Annotated Chess Game 14125774

I wanted to double black's pawns with the intention of not allowing them to be undoubled

? I was glad to see the opportunity to in double my pawns and taking a central pawn

Had reservations about this. I felt I needed to support my d pawn and develop my bishop, but felt I was offering black a way to undoubled pawns.

Gaining more control of the center with tempo.

With queens off the board, losing castling rights is less of an issue I figured.

Best square for king safety.

This served two purposes, to open a square for my knight and to push a passed pawn

Taking away a square from black's knight

Putting my knight on the good square I pushed the pawn to get

I think I was planning on moving my a rook to the b file, then play knight a5 expecting b6 then knight c6

I need to keep this pawn and undoubling black's pawns is bad for me

Looks like I cannot help the undoubling, but I can support my chain

I will recapture with my king if knight takes bishop.

Now I can play Nc5 a more central square attacking two of blacks pawns

I plan to win the exchange if black moves his rook to block the pawn

King supports both pawns, need my knight where it is

That was unexpected

With only one rook on the file now I can push the pawn and freeing the king of protecting that pawn

! I get a pawn creating two isolated pawns, really helps in the end game

This is the move I had two plans for and took the bird in the hand. I figured winning a bishop for a pawn would be better than winning the exchange giving up a pawn. My other idea was to move my knight to a5 by c3 bit figured it would be too slow. Now I think rook b6 is probably best.

More forcing than with taking with the knight, besides I am up a piece time to take pieces off the board

Cannot save my pawn, so might as well take one.

Protecting my pawns from his rook

Need a square for my knight after I play Nd5

Once again setting up a rook trap