This was my game against Dmitri Zilberstein in a simul at my high school. It was fun to play against Dmitri and even though i lost i still get pizza for surviving more than 35 moves. My friend got a draw! I posted this game because i wanted to know what I could've done better. (My endgame is horrible). Thanks.

nice play alex. next time you shouldn't play french. play more of an open than a closed game.

Nothing wrong with playing the french.

However you have to know what you are doing and you clearly don't know how to play the french. Bb4 has no place in the tarrasch, and you should never block the c pawn.

nice game alex

Sorry, can't help you out with any game advice, your a stronger player than me. However, I am interested in what happened. How many games were played, were they timed? Also, what was his final score? Was he promoting chess in schools?

@ maradonna, he(Dimitri) was playing a whole lot of people at once, and they weren't timed, but most people made their move by the time he got back around to them

Its amazing to see how he gets all his pieces into the action esp the knights and bishops. May be your lack of knowledge of this opening and that did you in. No offence, even I do not know.

However, you should have considered playing c5 earlier to break his long queen side pawn structure.

Other than opening and endgame play there is nothing I would fault you on.Its funny but I think I've found an improvement for white (the IM). Instead of Ra2 on move 18, Bxf5 wins a pawn atleast.

What a great thrill for you to play and learn in such a simul!

From reading books on master simultaneous play (Alekhine, Fischer, Koltanowski) I note that the games are typically lost by the amateurs more than won by the by the masters (yes, I know there are exceptions.)

In some ways, watching how efficiently the masters take advantage of the amateurs' errors is more instructive to me than discerning errors of the replays between two grandmasters.

I was fortunate in my active years to play Koltanowski, Christiansen, Biyassis, and Grefe in simuls, and for the most part always left with a memorable experience, and would gladly do such events again.

when u play with alot of players against one with no time just back to back games , one after another, it is called bird house. ty

Some comments on the game:

1) As noted by Sconsc, 3...Bb4 is misplaced after white's queenknight is on d2 instead of c3. Better would be 3...c5 or 3...Nf6, and of course you have probably already checked the books on that.

2) 4...Be7 may have been better. Your black square bishop remains a spectator throughout the next critical section of the game.

3) While I understand the motivation for 6...h6, it creates weakness that haunts you for quite a while. Ne7 looks congested. Perhaps, Nf6 followed (after white's e5) by Nd7-f8 after black castles and plays Re8.

4) Another idea to consider is queenside castling, inviting both sides to storm the other's castle!

5) Making use of black's queen bishop is often a task in the French. A common method is ...b6 and ...Ba6 to trade it off. Beware to avoid the trap of white snagging black's knight on a6 (via Qa4+) which retook white's bishop. Another route to trade off the QB for black is Bd7-e8-h5 (if black's f-pawn is out of the way.)

6) ...f5 was an interesting try to close up the kingside, but after white alertly played ef6, the weakness caused by h6 is accentuated. See note 4.

I hope these notes are taken in the spirit in which I give them.