A quick question Akuni:

In the game "?? v Da Pharoah" you claim that 18.Bxh6 was neccessary. Now this may be true, but you didn't give a reason, and I personally cannot see why Bxh6 was tactically or possitionally neccessary. Which all begs the question: why is 18.Bxh6 a critical move?

Blackadder (Nice name btw, I love rowan atkinson) did you use the move list to see the variation included? If that doesn't make it clear than I can post some more analysis.

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Akuni, these are wonderful. Thank you for doing this. I will post a game of mine in a couple of days, I just gotta figure out which one I want to be looked-over the most.

t/y for your offer, i'll be submitting you a game for analysis from the 3 i currently have going, then maybe we can talk, i've been thinking of getting an online tutor...this is why chess.com is so cool.......

Thanks for the analysis, Akuni.

The one thing I wonder, though, is it not worth getting 2 of his kingside Pawns (in front of his castled King) for the Knight, when the alternative is having a poor and locked in Bishop?

If Qf6 would be played (u missed it a the whole time) then it would be ok, even though u have to relie on your opponent.

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Here's my game. Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I didn't realise there were variation provided.

but now that I have I still have a question:

in your variation, does black recapture with the right pawn?

instead of 21.gxh5 why not exg5? (with the dual intention of playing h5 and g5)

the game might continue: Rbc8 Rd2 Qe7? (how else can black defend?) h5 gxf5 g5 Ne8 g6 fxg6 hxg6 Qg7 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxg7+ Nxg7 Rxd6  (at this point white is a pawn up with more active peices.)

 This has gotten to be too much for me, so I've given it to the comp, and it's too much for IT too! King (Chessmaster Program) is sure of two things. One, that after Ne8, Black can survive, and that after Bd7 Black loses. It can't actually, starting from the position after Qxh6, determine whether exf5 or gxf5 is better conclusively. If you move it ahead a bit the score it gives both exf5 and gxf5 rises, so Ne8 a few moves beforehand would be better.

lol, you have hundreds of posts and you can only find 3

how much approximatley will your chess lessons cost.

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Hi Akuni, here's one of my turn-based games on chess.com. I've added some annotations based on my own thoughts during the game, if that helps with your analysis. Thank you.

Unfortunately, it'll be a few days before I can get to some of your games, something has happened to the analysis function, and it's not working.

On another note, lessons will be 15$/hour.