This was only a 10-minute game, but move eight and the mate were pretty.

Nice!

The worse feeling in chess for me is making moves like your opponent's 7th. Attacking a piece to get it to move when it's threatening to go somewhere crushing. How useless do I feel when I make moves like that.

Nice game! :-)

Interesting,even if it seemed to me that you played 1min game!

ouch, nice mate

What a unique mate.  kudos!

Nice!

Congratulations in your win you deserve it and played well.

I will not say the same thing about black's moves, by not giving proper consideration to the development of her/his pieces, black lost about 5 tempi, almost the equivalent of 2 pawns.

The early queen promenade on the board was the beginning of the end.

Many beginners over estimate the power of the queen in the opening, as the queen can be chased to the advantage of the opponent by simply developping pieces and preparing for castling or an attack.

I personally very seldom and cautiously get my queen out in the first moves of the game.

You are a 2000+ player, I am curious as to what your opponent's rating was, can you tell us? 

The reason I would to know is to try to understand why your opponent played 3...Qb6. I will learn something from this I think, and if I do I will post my comments right here in your post. 

I have never played 3...Qb6 and fail to see the purpose of the move.

Thanking you in advance for your reply.

Remains a nice game on your part as you played efficiently to mate in 16 moves, not an easy task.

paul211> You are a 2000+ player, I am curious as to what your opponent's rating

My 10-minute blitz rating is 1550 and his is 1250.

paul211> I have never played 3...Qb6 and fail to see the purpose of the move.

2...Qb6?! is worse than the common 2...Nc6. Both moves eye the central square d4. A key difference is 2...Qb6?! eyes b2, but that square's not weak, and his queen's more vulnerable now and doesn't support the thematic ...d7-d5.

3.Nc3 is a developing move that also threatens Nd5 at some point, which prompted my opponent to play 3...e6. Unfortunately, ...e6 does not help him develop his dark-squared bishop (nor quite prepare ...d7-d5).

4.g3 - Developing. I wanted Black to spend a tempo doing something with his dark-squared bishop before I played d2-d4, but Rybka notices the immediate 4.d4! cxd4 5.Qxd4! Qxd4 6.Nxd4 a6 7.e4 is stronger. I had only considered 5.Nxd4.

4...Qb4? - A silly one-move threat that helps me develop.

6.Nb5!? Qa5 7.Bb2 a6? 8.Nd6+ - I was expecting him to see the tactic now and play 8...Ke7 9.Nxc8+ Rxc8, when I have a smaller advantage...

8...Bxd6?? 9.Bxg7 Nb4 - ...but this made for a prettier game. :)

9.Bxg7 Nb4 - 9...Be5 is met by 10.Nxe5.

10.Bxh8 Nxa2?? - I suppose he was desperate, and maybe hoping for 11.Qc2 Nb4 12.Rxa5 Nxc2+ 13.Kd1 when things are closer.

11.Qb1 Nc3 12.Bxc3 13.Ba5 - An immediate 13.Qxh7 also works, but this deprives my opponent's queen any hope of counterplay or even of defending his king.

14.Qxh7 Nf6 15.Qh8+ Ke7 - Other moves lose even more material.

16.Bd8# - Reti's Mate. Simple and pretty. :)

Very nice game!

Very good game shame i cant play like that

post #10, by likesforests

Thank you for the analysis of your game.

You are right on the second move purpose to aim at the d4 square, however 2...Nc6 also covers the e5 square, thus a better move.

At move 4, black still had the opportunity to develop knight to c6 or f6, as still early in the game, covering d5 and e5 move in preparation of moving pawns at the appropriate time and challenge the control of the center.

I liked your move 5.b3, the way black is developping you expand on your queen side, gaining more space an important move.

Black move 5...Nc6 is a good move taking option on e5, I might have opted for 5...Nf6

Black played the only move playable at move 6....Qa5

Black move 7...a6 is to no avail still time to develop the knight in f6.

White 8.Nd6 is yes an execellent move and black has no choice but to move his king to e7 or loose the rook in h8 which happenned. 

It would have been an interesting game if black played 10...f6 rather than NB4.

Black 11...Nc3 is simply a blunder, leave the knight at a2 and make a move such as f5 or ???

13.Ba5 is an interesting move also to consider the obvious 13. Qxh7, might have been also interesting as black looses a lot of material.However I prefer the way you played it preventing the king to move to  d8.

I realize than monday morning quarterback insight is 20/20. I also realize that a blitz game never give anyone the time to consider all of the options.

I am merely doing a post analysis of the game of what I see and enjoyed doing it. Hope you did also.

Some day Erik will allow pausing for say 10 mintutes, so I can play blitz games.

My wife condition requires attention immediately when she needs help. Does not happen all of the time and every 30 minutes, but when it happens I must attend. And will loose the game on time,m I have repeatdy requested thisand the answer is it will not happen.

I forget now but he said that I can plkay a game in 2 hours or so on klive chess.

Sorry to say but a blitz is not 2 hours, you have played a skilled game showing ingenuity and tactional moves and I enjoyed it, I actually replayed the game 3 times to give you my 2 senses.

likesforest,

My average opponent's rating is 1729 today, why are you asking?

paul211, thanks for your analysis. I didn't ask your avg opponent's rating. The two lines beginning "paul211>" in my post #10 were quoting what you had said.