Recent game for analysis

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Avatar of ManicMinerUK

Right, lets kick things off in this group with a slightly odd game I played recently with a workmate.

I submitted this to the computer analysis function on chess.com, but I've found what I got back very confusing. It's adamant that I should have played a couple of moves but the line it shows leads to losing positions, and so I can't easily find out why it thinks those are the best I can do.

I do understand that this means that my opponent must have missed crushing responses to the moves I did play, but I'd be interested to get clearer analysis from stronger players on what I missed and what they would have done.

 

Avatar of hic2482w

I believe the correct reply was O-O followed by Re1. When you play that, your opponent can do this: