For the records, here is game 1: Link

Now the challenge for me was playing black against the computer, while annotating manually each move. I know I have very little practice with playing black. It get's me a little nervous since I like to have the initiative.

This game has a lot more blunders than the other, but for my surprise, the computer made a lot more mistakes than in the previous game. My lack of concentration here is notorious, I took more time to play and made many mistakes annotating. I think that the lesson after this is that I need more practice and many many more games!

But have fun watching this, and don't hesitate to comment on it!

 

There is a mistake in my analysis of move 22... Nf4

It is Rg6+ Kh1, Qxc5 gxf4 and white is in trouble but not so much trouble as I thought. 

Good game!

It's a good quality to set positional goals and pursue them -- like control of e5. But like a good businessperson, a chessplayer is always ready to trade the what they have for something more valuable. When your opponent played 8. g3, you rejected 8. ... Bxf4. True, it strengthens white's hold on e5. But consider what you get in return. Tripled and isolated (and thus weak) pawns on the f-file. An isolated pawn on the h-file. And you take away white's two bishops. Follow up with Nf5! and white is essentially busted. He will spend the rest of the game covering up his many weak points -- he's never going to have time to use the e5 post.

Hey, thanks! That is a valuable comment! You are right about the triple pawns, I will have to take that into consideration on my future games.

Then I don't understand Nf5!, do you mean Ne7 to f5? And taking away the two bishops would be only after black's blunder b3? Or is there another way?

nice game! iv never tried playing him as black. one thing i noticed was that on move 37 ("i have mate in two,so i forget about the bishop"), it wasnt only a bishop take he was threatening, but a forced mate in 4, which, fortunately, both of you overlooked ;-)

or not... lol i just realized if he blocks with the rook thers no checkmate...

:) Complicated game, isn't it? Or is it ourselves?

hehe 

34.h6 is wrong.Instead u should have played 34.Re1+ and the only move for white is to recapture with rook 35.Rxe1.Then u recapture with 35.Qxe1. Only space for King is 36.Kh2 or 36.Kg2 Then u capture Rook with 36.Qxa5

ericg65 wrote: 34.h6 is wrong.Instead u should have played 34.Re1+ and the only move for white is to recapture with rook 35.Rxe1.Then u recapture with 35.Qxe1. Only space for King is 36.Kh2 or 36.Kg2 Then u capture Rook with 36.Qxa5

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 An easy checkmate is better than a rook.