Chess Games

This thread is specifically devoted to discussing specific chess games.

I'll start this topic with a game I played today that actually turned out to be very interesting- It was a 30|0 game where my opponent and I kept trading off pieces until we had similar positional play and I was up by only a pawn. I offered a draw twice just because I couldn't see a win for a while. My opponent declined the draw offers, and so we kept playing until I eventually gained a clear advantage in the endgame and my opponent resigned. The most bizarre element in this game that made it interesting, however, was that at a point in the game I had tripled pawns and feared this would be a great disadvantage, as there was nothing to protect them. The position actually caused no harm, but I think it still might have had my opponent played different moves.

Here is the game:

That is interesting. Its odd enough to see trippled pawns but in this case they werent really a huge disadvantage like in most cases.

Lol Its right there after 18 and just before 20.

You could of won an extra rook on move 19! Instead of NxG3 you could of played ----RxD1+. White king would of been forced to respond, most likely move KxD1. Thus letting you to play NxG3, winning you a Rook and giving you an advantage. 

I see what you mean now, so I would have just traded off rooks instead of losing one.

Indeed, and plus being a rook up in the endgame. 

I rencently, played a great game and thought to share it with you guys. Any feedback/better combinations will be greatly appreciated! 

It was 15 mins each.

Any questions do not hesitate to ask! :) 

Have a good day/night. 

I liked the ending checkmate, but you weren't in the lead before you checkmated- it seemed you and your opponent were both staging attacks on the kingside and trading pieces. The only lead you had was when your opponent lost their queen. I think you could have done better in terms of strategy.

I also agree, most the game was just tactics and trading peices. Would there be anything you could suggest specificly,  that could of been improved for stratergy? (If not that is okay.)

I didn't play too well in this game- I blundered a lot, but ended up coming back in the endgame enough to almost have a win and then draw the game.

Here's a 30|0 game I played today against a lower rated player- as you can see from the play the player is obviously weak, but I wanted to know if it really took 32 moves to checkmate them, or if I could have checkmated them earlier (the game was really long in terms of time because my opponent took about 30 seconds or more on each move). I tend to have trouble with those kinds of things in my game.

Well done, good game. Very intresting. 

Here is a 30|0 game I just played against a stronger, aggressive player. I lost (I didn't notice I would be back-rank checkmated, and blundered at other times in the game), but I think I played fairly well (there were some much better moves that I overlooked, though). It was a short game, only 31 moves long, but it had some interesting positions.

Here is a crazy 30|0 game I just played in Live Chess- a lower rated player was copying my moves, and so I created an aggressive attack to stop them from annoyingly copying my moves. The attack ended up in me exploiting my opponent's weakness, and it seemed as if I had an easy win- until I couldn't find a clear checkmate and starting just biding my time, taking hanging pieces. This turned out to be a big mistake- my opponent checkmated me within a few moves of me doing this! It was a simple one-move checkmate, too! Shows that you can't underestimate an opponent, and I have to look out for checkmates like that!

23. Qg6 wins, I think. With an overwhelming material advantage a queen exchange would have been a winner. 

Silman would say don't go king hunting when you can be strangling your opponent with better moves. 

I just lost a game I should have won because of that on an online chess game, and it hurt me bad.

It's likely awesome-chess has run it through a computer already. It's likely he's asking a psychological question, such as "here I was having my way and I got mated, is that fair?".

30|0 games don't give you that much time, and it takes very little to get distracted and toss a game. 

I would be weary of using any form of irony in English until you have mastered the language.