Funny Mistakes

I'm pretty sure my common sense is broken, lol.

Well, at least we see you wanted to keep the d4 pawn defended! The glass is half full!

That's fair; to be honest, I really just wanted to develop and see what it would be like to play with my pawns on D4, E4 because that opportunity doesn't happen often. But, the problem was, from my point of view, that my brain didn't allow for that to be a real choice, if that makes any sense. I never really allowed taking the knight to be a real option. I keep getting locked into "cognitive sets," about "what should be next" especially when playing white. . . when I play black, I don't know any openings so I actually feel more present and able to think creatively and flexibly. I don't think I'm getting locked into prejudgements about how to develop as much, beyond basic opening concepts.

Fantastic performance in early Sunday rapid today!

I'm waiting for a message from chess.com asking me to install Proctor.

it happens , you'll do better next time, I'm sure

Tried to castle, somehow this happened.

A classic. To be honest, that position is probably one of the best where that can happen to you. Your opponent is really underdeveloped (this probably emerged from a Scandinavian where the opponent gave at least one meaningless check with the queen is my guess), and you still can castle the other way with a good position.

Yep! People my rating really don't know how to play Scandinavian properly. (Me neither, it's why I only have studied the defense against it!)

There was this funny line I anticipated of 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 Ne4!?, but he played a variation, something like a delayed Trompowsky, and somebody must’ve fed me two shots of vodka because I played Ne4 almost immediately without thinking.

I accidentally pre-moved losing a full piece but still one the game

I might as well post here everyday XD. This was today’s early Sunday Rapid Swiss Tournament of the club, I lost fifteen elo because of this (GG to the 1500 I was drunk)

In this game I was up a piece and I just missed that because of the queen move he was threatening the rook missed and just lost the game. Congratulations to my opponent though because he saw something I completely overlooked, because I was overconfident.

I resigned thinking I was losing, but it was around equality!

This is what I get for spending two seconds on a move when I have four minutes left!

This is a random daily game which I played with @cegalleta. I really can’t explain why I did this but yeah. On move 19 I blundered horribly. From his advice I should have played it when his queen wasn’t there. What do you guys think?

@TheLearnerofGames, I agree with @cegalleta that you should have sacrificed your knight when the queen wasn’t defending the pawn, since your position was a little trapped, and if it opens up successfully, even at the cost of material, it would be good.

Another idea is to push the b-pawn at some moment, for example at move 19, you could place one of your rooks on b8, preparing …b5, which would target the a-pawn (on a4, if it didn’t move to a4, the playing …b5-…b4 is strong), and starting to open up the pieces. However in a good perspective, it is pretty nice you spotted the possibility of sacrificing the knight, even if the execution was slightly wrong, since it takes lots of experience to build up such intuition.

Personally I feel that I’m not that good with closed positions because of checkmate threats and things like that but honestly I need to find space on the board more efficiently.

Thanks for the overview!

This whole game was crazy bad, at first I just missed a disconection tactic that was just winning and then in a winning endgame I was thinking about playing a check to save an attacked rook and getting an attack and then I just thought well I could do it in another order as well and just left the rook there, blundering the game right away, I was lucky and my opponent didn't see it.