Post Your Beginner Games Here To Talk About!

Just a space to talk about your early stages of games!

Here's one for you guys...

The above game with annotations I added, because I have nothing better to do:

Thanks for annotating my game

I made quite a lot of inaccuracies... Yet still pulled through...

Here's another one:

Thank you einWWe for posting your game! Let me analyze it for you!

When the opposing side castles, it would be a good time to castle too, for it allows your queen and other pieces to become more involved. It's also a good idea to not let your left pieces hang and not move! For it plays into the game and allows you to not get overwhelmed.

When the opponent plays d5, the best move their would be d3, protecting your overwhelmed pawn and securing your pieces in the center! Also, when you played the 12th move, you missed a forced queen "exchange" For you could've done Qf3+, (which you do later on), causing less pieces and a faster endgame with your advantage.

xd4 on the 13th move isn't great for it puts a free bishop for the opponent to take, instead, you could have gone on c3, putting even more pressure onto the already threatened knight.

I do indeed like your enthusiasm to continuously check the opposing king, which further allows you to send your pieces up.

The inevitable queen trade did occur, with you having a slight disadvantage, with the opponents having a better piece structure and you being quite underdeveloped.

You did miss the opportunity of Rxg7, taking the free pawn(s). You had also missed Rd1, threatening to eliminate the bishop who would have no protection and no way of moving, (due to how the king would be checked. However, you did find this move, presumably forcing a resignation.

Well done einWWe, thank you for the post!

Here's another game:

Thank you ANotableOpponent, here is the game:

Also you can post on mobile but I do not know how it works.

Should I review it for you?

Oh what the heck I'll review it for you... 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

The opening was generally normal, Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotrč, Main Line, Lasker Variation, even though the name isn’t really as easily pronounced 😂. In this opening, you push your opponents pieces back to the left and right sides of the board, making them weak and vulnerable. This is exactly what white does which allows him to gain a positional advantage. However, it is not over, for white, in this case, you, and soon, your opponent makes an inaccuracy.

While Be2 isn’t that bad for white, it is an inaccuracy because it blocks the white queen from developing, whereas Bc4 is generally the best move, for it develops the bishop in a more thorough manner and doesn’t block the queen as well as allowing the king to castle.

Your follow-up of Qb6 is decent; however, you could have Nbd7 and further develop all of your pieces AND allow the king to castle (you usually want to castle on the same sides though for the end game).

Good job with the queen trade and finding the miss of the opponents pawn, you did that trade because you were more developed than white, good thinking!

I do not know why white didn’t make a trade of equal pieces instead of taking a knight with a bishop… that is an inaccurate move to make. For after you take the bishop with the knight, they could have pushed you with the pawn…

Also, nice with the castling on the same side with the opponent, usually king side castling is the one that I prefer but that is an opinion.

Another inaccurate move your opponent made was a3… trying to kick the bishop eventually, yet it would be inevitable due to your Rad8 move pushing the line down the center, so the best white move is d7, threatening the b7 pawn and the eventual push of your rook…

E5 is not that great on your part, for the white side WILL make a rook line, and you need to see that in the moment and push with Kf7. But it’s ok, you are still winning.

Sorry, but I do love a good pawn push and e4 is perfect.

You begin to lose the advantage you made throughout the midgame, but it’s ok. You can still win.

You do lose a rook in a trade, however, the pawn push you make is okay, yet the computer says it isn’t, for you should move the bishop out of the rook’s sight. I see no problem with this move but the computer says otherwise.

I would say that when your opponent blunders, the game ends and you win.

On move 48, you should’ve defended the pawn from the king’s WRATH on the top by Kf4.

You had immediately won when the opponent blundered the rook, which is a great lesson, NEVER MAKE ANY KIND OF UNFAIR TRADES NEAR THE ENDGAME.

P.S. You missed mate by one square on move 57 with Qee4#...

In some ways, this is a beginner game, in the sense that the player who won got away with breaking the principle of rapid piece development in the opening: https://youtu.be/Rxo-FrAZNxE?si=2g9mwDML6b3xndUO