Analyses of games

As discussed in the notes, use this topic to analyse your own games or get insight from the other members on your games.

Wilbert and I played this one yesterday.  After the opening trap, we evened things up and then had a pretty nice game!

Hehe, well you did! :) My game was less pretty.
I made a huge blunder at  move 4. Later Fritz told me the best move would have been to just take d4. At the moment I didn't want to take, being afraid the Queen would end up on f3, attacking f7 with the bishop, knight and queen. A mistake I probably won't make again. All in all I was pleased with my game. Given the difference in rating for me it wasn't about winning, but staying alive as long as I could. Having said that, Heister traded his bishop for the f-pawn. Without that 'trade' I would have been swept from the board much earlier.

Fantastic mid and and game guys :)   And a very nice and brutal trap!   After that blow i would have tried, 7...d6.    hopefully leading to a small win on a pawn.     

not sure whats up with the bishop sac...?   :) oh well lol.

Hehe I guess that was to give me at least a shot ;)

I wanted an advantage because I did so well in the opening, but I also wanted a more even middle game.  Otherwise there would have been less to discuss!

Just for my own knowledge, what would you say about the middlegame? I did make the huge blunder offcourse with the bishop, but prior to that. Did I put up a fight? What would have been beter tactics?

You actually surprised me at move 28.  I had overlooked Bg4 and then blundered in the time crunch we were in with Re1, and I think you could have evened the score after 29. ...Rf7 pinning the pawn.  I was prepared to handle Rf7 before Bg4 by playing Nf3 and trading a couple pawns.

Mr_Crow and I played this one in correspondence.  

Yea around 13 I was running out of ideas, and I looked for my weakest piece and tried to make it better, ie trying to get the knight at f6 to somewhere more active

53... If I only moved the king instead of being inpatient and taking the pawn... Fantastic review!  Highly entertaining :D

Can we see the notes from Crow's point of view?

Yea!  Would love too, I get off work late tonight and ill work on it.  I have a few notes on it.

another recent game i had.  

Haha very nice to see your review also! Thanks! That second game will come, but first I need to finish some of my current games, before I get overloaded :)

Here is a game from Smyslov before he was world champion.  I put it in as a puzzle so you can play guess the move if you want.  This is one of the strangest maneuvering games I've come across, so don't expect to get the moves right :p  Otherwise, I think you can step through it with the little lightbulb in the bottom corner when you get too frustrated.

Smyslov is white.

Well that was hectic.  Lol.   Trying to absorb something from this.  Blacks move on 24?   What did he gain from it?

Mr_Crow thanks for your notes.  

I've finised 3 of these group games and I didn't make notes at the time for any of them (rule breaker).  Can people tell me how they go about it?