A Long Haitus
Tuesday night was my first time back to the club in 2 1/2 years! As I self-predicted back then, the realities surrounding Covid for me were far, far greater than for example when I got the virus itself. I got Covid back to back so had it for a month, and never took a day off work since I worked from home, it was more of a nuisance than anything else. Round 1 10.Bg5 Okay, I realized that I had left theory here, and played this move since Nd2 drops a pawn and at least I came up with an aggressive response for defending my center pawns, not knowing any theoretical move for the Arch-angelsk variation at this point. I always thought I'd just figure something out at the board if I got this variation, then this happened! 11.Bd5 I did think about playing h3 here, which probably makes more sense, as it allows the Bg5 to retreat to ..h4, instead of trading it on f6, as played in the game. 13.BxNf6. I was afraid of the variation 13.Bh5 g5, 14.Bg3 g4, 15.Nh4. He said he would have tr