This was one of my first games here. (and my first post) I've made some mistakes in the game which noticed. Why did he retire? I've looked over the final position and I dont think that I have such a huge advantage. Am I missing something?

 

You have a good positional advantage, as Black's defense is fragmented.  Your pieces can all be activated in turn, but, because of your opponent's fragile defence requires the use of most of his pieces, you can simply attack his tenuous position.

mabe he isnt a frequent user of chess.com

 

Unbeliever, you gotta be kidding me. It is going to take white a long time to do anything productive with his bishop and consequently the rook that is stuck behind it. There is not really a good  reason to resign based on the position. Perhaps your opponent just didn't feel like playing any more.

ok

for you, 22. g3 was bad, g4 would be better!! to avoid Qh5+

or get ready for .. Kxg4 23.. Qxg4 Qxg4 24..fxg4 

 

for 27. Qb5

My suggestion is Qd8 

 

finally,   I dont agree with his resignation, that was stupid ( he can do a lot of things)

 

 

 

"or why i didnt here. i had a material advantage, and the queens would be gone"

This is your coment afther 25...move

You didn't have a material advantage.He had 2 pieces againts 1 rook.

2 pieces are stronger than rook. 

Black should play.In this position afther move 27...c6 black has active game and better position.Your bishop on f1 is closed.Your rook on h1 is also weak piece. Black bishop is strong piece.His rook is great pressure on your King's side.Black next good move would be 28...Qd5 now you must play 29.h3 because of (29...Nxg4) you can't play fxg4 because of check.Because of that 29.h3 would be necessary.Resign was big mistake.

8.cxd5  black could play 8...Bxf2+ 9.Ke1 Qxc2+ 10.Kxc2 Bxh3 11.Nxh3 Bb6

I agree with Loomis. While black's king is rather open, white isn't in a position to do anything about it. Black has a ton of attacking chances as long as he mobilizes all his pieces towards the kingside. He has a rook, bishop, pawn, knight, and queen aiming for your king. White definitely should have lost this game.

Check the guys other games. It could be that he simply doesn't want to play here anymore and resigned on all of his games.

I must say I couldn't fathom some of the moves by both sides. Exchanging Qs when you were a pawn up seemed to be the best.

You made him retire from chess? You're good...

fischer wrote: You made him retire from chess? You're good...

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Loomis wrote: Unbeliever, you gotta be kidding me. It is going to take white a long time to do anything productive with his bishop and consequently the rook that is stuck behind it. There is not really a good  reason to resign based on the position. Perhaps your opponent just didn't feel like playing any more

I apoligize, was fairly tired when I wrote that :(.   My thought was to use the King to Black's rook, but I somehow missed the discovered Check on the King if the rook moves.  I am not sure how I missed that, thank you for correcting my reasoning.

I didnt mean "retire," i meant resign. had a few things on my mind when writing that.

Thanks for the input. i did not even think about most of the positions mentioned. looks like i have a lot more to learn.

 and why does the board start at move 5. the move list shows the entire game?

fischer wrote: You made him retire from chess? You're good...

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 Hahaha, that's hilarious