Ah, I misunderstood, apologies OP.
Btw, looking at your games I think maybe you are playing too fast, playing longer games might help you think about each move a little more.
Good luck !
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Apr 9, 2019
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#103
quentle wrote:
Ah, I misunderstood, apologies OP.
Btw, looking at your games I think maybe you are playing too fast, playing longer games might help you think about each move a little more.
Good luck !
You're definitely right about this, and it's giving me bad habits. Instead of trying to play the best move I'm moving pieces around trying to attack something and not lose lol.
Apr 9, 2019
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#104
Here's another very challenging game vs an 830 rated player. I'm definitely getting back into the form I had when I was 975 rated, but I feel like I'm playing to a high standard and still only edging out victories against low-rated players. Am I just missing obvious blunders by the other side? I have the black pieces here.
Apr 9, 2019
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#105
Why do you play so many games? Play few 15|10 games and analyze them. You seem like chasing after a rating and not improving your chess.
Apr 9, 2019
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#106
kthprog schreef:
Here's another very challenging game vs an 830 rated player. I'm definitely getting back into the form I had when I was 975 rated, but I feel like I'm playing to a high standard and still only edging out victories against low-rated players. Am I just missing obvious blunders by the other side? I have the black pieces here.
Overall you played fine and could have won by a landslide. I dont know what happend in the end, maybe you had little time left or was just over confident? Overall the game might have felt hard cause he was trying to presure hard. But in the end you remained calm and he was left with a position he couldnt defend cause he pushed out so much. Some moves you still have to work on like 7. ..Bg4, it seems nice to attack the Queen but if you had tought about it for a moment, you would have seen what his response would have been.
Apr 9, 2019
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#107
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
kthprog schreef:
Here's another very challenging game vs an 830 rated player. I'm definitely getting back into the form I had when I was 975 rated, but I feel like I'm playing to a high standard and still only edging out victories against low-rated players. Am I just missing obvious blunders by the other side? I have the black pieces here.
Overall you played fine and could have won by a landslide. I dont know what happend in the end, maybe you had little time left or was just over confident? Overall the game might have felt hard cause he was trying to presure hard. But in the end you remained calm and he was left with a position he couldnt defend cause he pushed out so much. Some moves you still have to work on like 7. ..Bg4, it seems nice to attack the Queen but if you had tought about it for a moment, you would have seen what his response would have been.
That move was intentional. It was just to get tempo to move my bishop to a good spot. I think I was overconfident and I should've simply slowly continued hacking away at his defenses. I thought if I opened up the kingside I could win easily with my queen and rook. I was both right and wrong lol it wasn't very easy.
Apr 9, 2019
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#108
You played ok here, the opponent made some blunders so you were never under much pressure, 28 Qxa7 you missed, but anyone can do that, just need to be disciplined and check every possible move when someone dumps a piece in the middle of the board. 31 ... Bxg2 was a bit unnecessary too, hard to explain that !
Do you use the analyze feature and look at your blunders ?
Apr 9, 2019
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#109
quentle wrote:
You played ok here, the opponent made some blunders so you were never under much pressure, 28 Qxa7 you missed, but anyone can do that, just need to be disciplined and check every possible move when someone dumps a piece in the middle of the board. 31 ... Bxg2 was a bit unnecessary too, hard to explain that !
Do you use the analyze feature and look at your blunders ?
I felt like with his queen on my side of the board and my king poorly defended that I needed to open up his kingside to win. It was probably not the best move.
I did not but I'm going to. I only made a couple and I think I know what both of them are (allowing queen to take my rook and sacrificing my bishop).
Apr 9, 2019
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#110
kthprog schreef:
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
kthprog schreef:
Here's another very challenging game vs an 830 rated player. I'm definitely getting back into the form I had when I was 975 rated, but I feel like I'm playing to a high standard and still only edging out victories against low-rated players. Am I just missing obvious blunders by the other side? I have the black pieces here.
Overall you played fine and could have won by a landslide. I dont know what happend in the end, maybe you had little time left or was just over confident? Overall the game might have felt hard cause he was trying to presure hard. But in the end you remained calm and he was left with a position he couldnt defend cause he pushed out so much. Some moves you still have to work on like 7. ..Bg4, it seems nice to attack the Queen but if you had tought about it for a moment, you would have seen what his response would have been.
That move was intentional. It was just to get tempo to move my bishop to a good spot. I think I was overconfident and I should've simply slowly continued hacking away at his defenses. I thought if I opened up the kingside I could win easily with my queen and rook. I was both right and wrong lol it wasn't very easy.
