drobilka wrote:
catmaster0 wrote:
Accidently clicked puzzle when I meant to click flip board, so my initial comment space was blank, smh. I corrected it, so if it didn't seem to look right before, I should have fixed it now.
Sure, no problem. I looked over your annotations briefly:
- One thing you need to work on is candidate moves. For both you and your opponent. Candidate moves are essentially all moves that you are considering playing/your opponent might play. Example - on your move 5, you could have 5 ...Ba5, 5 ...Be7 and 5 ...Bc5 as your candidate moves. The other moves are possible, but they aren't really worth looking into. Obviously, the example I just gave it very basic, but you could have used it during other parts of the game (like when you didn't realize he could recapture with the pawn). In your annotations, I don't see any possible variations, rather you only post abstract ideas, without a clean variation demonstrating the execution. This causes you to focus on things like, "attacking f2" when it's not important, which leads to misevaluations of the position, and often, a lack of a sense of danger.
- You mentioned you had a plan, but you have a tendency to get distracted and not execute it. This is again because you are looking at abstract ideas, and not looking at the actual possible variations themselves (calculation). You get distracted by insignificant threats.
- Regarding the moment on move 9, you say that Bb2, "looked brutal" - again, this is because you're getting caught up on non-existent threats, but the move also just looks slow; it's not playing the centre, and it's not really making an immediate threat. Same with other moments in the game - you need to train your intuition to recognize those moments.
- You need to get better at identifying the critical moments - moments you should spend more time on. in addition, some of your moves just look wrong (and you mention how you weren't sure about them). If your move isn't good, and you're the defending side, you should invest some time trying to find a better one.
I'll add more comments/material recommendations when I finish breakfast.
I agree with the idea of needing to look into candidate moves. I spend more time looking at potential threat and less time than I should seeing the specific move and how it plays out for certain ideas. I need to focus more and make more specific plans, some days I do better at this, but other times I forget and let it slide.
Just make sure to avoid "opening trap" videos - they're fun to watch, but are detrimental in the long run (I fell into the trap of watching them when i was ~600 and I tried them in every game. Things didn't end well)
drobilka, here in Russia they say that it was GM Mihael Tal who was showing the most beautiful playing.
Tal is my favourite player
My favourite player current player is Daniil Dubov though, his games are amazing - you should check them out. Here's my favourite one of his games:
It's even better when he explains it, there are so many rich ideas and motifs hidden in some of the variations. He also played brilliantly during the Lindores Abbey Knockout Stage (https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/lindores-abbey-rapid-challenge-2020-final-8), winning overall in a field with Nakamura, Carlsen, Karjakin, etc and he has some really neat opening novelties.
^^ analyzing his game against Svane (posted above)