I had black and my 2000 elo opponent playing white in a 10min rapid game. The opening was pretty smooth so I’ll skip this because openings are not helpful in a chess journey that much. Skipping to move 16. hxg3 we enter the middlegame and I’ll discuss all my plans here. 16. Nb6 is played after you ask What is a good square for my inactive knight and developing the rooks here is equal in how good the move is just doing my plan because I like it. 18. a3 allows white to play c4 because I would have done Nb4 getting the good bishop. 19. Nxf7, this is what I saw, but I didn’t worry because I would have 2 minor pieces for 1 pawn and 1 rook which is good for the side who has the 2 minor pieces., but my opponent probably did this because of my isolated pawn on e6 so I wanted to remove the weakness as soon as possible my trading it off. 24. e5 was a bit tunnel visioned because I missed Rfe1. 26. Nf8 removing the queen away from the defense of g3. Moving to 29. Qxg4 generally speaking speakingIn any kind of endgame I usually asses all assets of the opponent and and my assets and my opponents weaknesses and my weaknesses and check for a move that attacks my opponent’s weakness and defends mine and if there is no attacking and defending move then attacking will be my suggestion to go with and you should do this on one move which is probably 15sec, but then every move you can use 5 sec for the weaknesses check after check what changed and what weaknesses you can take advantage of or your weaknesses you should defend or prevent from happening. I first supported the knight on g4 and didn’t want to lose it from that square and I saw no weaknesses in my opponent’s position, but I was scared of the passed pawn so I brang my king closer with 32. Ke6 to defend and I can’t attack anything so I just tried to defend against the passed pawn. There were no weaknesses in my position, but attacking/putting pressure on stuff might make a weakness or make my opponent do a mistake so my move 33. Nd7 had the plan of Nb6 Nc4 to put pressure on some pawns. 35. b3 stopped Nc3, but not 25. Nd5. Always think that when you have a plan always think what if they stop it and if you have a good response to their stopping of your plan then do it. 26. Nd3, now, I wasn’t sure what I was doing here, I think I thought that the knights looked cool so I put it there, but I had time so I should have considered other moves. They attacked my knight with 37. Rfe1 and if I didn’t retreat then they could trade and my knights couldn’t help block the pawns and then 38. Nfe3 and I thought Rfe1 Nf5 and repeat, but I didn’t see 39. Rd3 and now here I thought I was losing because of the pawns, but I could kinda hold maybe I didn’t check the engine with my knight blocking, but it’s hard to defend here. 43. Nfe3! Here I was relieved because I forked the king and the pawn and if they take I win the pawn anyway as shown when they take on the board. 47. Rxe6 and I was confused because my opponent was down one pawn, but I enjoy the win. On the pawn endgame where I got the passed pawn on move 51. hxg4 and I noticed I could waste a tempo which made this much easier, but I could also have sacrificed my pawn to distract the opposing king and get those pawns.
I had black and my 2000 elo opponent playing white in a 10min rapid game. The opening was pretty smooth so I’ll skip this because openings are not helpful in a chess journey that much. Skipping to move 16. hxg3 we enter the middlegame and I’ll discuss all my plans here. 16. Nb6 is played after you ask What is a good square for my inactive knight and developing the rooks here is equal in how good the move is just doing my plan because I like it. 18. a3 allows white to play c4 because I would have done Nb4 getting the good bishop. 19. Nxf7, this is what I saw, but I didn’t worry because I would have 2 minor pieces for 1 pawn and 1 rook which is good for the side who has the 2 minor pieces., but my opponent probably did this because of my isolated pawn on e6 so I wanted to remove the weakness as soon as possible my trading it off. 24. e5 was a bit tunnel visioned because I missed Rfe1. 26. Nf8 removing the queen away from the defense of g3. Moving to 29. Qxg4 generally speaking speakingIn any kind of endgame I usually asses all assets of the opponent and and my assets and my opponents weaknesses and my weaknesses and check for a move that attacks my opponent’s weakness and defends mine and if there is no attacking and defending move then attacking will be my suggestion to go with and you should do this on one move which is probably 15sec, but then every move you can use 5 sec for the weaknesses check after check what changed and what weaknesses you can take advantage of or your weaknesses you should defend or prevent from happening. I first supported the knight on g4 and didn’t want to lose it from that square and I saw no weaknesses in my opponent’s position, but I was scared of the passed pawn so I brang my king closer with 32. Ke6 to defend and I can’t attack anything so I just tried to defend against the passed pawn. There were no weaknesses in my position, but attacking/putting pressure on stuff might make a weakness or make my opponent do a mistake so my move 33. Nd7 had the plan of Nb6 Nc4 to put pressure on some pawns. 35. b3 stopped Nc3, but not 25. Nd5. Always think that when you have a plan always think what if they stop it and if you have a good response to their stopping of your plan then do it. 26. Nd3, now, I wasn’t sure what I was doing here, I think I thought that the knights looked cool so I put it there, but I had time so I should have considered other moves. They attacked my knight with 37. Rfe1 and if I didn’t retreat then they could trade and my knights couldn’t help block the pawns and then 38. Nfe3 and I thought Rfe1 Nf5 and repeat, but I didn’t see 39. Rd3 and now here I thought I was losing because of the pawns, but I could kinda hold maybe I didn’t check the engine with my knight blocking, but it’s hard to defend here. 43. Nfe3! Here I was relieved because I forked the king and the pawn and if they take I win the pawn anyway as shown when they take on the board. 47. Rxe6 and I was confused because my opponent was down one pawn, but I enjoy the win. On the pawn endgame where I got the passed pawn on move 51. hxg4 and I noticed I could waste a tempo which made this much easier, but I could also have sacrificed my pawn to distract the opposing king and get those pawns.