I thought I was doing well, help me understand where I went wrong. - Chess Forums - Page 2

sundevilwolf

Mar 12, 2022

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#21

Karlabos wrote:

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

Thanks for telling me which moves specifically were bad. 18 I think I was going for forking the king rook and missed the queen guarding it. 23 was trying to attack the bishop and position to get a check on back missed the rook vulnerability. 39 flustered and couldn’t figure out how to get passed pawns without capture and so just hit one not thinking. Plus i think I was in a time crunch.

sundevilwolf

Mar 12, 2022

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#22

Thanks everyone. Appreciate those who told me which moves specifically were bad I can see them now. 18 thought I was forking missed the Q. 23 trying to attack something bishop or move to back, missed vulnerable rook, 39 flustered couldn’t figure out how to get passed pawns without capture missed the knight and i think was getting low on time.

I frequently run out of time on 10 mins, 15|10 is ok. 30 is too long I want to get more games in, lose interest in playing after a long game. And I usually get some pressuring to speed up from the opponent which just annoys me.

jg777chess

Mar 12, 2022

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#23

Hi,

I'd much prefer to go over games live with players but in an attempt to provide some feedback, see below with some notes of your game. While the loss is likely very disappointing, it does give insight into how you can improve going forward. With some work, you may never have games like this one again! If I was to give your opponent one advice over the game, it is this- stop making so many pawn moves in the opening! First 10 moves in the opening all pawn moves is ridiculous!

-Jordan

sundevilwolf

Mar 12, 2022

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#24

jg777chess wrote:

Hi,

I'd much prefer to go over games live with players but in an attempt to provide some feedback, see below with some notes of your game. While the loss is likely very disappointing, it does give insight into how you can improve going forward. With some work, you may never have games like this one again! If I was to give your opponent one advice over the game, it is this- stop making so many pawn moves in the opening! First 10 moves in the opening all pawn moves is ridiculous!

-Jordan

Thank you so much for the detailed analysis. It makes sense when you put it that way. I look at the analysis after the game, and it says what the best move is but often I don't know understand "why". And usually get really confused when there are random non e4 5 d 4 5 openings.

sundevilwolf

Mar 12, 2022

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#25

TacticalPrecision wrote:

Seems as though the 500 rated OP is just going to continue playing 10/0 and not improving.

I played 5 games since my original post, I'm not going to suddenly improve in 5 games. 2 were 10 min 3 were 15 | 10. It doesn't matter the time as much as understanding where I am making mistakes. I've played 30 min and longer even daily and still lose with lots of mistakes.

eric0022

Mar 12, 2022

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#26

sundevilwolf wrote:

TacticalPrecision wrote:

Seems as though the 500 rated OP is just going to continue playing 10/0 and not improving.

I played 5 games since my original post, I'm not going to suddenly improve in 5 games. 2 were 10 min 3 were 15 | 10. It doesn't matter the time as much as understanding where I am making mistakes. I've played 30 min and longer even daily and still lose with lots of mistakes.

It takes time. Everyone has different learning speeds, styles and preferences. It takes quite a bit of effort to actually observe a noticeable change in your playing strength.