e5! with the next 4 moves all being good for black. That move being the anti winaver gambit 4.e4, in which black should capture with 4...dxe4. definitely needs more research as a more fun way than the slav of dealing with d4.