Am I analyzing well? (Input needed please)

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here's a game that I lost horribly so I took to analyzing it myself.

Am I analyzing correctly?

 

Avatar of planeden

I like to add comments to what i was thinking when i made certain moves. It seems to help me, especially if i go back and look at it again later.  In fact, I try to make notes on every move. 

Avatar of schtoonkmeyer

Instead of 8...Qf6 you could have played Bxf2+. Assuming Kxf2 you could play Qf6 winning the Knight and keeping opponent ftom castling.

Avatar of backyardstar
schtoonkmeyer wrote:

Instead of 8...Qf6 you could have played Bxf2+. Assuming Kxf2 you could play Qf6 winning the Knight and keeping opponent ftom castling.


Nf3 might screw up that plan a little.

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sure would - I'll go back to lurking for another decade or so.

Avatar of Ben_Dubuque

heres a something i do sometimes, i put my personal notes in the chat box so that my opponent can tell me if my plan is realy unstopable, so that maybe he can keep me grounded in reality oh heres the link to one of my games im doing that in dont post any help here, but comment in the comment box so after the game i can review what you all have said and see what youre opinions are.

 

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=45254331

 

enjoy

 

Peace

Avatar of furtivamente

I end up emphasizing on open files a lot here. Not the best annotation you can get though.

Just a note, if you want to keep a bishop pair, get the position to open up. This will increase your advantage since bishops have long range.

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Furtive, thank you for your help. I believe i understand more about the point of analysis a little more now. Would anyone care to post their own analyzed games so I may learn a few more ideas?

Avatar of furtivamente

You can try finding annotated games in the internet, there are quite a lot of them. And many of those games are annotated by titled players, so might give you more ideas. Alternatively you can read analysis in chess books. I'd suggest you find those that explain narratively, and not only give variations, since that way you still have to figure out the ideas behind each move yourself (which is learning process also, though it will be harder. I'm too lazy to think when I read :p)

Avatar of khpa21

Some of your question marks are misplaced. There were three major errors Black made in the game, 7...Qxc6, 13...g6(allows 14. c3), and 20...Re5. Nothing else deserves even one. Oh and look back at your variations, you'll find some hung pieces.

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ponnupazoozu wrote:
schtoonkmeyer wrote:

sure would - I'll go back to lurking for another decade or so.


 not really 8.., Bxf2 is still good followed by Qb6+ and Qxb7 and you will win your material or more back with an attack.  but 8. .. Qb6 is better I feel.

sometimes analysis has to go deeper - don't give up so soon ;-)


Care to explain this please?

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sometimes analysis has to go deeper - don't give up so soon ;-)

This here-- would you care to explain it?

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By the way, 8...Bxf2+ would've been better met by 9. Kf1 in view of ponnupazoozu's nice, counter-intuitive idea. 9...Qc5 would be necessary to keep from losing a piece, and then 10. Nf3 is unclear to me.

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and I wonder why I keep overlooking it. Maybe some damage control with 10. Qf3 Qxe5 11. Kxf2 and oh wait ...Qxb2 smh. You know what, it just occurred to me that Bg5-xf6 is a terrible idea by White. In fact, why do I try to describe it with words? Hmmm, maybe 9. Ke2 to avoid discovered checks thereby making 10. d4 against 9...Qf6 possible? It's not like ...Qc5-e3+ is devastating or even hurts White in any way.

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b2 again?? Well, at least there white has Nc4. Can the big center compensate for the 2N's vs. 2B's disadvantage and the badly placed king on e2? I dunno.

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You're right, maybe I'll come up with a more worthy reply when I'm tired. Also could somebody please un-hijack this thread?