I thought I was doing well, help me understand where I went wrong.

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Well you actually could have moved the knight on f3 away and then checkmated with the queen
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Before he started pushing
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By making all those pawn moves there were dark square weaknesses. I think you should have tried to use your Queen and Dark Square Bishop
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You blundered your rooks and gave away valuable pawns in the endgame
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What kind of game was this?
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You started better than the other guy. You threw away your advantage attacking impatiently, specifically by hanging your knight and then the rook. Try to be more careful with making sure your pieces are protected before committing to a move.

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Your concept knowledge is better than your opponent's. You develop pieces on the beginning while he pushes pawns, so you clearly got a superior position on the start

 

But you need to work on not hanging pieces.

You hang a knight on move 18

You hang a rook on move 23

You hang a rook on move 39 Maybe you got too confident?

 

You could have avoided those if you doublechecked if the squares you are going to are threatened or not before moving to them and if you asked yourself if the opponent was threatening something with his last move. You should try to keep those things in mind when making your moves during your games. It's ok to become confident when attaining a winning position, but never become incautious

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Jalex13 wrote:
What kind of game was this?

10 minute rapid. I ran out of time, he still had 5+ mins left. 

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U got a big advantage against ur opponent, but u got too confident:

u hung a knight and a rook

u gave ur valuable pawns for nothing.

If u got to a winning position, don't be incautious, like dis comment above me said.

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sundevilwolf wrote:
Jalex13 wrote:
What kind of game was this?

10 minute rapid. I ran out of time, he still had 5+ mins left. 

Running out of time in Rapid is very rare. Except if u are lagging.

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and also, look out for bishops and queens. Their long range attacks are pretty scary.

33.b4 is bad. Could've took his g-pawn.

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Play 30 minute Rapid
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Wanna play a game?

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Jalex13 wrote:
Play 30 minute Rapid

15/10 is enough, but there are pairing problems. (U getting paired by someone 200+ points higher than u). 

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Mhm
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Jalex13 wrote:
Well you actually could have moved the knight on f3 away and then checkmated with the queen

 

I actually prefer to move it forward rather than away (4. Ne5).

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18. Nc7+ is done one move too early.

 

18. g3 first and things might look better.

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Eric yeah when I said away I just meant to another square forward likely is the best move 😄
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I suggest 30 minute Rapid since you don’t seem to do well with time pressure and you can take your time and relax