Game analysis

Just thought i would create this thread for anyone wanting to post any games for analysis. If you have any please post them here!

Heres a short game for you to look at until somebody posts a game.

This is from david bronsteins 200 open games. Bronstein won by resignation.

Okay, Here is a game i played against IM pfren, Im currently trying to learn my endgame as im i am terrible, so what do i do, i trade off my pieces with an international master of course lol.

The game is short and i believe i played terrible, blocking most of my pieces, and trading my good pieces, hopefully my endgame will improve.

Any advice on the game or endgame principles would be great!

well you kept material advantage vs. an IM. that was good. nice job. your annotations were pretty good. I would have sugested playing 3. Bc4 instead. as the Italian doesn't have as many positional Ideas attached to it.

here is a game I played in a team match for another group. looks like my opponent was unprepared for the Sicilian. though I almost blew a decisive advantage

nice game,your opponent may have made a few mistakes , but you exploited these mistakes . And thats what chess is all about. you seem to have more of an overall plan then i do, maybe that is my downfall.

Hi,

I thought there was already a forum for this? Or is this more group-centred?

Thanks

yeh i thought if the group got used to commenting on each others games, it would help break the ice and get us helping each other to learn abit more, also some users dont regularly check the forum's for posts so yeh this is more group-centered is suppose.

@jetfighter:

8. ... a5? is a wrong implementation of the right idea as far as I know. I play the same system against closed Sicilians, and you really have to play b5 before you play a5. After 8. ... a5 9. a4! you have a hole on b5 and you can never play b5 anymore. After the superior 8. ... a6 (preparing b5), you have much more freedom. 9. a4 makes less sense now because white can't make use of the b5 square. Eventually black will play ... b5 (it might take a while though, be patient!

Also, avoid playing Rb8. You kinda want to open the a-file in most cases, and then the rook is perfectly fine on a8. 

Doesn't 12. ... b4 completely demolish white's position? e.g. 13. axb4 axb4 14. cxb4 Nxb4 (hitting the weak d3-pawn, and the pawn on b2 looks doomed). b4 is actually almost always the move you really want to play in such a position.

13. ... a4? Don't lock the position! The idea of your queenside advance was to open lines - don't do anything. Let him take a5 or c5, later on play b4 yourself. If he doesn't take, at some point you will. Your comment says that your opponent has no pieces on the kingside, but he does! If he can play Nh2 and f2-f4-f5, he has all his pieces pointing to your king (the bishops have some nice diagonals there!) and you're the one with all your pieces on the queenside :p

Other notes:

20. ... Nb3 looks good. 

25. Rb8+ and you're dead meat.

After 25. Nf3 Qf4 holds.

Then there's a cascade of blunders and you end up the lucky winner :p

I hope chessblood is okay with me posting this one... It might have been brilliant, it might have been a blunderfest... I haven't had the courage to engine-check it yet. :p

I certainly don't mind Maarten. I was thinking about posting it myself.

Here's a recent game that features a nifty queen sac for an early checkmate.

Very Nice! Adambriel

3. ... Qe7 wins the pawn back though :)

3. Nxe5 is the best move though :p

Yeah, I definitely like Nxe5 better :p

here is a brief analysis of the Dragon game

just my opinions. may not be 100% but it is probably around 80%+

26. Qf4?? winning was 26.Nf4 Crippling Black's position

here is a cute little game

did I miss anything.

here is a cute game you all might enjoy