Chess Analysis Tips: GM Benjamin Bok, lesson #2

Join GM Benjamin Bok as he reviews and analyzes one of his games from the recent FIDE online olympiad.

This is a great example of how Decode Game explains the majority of positions, rerquiring the Deep Decode only on very specific positions.

Here’s the game’s PGN which you can copy-paste into the Import function on DecodeChess:

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. O-O a6 5. Bd3 Ngf6 6. Re1 e6 7. c3 Be7 8. Bc2 b5 9. d4 Bb7 10. a4 cxd4 11. cxd4 O-O 12. Bd2 Qb6 13. a5 Qc7 14. Nc3 Rac8 15. Bd3 e5 16. Qe2 exd4 17. Nxd4 Rfe8 18. Qe3 Bf8 19. Qg3 Nc5 20. Nf5 Bxe4 21. Nxe4 Nfxe4 22. Bxe4 Nxe4 23. Qd3 Nxd2 24. Qxd2 Rxe1+ 25. Rxe1 Qc2 26. Qg5 g6 27. Ne3 Qd2 28. Rf1 Qxb2 29. Nd5 Qe5 30. Nf6+ Kg7 31. Qg4 Rc4 32. Qc8 Rxc8 0-1