An Italian Playing the Italian Game… Against Me 😅 | 1800 ELO Climb – Ep. 45

Описание: An Italian player picks the Italian Game against me. Of course they did. 😅

Game 1 (Italian Game – 87.7% Accuracy, Black): You can't make this up — my opponent is Italian and goes straight for the Italian Game with an aggressive pawn sacrifice for rapid development. Bold choice. The position stays tense and balanced for a long time and I have to be careful, but I never give them the attack they're looking for. Once the dust settles, that extra pawn becomes a monster passed pawn that ties White's entire army down in passive defence. Queen and Knight vs Queen and Bishop — and the passed pawn is simply unstoppable. Poetic justice.

Game 2 (Caro-Kann with White – 81.4% Accuracy): No poetry here — just a fight for survival. My opponent finds a brilliant manoeuvre to win a knight for a rook and I'm suddenly in a clearly lost endgame. Instead of giving up, I dig in and play for the draw in a rook vs knight ending with pawns only on one side of the board — one of the trickiest defensive positions in chess. Half a point never felt so satisfying.

National pride on the line in Game 1, sheer stubbornness in Game 2 — Episode 45 delivers both.

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