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Topic: Faith In Your Position
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Sometimes when you play chess you just have to have faith in your position, this is sometimes hard and forces us to take a closer look at the board. In the following game which follows in the footsteps of a game already played by a master. The game is not the important issue however, the notes and the observation may be of value to the reader and were written with the idea of providing instruction , again you must decide.
I had to ask myself this question:
How could I have allowed this player to build up such an attack without taken any steps to stop it from happening.
When I looked at this game at a certain point I said to myself, I am toast, how could I allow this position to occur?
It looked like someone just opened the floodgates and I was going to be swept away in the current (grin).
But chess is a give and take game and after reviewing my moves (which were in my opinion solid) if black has a great attack it must have cost him something, somewhere on the board, you just don't get something for nothing in this game.
And this is where the idea or plan of how to play this position started to form.
Ok black has the attack but I have an advanced c pawn, so what does this mean. The advanced c pawn has to cost him something later in the game, but will I survive the attack? My plan at this point is somewhat clear, protect the passed pawn and keep an eye on the kingside attack. If I can survive the attack I have a chance to win this game.
I am not going to annotate this game, I will allow the reader to review the game based on my notes above.
The reader can then tell me were he or she feels black started to go wrong.
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.c3 d6 5.h3 O-O 6.e3 Qe8 7.Be2 Nc6
8.O-O e5 9.Bh2 Nh5 10.Ne1 f5 11.Nd3 Nf6 12.b4 a6 13.Nd2 g5
14.a4 e4 15.Nb2 Qg6 16.b5 Ne7 17.b6 f4 18.bxc7 f3 19.gxf3 exf3
20.Bd3 Qh6 21.Qxf3 Bxh3 22.Qxb7 Bxf1 23.Nxf1 Ng4
24.Bg3 Rae8 25.Nc4 d526.Nb6 Qh3 27.Nxd5 Nc8 28.Nb4 Nxe3
29.Nxe3 Rxe3 30.Qg2 Qxg2+ 31.Kxg2 Ref3 32.Bxa6 1-0
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Was it at the 3rd when you envision the position i.e Bf4?
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at 9th.coz i think the cavalry was outof play to the defence of the king later in the middle game///if it was exchanged much more,but it was backed again at f6 w/c means he's wasting an extra tempo aside from the fact that hes playing black,,,tempo is very important in chess/// 
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I don't think faith contributes anything positive to a chessgame, ESPECIALLY correspondance chess, this is my weakest form of chess due to the fact that I have an astounding ability to calculate far ahead and do a positional assessmant of that possible future position I aim for (equal, better for me, slightly better for them (provided I think I screw up a little :D, and because the opponent can move pieces on a board this advantage has been nullified, but it's great to work on intuition as you must memorize and analyse many many games at once. And Bf4 is a great move against a semi-slav, or slav as it keeps a queen from going on c7 and aims into the opponent camp, but seems aimless against a kings indian attack, playing 3.c4 or 3.g3 would have been good. But I don't see a problem with 3.Bf4, but there are better oppertunities to play it.
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