A murky club game Amateur vs. Master

[Event "Main Line CC fun"]

[Site "Gladwyne, PA"]

[Date "2012.07.10"]

[Round "NA"]

[White "Sosenko, David"]

[Black "Heisman, Dan"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "B50"]

[WhiteElo "1500"]

[BlackElo "2200"]

[Annotator ",Dan Heisman"]

[PlyCount "78"]

[TimeLimit "G/70; d/5"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Be2 Nc6 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 g6 6. Bg5 Bg7 7. O-O h6 8. Be3 O-O 9. Re1 Rb8 10. h3 b5 11. Qc1 Kh7 12. Nbd2 a5 13. Rb1e5 14. Nf1 Be6 15. Ra1 Qe7 16. N1h2 d5 17. Qc2 Rfc8 18. Nf1 Nd4 19. Qb1 Nxe2+ 20. Rxe2 dxe4 21. dxe4 Nh5 22. Qc1 g5 23. N1h2 Rd8 24. Ng4 Nf4  25. Bxf4cexf4 26. Qc2 Bc4 27. Ree1 h5 28. Ngh2 Bd3 29. Qc1 Bh6 30. b3 Rg8 31. g4? fxg3 32. fxg3 g4 33. Qd1 gxf3 34. Qxd3 Rxg3+ 35. Kh1 Rd8 36. Qf1 Qh4 37. Qf2 Rd2 38. Qxc5 Rxh2+ 39. Kxh2 Qxh3# 0-1

Why just game score?  I'm not gonna waste my time going over this when you could have put it in a viewer

Thanks Shepi appreciate it

Had to write it in manually because of a few missing spaces. I haven't found any kind of programming/computer language, even one as simple as pgn codes, that doesn't have an extremely annoying syntax system 

Seems like white just played without a plan!  h3? b5!  just hands black the init!  Ra1 and Nh2 white is just flailing about.

Thanks also, Shepi. 2200ismygoal: I appreciate your feedback, but wouldn't it have been more constructive if you had shown me (or directed me by link) on how to put the game in a viewer, instead of complaining? I am relatively new to chess.com and, until just now when I read your post, did not know that is possible. So your comment "you could have put it in a viewer" is technically correct but assumes something that was not correct.

I was not trying to be impolite or "wasting your time". If all new people are greeted by "Why waste my time?" then they are less likely to return. My full-time job has been chess since 1996, helping people learn, so I am a little sensitive to giving people positive posts.

And you are right: White is not an extremely strong player and admittedly was flailing about. However, our game's first dozen moves or so turned out to be  strong resemblance to the game Ponomariov-Caruano a few days later at Dortmund! So in that sense White did not play so badly - Incidentally, Houdini 2 rates 10.h3 the best move in the position  .

Dan Heinsman, I apologize on behalf of 2200ismygoal. He probably does not know you are new here, and are unfamiliar with some chess.com's settings. I, on the other hand, is very happy you have decided to come on chess.com. I am very grateful of you to join this site, I have learned a lot from your previous lessons, and hope you continue teaching in the future!

Welcome to chess.com.

I was looking for murkiness in this game and didn't find any.

The annotation of ? against 31.g4 was a bit generous.

Thanks! Much appreciated. BTW, where can I read about how to put a game in the viewer for this forum? 

I'm not sure where you can read about it, but here's how:

1. Click this button to insert a diagram: 

2. Chose whether to insert a diagram, game, or puzzle in the new window that will open.

3. Chose whether to type in a pgn, use a fen string for the starting position, or set up the initial position and make the moves manually.

You can just experiment from there.

or you can see it here, step by step

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/how-do-i-make-a-chess-diagram-with-moves-appear-in-a-post

welcome to chess.com Dan! As a note, because of the free aspect of the site, which has its pros and cons, One of the cons being a higher number of trolls who make just annoying comments.

Nice game Dan. IMO a good example of what happens when 1 player plays scared . I wonder if when you annotate the game if you could post what your thoughts were and where you played the person a bit more (ie ok its complicated but Ill beat this person there) 

move 14 for white seems critical.

Modified the comments a bit while not so distracted (Note to self: watching movies with the kid and having a rum and coke are not beneficial for accuracy)

Hmm, white can play 14.d4.  And 19...Nxe2+ doesn't win a a piece  ??

you want to play 14. d4 with black being better developed your choice. has to be good for black . 

19 Nxe2 doesnt win a piece oops what i get for doing notes while watching the kid. game is still over. white just squirms and wiggles but is dead

 I am shocked how often players 'blink' , backdown and play a safe or "normal" move when faced with a move that is challenging. this leads to passive positions and situations where the path to maintain the balance is  narrow. everything becomes a bad choice.

KCO (and others) thanks!

I can't see why 14.d4 is good for Black...to me it seems the obvious move.