After first two moves, there were lots of mistakes from both. Alekhine opening 4... Nb4 is wrong, He allowed 7... Nc2? Then 10 .. cxd4 ? Qc8 was better.
You were better but can improve with little attention to basics.. Congrats
Did I play good or bad?
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Let me be frank. You were terrible. You are lucky you did not get checkmated. Your opponent blunder in move 22. He had a forced checkmate. I'll give you the moves & you check it out yourself
21.......Qe6+
22.Kf8 Nf5+ (open check, see the bishop on h6)
23.Ke8 Nd6#
Your opponent held your neck all the way. You were just very LUCKY. Even in move 25, you opponent had a forced checkmate.
24..... Kg6
25.Qf5+ Kf7 (...... KxBh6)
26.Qh5+ Kg8 (Rg1! (threatening Qh5#) (..... Kf8)
27.Be6+ Kf8 (Ne6+ Kg8)
28. Nf5# (bishop on h6 delivers Open checkmate) (NxQd7 RxNd7)
29. (Be6+ Nf7)
30. (B or Q xNf7#)
You were never in control of the game. Your opponent just blundered in move 28 & you won because of that!
Thanks for the info, I hope I do better next time, as upon review everything you said turned out to be true.
Here is another one where I am not sure if I played fairly well or fairly bad. This one carried on until checkmate, and my endgame took forever.
Thanks in advance,
iamad3, if you really want to learn, show us the game where you lost. You will learn more there than in games you won.
Your above game:
- Your move 5 is not good. Your opponent did well to take advantage of it. You give a chance for your opponent to destroy your castling chances, thereby putting your king in a risk in the whole game
- Your move 7 is also bad. Just just making thing worse for yourself. That move will give you an isolated (lone) pawn as you shown in the game. That is bad. Avoid that in the future.
- Give a pat on your that you saw what your opponent intended. (opponent's move 10 - the threat of fork)
- Your opponent's move 14 was bad. He should have moved the bishop to d7 so that he castle & put his king to safety first. After all you are handicapped as you can't castle
- move 21 is obviously bad. You did not check for threat, check & capture. Before everymove you make, SEE the WHOLE board. Try playing long games. Try making that as a habit.
- Move 24, your opponent is kind enough to allow you to equalize.
- Move 25, your opponent starts to fall apart.
- Your move 24, again you failed to see the obvious. Better was Rc5. End of day you will an extra pawn
- Move 42 better was Rf4. You need to see how to checkmate or force your opponent to exchange the rook.
- Move 53, after your good moves you decided to tourture your opponent. Try to finish off your opponent was quickly as possible. Should have taken the rook. Then you can torture him by promoting as many queens as possible. Again, my advice, finish off your opponent quickly as possible.
- Move 59, why are you SCARED! Just promote the pawn to queen. Nothing can your opponent do except exchange that Queen for his rook.
- Your move 62 is horroundous. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!! I know you have won but you need to have good habit.
You are really bad because you are NOT seeing the whole board & not checking whether there are threats, check or capture! If you don't understand what threats, check or capture means....let me explain to you. When you make a move, see if there is a threat of tactic (this in time you will improve - try going to 'chess tempo' & do the tactics there) & check what you opponent intended to do. Why he did that. Is there a tactic or threat. See if your opponent can straight away capture your piece or trap it or put in a tactic to capture that piece or another piece or are you moving a defensive piece away to allow a deadly check. See if your opponent can do a tactic by checking. This is quite deadly. In simple words, see the whole board & determine if there is any threat to the move you are going to make or because of that move to another piece. I hope you understand.
Can somebody tell me how good I played in this game?
Thank you in advance.