It's always in my games, I don't know what to do next, and in my lost games I don't know why I lost the game even with analysis, and why a certain move would give me an advantage, although it doesn't look that good
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First, this. This is particularly unbearable. My opponent was more than 150 above than me, I was a full rook up, Still I managed to lose this. I mean,, how do you guys bear this? Playing well against a significantly higher rated plyer and getting nothing?
You refused on several occasions to start eating your opponents hanging pawns, so they used them to win the endgame.
Also you had weakened your king in the middlegame allowing the opponent to play a perpetual when down a whole rook, but they didn’t.
Could you please specify what I could have done in stead? And how can I improve my chess overall? I mean , this game won't comeback again, so, in new games I may make new mistakes, how can I improve overall?
And regarding hanging pawns, why can't I see them during games? And when I am a full rook up, how can I utilize it?
Allowing white to play 29. Qxf7+ is terrible. What was the point of your Rb8 move anyway? Were you hoping that the guy blunders the queen?
Playing 30. - g6 is even worse. Before that, your king had a safe place on h8. Now the king is wide open.
Despite all this, you were still winning. But then... the worst move of the game was 45. - Qxg3+, throwing away a rook for nothing. Why would you do that?
29. I forgot that f-file was open!
30. I don't know! I couldn't think of anything.
45. I was actually up that rook. I had only three minutes on clock. I hoped getting rid of the queen would simplify things. I was visibly stressed because I was not getting any breakthrough despite the advantage, neither was I seeing any clear plan.
julkifol wrote:
45. I was actually up that rook. I had only three minutes on clock. I hoped getting rid of the queen would simplify things. I was visibly stressed because I was not getting any breakthrough despite the advantage, neither was I seeing any clear plan.
Yes, but after throwing away the rook you are losing instead of winning. "Getting rid of the queen" is a terrible idea if you give queen + rook for it.
3 minutes is still a lot of time. All you needed to do is not blunder a rook and you would win eventually..
How would I win where I couldn't find any sort of plan at all? There is no check, no capture, my queen under attack, my king can be checked the next move, sorry, but quite overwhelming for me.
julkifol wrote:
How would I win where I couldn't find any sort of plan at all? There is no check, no capture, my queen under attack, my king can be checked the next move, sorry, but quite overwhelming for me.
It is not easy at that point. It would be easy if you hadn't blundered away your kingside pawns previously, and your king had 3 pawns (or at least 2) in front of him. With the king wide open, it's more difficult.
What I would do is double rooks on the f-file and try to attack the white king (who also has a compromised pawn wall in front of him).
But the main point is: try to not throw away material by accident, and absolutely, definitely don't throw away material deliberately.
Here, I had no idea what's going on, and I lost a pawn. Still got no safe move and resigned. Now the engine says I was well ahead and the best move was a knight sacrifice out of nowhere. How am I supposed to find these moves?
Don't resign. It's that easy. Don't resign.
By the way, resigning after losing a single pawn is ridiculous. No serious player would do that.
I was actually clueless of what I can do.
Another clueless position was move 16 of this game. By move 16, I had no idea what to do. And that led to the mistake on move 19. Moreover , I didn't know I made a mistake even after the move.
Don’t worry
Don’t worry, everyone makes mistakes! The key is to learn from them and keep improving. Keep practicing, and you’ll definitely see progress! And to distract yourself from the stress of failure and catch your breath, I recommend playing here https://bonuslukazino.com/ I often switch to a game that does not require maximum concentration and attention. It helps me.
I am not actually improving. I was around 700 four years ago, I am around 700 now. That's why I am trying to figure it out. But nothing's working.
julkifol wrote:
I was actually clueless of what I can do.
That's completely okay. Chess is hard. Occasionally even GMs don't know what to do.
When that happens, you figure out something, and do that. Or maybe hold the position and try to do nothing. But don't resign.
In this position I decided to play 30. Qd5 because I thought that was a better square. But the evaluation bar says that is a significantly bad move. However it went like 30. Qd5 Rg8 31. Qxg8 and I won only because my opponent decided to blunder a free rook . My question is, how could I make a good move here? What should have been the thought process? I can't expect, can't even hope for a rook blunder, right?
In this thread, I will post positions or games where I didn't know what went wrong, or didn't know the next move. I hope there will be people willing to help me out.