I Annotated Every Move During a Game.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 

Geezer Team Match first game. This is one of my most enjoyable games and not because I won. I had to use the analyze feature a lot and when I decided on a sequence of moves most of the time Terry made a different move that I hadn't even considered.

In the mid game the two knights played many moves in my mind that I didn't even use. I think I got better using both knights. Keeping the knights instead of Bishop was a goal right from the start. 

     I am DENVER playing BLACK:

       White           Black

1.       E4             E5.  Bobbie Fischer style.

2.      NF3            NC6. Normal opening. My favorite two moves. 

Maybe I should try the Shcindler's Gambit here?

3.      BB5            a6.   Oh no, Ruy Lopez I don't like it! Std reply.

Run White bishop, run to A4.

4.      BA4            NF6  Took out my other Knight. Boring!

Two knights defense now. 

 5.      0 - 0           B4.   Maybe I can get him in Noah's Ark.

6.      BB3            BE7   Hmm. . . . I forgot how the Noah's Ark goes.

I hate moving the bishop to E7 it always sits there not doing much. I always think it is useless. I know it moved, so I could castle soon.

7.      C3              NXE4   No, Noah's Ark now. He has a escape diagonal. 

I kept eyeballing the E4 pawn but I'm afraid to grab it. I thought "grab it get a free pawn" and then run away. I got it.

8.      RE1            D5    Yep, I took the pawn and now here comes his Rook.  

I supported my Knight with the D pawn now he can't take it.

9.    d3           NF6  I run away with my pawn.

 10.    Nxe5          Nxe5    This is the Knight exchange. He took my E pawn first with his knight.

I took his knight back. Now he will take it with the ROOK.

11.    d4 ??        Wow. What happen? He didn't take it, he pushed the D pawn? Attacking my knight giving me time to move my Knight to safety. He let me keep the knight. ERROR! Maybe he forgot I took his Knight. Blunder.

Run! . . .  No . . . . don't run! . . . Wait . . . . . Attack maybe.

He's probably happy to be castled. I'm going to give him the Knight back, right now!

I will attack the Queen first with my Bishop.

He blocks . . I'll that the F pawn (1 point) with my bishop and my Knight supports it.

He has to take my bishop (3 points), with the G pawn and not the Queen.

That opens direct line to his king on the G file.  

I give up 3 point for his 1 point. It is worth it.

I always check to see how many points I will lose or gain when a sacrifice is involved. I don't mind if its a minor piece. Sometimes I sacrifice just for the heck of it.

Right now he has four points I have three.

11. . . . .           BG4.   I attack the Queen with my white bishop.

Many years ago in the 1950's when you attacked the Queen it was customary to say, "En Guarde" it was a gentleman's game then.

12.    f3               Bxf3     His pawn blocks the Attack.

My Bishop takes the F pawn.  

       He has to block because the Queen can't take the pawn he would lose her.

13.    gxf3 blocks   Ng6     His king protection is shattered.  

Now I run my Knight away.  MY Two Knights are together in front of my King's future fortress.

       I really only gave away one point. Because I should have lost the knight before.   I haven't castled yet.

14.    Bg5            O-O      He develops his black bishop.

                                 I castle behind my knights. I am safe now.

15.    Nd2            Qd6    Develops his knight and I centralize my Queen.            

                       Out comes my Queen not too early.

16.    Qe2            Rfe8    He puts Queen in front of Rook as a battery.  

         I move my Kings Rook to support the E7 Bishop.

         The Queen belongs behind the Rook in batteries.

17.    Qg2            Nh5       His Queen got out of the way and moves in front of her King.  

        I move my knight to begin the attack and exchange bishops.

18.    Bxe7           Rxe7     There goes my useless Bishop that I didn't like anyway. 

         The e file is mine. Now I can bring my Rook behind it.

19.    Rxe7           Qxe7    No, he took my Rook. He wants the file also. 

         I had to leave the Pawn I was protecting with my Queen.

          My Queen was doing double duty.

 20.    Qf2             Re8     His Queen is dancing again. Guess he didn't want me to check him with my Knight so he moved the Queen. 

         I made a battery on the E file and I leave a poison pawn on D5.

          I developed all my pieces.

          His Queen's Rook is sleeping on the A1 square.

21.    Bxd5           Qg5+    He took the poison pawn that had no protection when I moved my Queen.

          I check him on g5, a double attack.

22.    Qg2?          Qxd5      He moved blocking the check trying to exchange queens and save the bishop. 

         I took the Bishop instead. 

 23.    Ne4            f5     His Knight got central. He has a pyramid defense structure. I like it.

         I got to get rid of the Knight. It's in the way. I pushed my F pawn up to drive it away. 

 24.    Nc5            Nh4   White Knight moved away from defense.

          I moved my Black Knight attacking the Queen. That G pawn that  is missing sure hurts his game. I'm glad I gave back that free Knight he let me keep.

25.    Qf2             Nxf3+     The Queen keeps dancing back and forth because there is no G pawn.

        I now take the F pawn and Check! Now I got two Knight attacking.

        The White King is almost totally naked now.

26.    Kf1             Nd2+     King hides behind the Queen.

     I decide to check him with my Knight If he takes the "Poison knight".

     It is the start of a combination to win and get rid of his Queen. 

     1st. move of combination.

 27.    Qxd2          QH1+     He took the Knight.       He will lose the Queen.

     Now 2ND move of combination.

     I check in the corner square H1 with my Queen.

     Player resigned. Here is the rest of it.

     I played against the computer. 

28.     KF2            QXH2+    King moved to the second row.

      I took the H2 pawn with a check also.

      3rd move of combination.

29.     KF1            QXD2     I took the Queen, last move of combination. 

 30.     RE!           RXR#    CHECKMATE

       I finished the game against the computer and I checkmated in five moves by bringing my Knight and the Rook to finish it.

       I know this is probably not the way to put a game on here, I don't like the small font on the diagram available to me.

           Thanks for looking, or reading. Or just playing the game.

Help me.

It takes so long to annotate a game. Maybe I am doing it the wrong way.

Should I put the annotation after his move or mine?

I found out finally that there is a way to annotate using a annotate feature. So I will now try that. I can see that it is quicker and easy.  Yeah  . . . sure.

I would love to help you, but I am not going to read a post written in such a small font size.

Hi Wilbert

Thanks. I didn't know that it was in font size 8.  I made it 14 now

Happy New Year!  DENVER

And best wishes for you too in 2014! Thanks for editing the post. I'll read it first thing in the morning! (1.21am here, time to get some sleep!)

Goodnight

lol, only 5 years late

Better late than never . . .