Yes it seems a natural move, if you considered his possible response you would have quickly seen 8.f3 coming, and now your bishop is in a bad position and you have lost time. So just thinking ahead about his response would have shown you that Bg4 was wrong.
Apr 9, 2019
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#111
Its worth doing after every game, even ones you win. It helps you learn when you tend to make really bad moves, and what sort of mistakes you make. Most games have a 'blunder' or two, if not, check out the 'mistakes' as well.
Apr 9, 2019
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#112
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
kthprog schreef:
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
kthprog schreef:
Here's another very challenging game vs an 830 rated player. I'm definitely getting back into the form I had when I was 975 rated, but I feel like I'm playing to a high standard and still only edging out victories against low-rated players. Am I just missing obvious blunders by the other side? I have the black pieces here.
Overall you played fine and could have won by a landslide. I dont know what happend in the end, maybe you had little time left or was just over confident? Overall the game might have felt hard cause he was trying to presure hard. But in the end you remained calm and he was left with a position he couldnt defend cause he pushed out so much. Some moves you still have to work on like 7. ..Bg4, it seems nice to attack the Queen but if you had tought about it for a moment, you would have seen what his response would have been.
That move was intentional. It was just to get tempo to move my bishop to a good spot. I think I was overconfident and I should've simply slowly continued hacking away at his defenses. I thought if I opened up the kingside I could win easily with my queen and rook. I was both right and wrong lol it wasn't very easy.
Yes it seems a natural move, if you considered his possible response you would have quickly seen 8.f3 coming, and now your bishop is in a bad position and you have lost time. So just thinking ahead about his response would have shown you that Bg4 was wrong.
That's what I'm saying. I knew f3 was coming and that was fine. My bishop was better where it ended than where it was. And if he attacked it again I could simply move it to g6 which is an even better square. Looking back, e6 may have been a more active square for it, without him getting to move a pawn out.
Apr 9, 2019
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#114
quentle schreef:
I agree with you here OP, Bg4 is alright !
How so? after Bh5 he is just in bas position against the edge of the board blocked by pawns. indeed e6 seems to be a better spot for the bishop.
Apr 9, 2019
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#115
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
quentle schreef:
I agree with you here OP, Bg4 is alright !
How so? after Bh5 he is just in bas position against the edge of the board blocked by pawns. indeed e6 seems to be a better spot for the bishop.
If the pawn in the center ever moves or is taken, I'd have a tactic of a revealed attack on the rook, which the other player is unlikely to notice. It will also control a lot more squares from there.
Apr 9, 2019
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#117
kthprog schreef:
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
quentle schreef:
I agree with you here OP, Bg4 is alright !
How so? after Bh5 he is just in bas position against the edge of the board blocked by pawns. indeed e6 seems to be a better spot for the bishop.
If the pawn in the center ever moves or is taken, I'd have a tactic of a revealed attack on the rook, which the other player is unlikely to notice. It will also control a lot more squares from there.
I wouldn't consider a very situational reveal that is unlikely to ever happen a good reason to pick this position. Just look at the rest of the game and see how long it takes before your bishop is participating again.
Apr 9, 2019
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#118
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
kthprog schreef:
kaspervanderlocht wrote:
quentle schreef:
I agree with you here OP, Bg4 is alright !
How so? after Bh5 he is just in bas position against the edge of the board blocked by pawns. indeed e6 seems to be a better spot for the bishop.
If the pawn in the center ever moves or is taken, I'd have a tactic of a revealed attack on the rook, which the other player is unlikely to notice. It will also control a lot more squares from there.
I wouldn't consider a very situational reveal that is unlikely to ever happen a good reason to pick this position. Just look at the rest of the game and see how long it takes before your bishop is participating again.
True, it's a lesson for the future.
Game in post #119
Took you until move 15 to realise that the e4 pawn is hanging (it was hanging for several of the turns before and in some of them it was safe to capture that pawn).
33...d2# was just...weird and unexpected. Well done!
Apr 9, 2019
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#120
eric0022 wrote:
Game in post #119
Took you until move 15 to realise that the e4 pawn is hanging (it was hanging for several of the turns before and in some of them it was safe to capture that pawn).
33...d2# was just...weird and unexpected. Well done!
I was waiting until I finished developing to take the pawn, since a lot of users here have said I should develop more instead of pushing my pieces. It was both though, for a few moves I missed it, for a few I just didn't want to take it yet lol.
And thank you lol.
OP, did you say you have 2 accounts ? As I understand it, that is not permitted on chess.com
He said that he has accounts on different sites. Not multiple accounts on the same site.