You played super solid and logical moves in the opening and kept up the good work in the middle game. Basicly you just outplayed your opponent, very well done both strategially and tacticly.
Beat 1500+ (I'm under 900) ELO. What do you think?
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The 1500 basically handed it to you. At move 8 I immediately thought, "White is somewhat passive, though that queen is well centralized and with no knight to chase her seems like a somewhat permanent advantage and the only way to chase her is to create needless positional concessions. Maybe Be2,0-0,Re1,and Bf1 with a reversed Philidor like position with the idea of restraining and pressuring the e5 pawn?" Then white plays the anti-positional c4? which does nothing but weaken d3 and d4 and white really can't make use of the d5 square the c4 watches.
Also as the game itself showed the queen was well placed on d6 anyway since it could generate tactical threats by jumping to g6.
5.Bd2?! was simply cocky. This bishop isn't that well placed on d2 whereas other pieces need priority. The darksquared bishop is the one where you usually wait until further developments (is it best on g5, f4, e3, or even d2? Whereas you usually know what to do with the other pieces) unless you're playing a Queen's Indian or Nimzo-Larsen setup. Even then you have some variations with ...Ba6 instead of ...Bb7. You handled your queen's bishop much better than him, wasting no time exploiting the mate threat to win the exchange.
It also goes without saying that 6.Nxd5? is bad. Yes the queen is usually not well placed in the center, but that's usually because a queen's knight can gain a tempo chasing her away! No knight, no real danger.
9.a3? simply wastes time.
10...Qg6!! this was an excellent move, and oddly enough castling was his best! 11.Bc3,Rd8 12.Qc2,Bf5 and the pressure against d3 is too much. Now that you forced him to move his knight back with 12.Ne1 to cover g2 you have a strong initiative as he has to dedicate resources to defending.
12.Ne1 was better, 12.g3?! loses the exchange by force.
12...f5! are you sure you're really 900? Even 1400's and maybe even 1600's I know would take the exchange without even thinking about it. And I don't mean over the Internet either but USCF 1400-1600's. Maybe even some experts would take the exchange for the stable material advantage. You recognize that the Bh3 is far more active than the Rf1 and therefore use the time to build up an attack. Excellent job!
15...Rad8!! acknowledging that the Nf3 can't go anywhere and therefore improving your piece activity before taking the piece!
20.Qc4?? very careless even for your opponent. You exploited the situation nicely and got that queen off. After being down a queen and seeing that he'd be mated in seven moves your opponent resigned.
He could have but his bishop was far more active than the rook while ...f5! allowed 13.Re1,e4! winning an important defending piece instead of merely the exchange. If 13.Bc3 giving the knight an escape square then Bxf1. White's Bd2 rather gets in the way and black exploited it nicely.
Still, winning the exchange was a good idea but why do so when he can press for even more?
The 1500 played a really bad game, you were decent, result=win 
shockinn wrote:
Awful game.
It is a 3-minute game after all. For a 900ish player way above average level of play and you can't really disagree if you have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
jauhin wrote:
shockinn wrote:
Awful game.
It is a 3-minute game after all. For a 900ish player way above average level of play and you can't really disagree if you have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
Hes an attention seeker, look at the comments on his page.
Thanks mate Luft!
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
At move 8 I immediately thought, "White is somewhat passive, though that queen is well centralized and with no knight to chase her seems like a somewhat permanent advantage and the only way to chase her is to create needless positional concessions. Maybe Be2,0-0,Re1,and Bf1 with a reversed Philidor like position with the idea of restraining and pressuring the e5 pawn?"
That's quite a long immediate thought.
Sorry, but a 900 player playing f5! is not believable.
mosai wrote:
Sorry, but a 900 player playing f5! is not believable.
Or Rad8.
No it isn't - It's easy enough to see I didn't need to take the rook and control of center would of been a far better positional advantage leading up to victory!
Sep 19, 2014
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In regards to the first game posted,you won, so be definition you did better than your opponent.A 560+ ratings upset is a bit uncommon,but not rare.Whites position is close to hopeless before the huge discovery blunder,so black would probably win even without the losing exchange.That being said,you simply outplayed your opponent when it really mattered,the credit goes to you.
W-Luke wrote:
of course but it's too complex for a 900. Unless you just joined the site and you're underated but that's not the case here (you joined in December). Thing is if you managed to make those moves f5 and Rd8 here then why is your rating still 900 after 9 months, it just don't add up.
1. I am under-rated.
2. Sometimes I see really good moves just by looking at the board.
3. Other times I just get lucky.
4. I don't believe it's too hard at all.
5. o.o
Blockah wrote:
W-Luke wrote:
of course but it's too complex for a 900. Unless you just joined the site and you're underated but that's not the case here (you joined in December). Thing is if you managed to make those moves f5 and Rd8 here then why is your rating still 900 after 9 months, it just don't add up.
1. I am under-rated.
2. Sometimes I see really good moves just by looking at the board.
3. Other times I just get lucky.
4. I don't believe it's too hard at all.
5. o.o
Just accept the fact that some people only contribute negative things.
True.
Blockah wrote:
No it isn't - It's easy enough to see I didn't need to take the rook and control of center would of been a far better positional advantage leading up to victory!
No offence but I thought you just forgot the hanging rook and still kind a do. We are talking about blitz after all. If you are speaking the truth, kudos to you. I'd take my exchange and run, it is still winning and practical.
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=918511416
What do you think? Did I do alright? 3 Minute Round!