The developing the two knights to the edge of the board thing is awful, and i like 14...a5 better. ill play through therest of the game and post another comment later.
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2...Nh6 does really, nothing. It secures the g3 and the f4 square, which aren't critical squares in the opening.
Same with 3. ... Na6
4... f6 I think you're trying to protect yourself against the supposed threat of g5, trapping your knight. Remember your queen is protecting that square. That move just opened a diagonal to your king. Your opponent could easily just do 5. g5, fxg5
6. qh5+, endangering your king.
5. ...d6 I liked this move.Your bishop can take that pawn, which also forks the two pieces.
Ahh, Looking at the rest of the game, you and your opponent made a lot of blunders. Try tactics training, it'll help. Such moves such as 20...nxc3The only reason you lost is cause you made more blunders than your opponent in this game. I think this is because you play without a plan. This usually happens to me too when i was at the 1300 level, I just kept on playing with no plan until I saw an opportunity. That's wrong. You must always have some sort of goal, whether its to lure a piece away to take a simple pawn, or checkmate. This took me a long time to learn too =P
Goatnotsheep wrote:
2...Nh6 does really, nothing. It secures the g3 and the f4 square, which aren't critical squares in the opening.
Same with 3. ... Na6
4... f6 I think you're trying to protect yourself against the supposed threat of g5, trapping your knight. Remember your queen is protecting that square. That move just opened a diagonal to your king. Your opponent could easily just do 5. g5, fxg5
6. qh5+, endangering your king.
5. ...d6 I liked this move.Your bishop can take that pawn, which also forks the two pieces.
Ahh, Looking at the rest of the game, you and your opponent made a lot of blunders. Try tactics training, it'll help. Such moves such as 20...nxc3The only reason you lost is cause you made more blunders than your opponent in this game. I think this is because you play without a plan. This usually happens to me too when i was at the 1300 level, I just kept on playing with no plan until I saw an opportunity. That's wrong. You must always have some sort of goal, whether its to lure a piece away to take a simple pawn, or checkmate. This took me a long time to learn too =P
I was black. I won :)
the Nh6 and Na6 were bad, f6 and c6 control more of the center. You should've lost at the end a piece down, but the opponent blundered it back... tactics trainer will help.
he should not have allowed me to take the bishop near the end
where do you think I could improve?
What did I do well?