Can you help me analyze this game?

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DHady

Here is a game I played the other night. I won this one pretty handily but when I submitted the game for analysis it appeared to be rife with errors and blunders by myself and my opponent. I didn't go over the variations the engine analysis offered; I merely just observed the percentages of bad moves and etc. Besides it offered a variation at like move 4-5 anyway because it did not agree with me not doing Nxe5. I instead tried a sort of fried liver attack since I learned it the other day and was presented with an oppurtunity to try it out. I'd classify myself as a beginner considering I make bonehead moves a lot and have no idea on how to start analyzing games for myself. I am however committed to improving my game and being able to pass along newly learned skills to my friends who also enjoy chess (but not quite as much as I  ;-p) This is the first time I've actually gone through a game and made notes. Any tips, criticism, guidance, advice, verbal thrashing, or anything is welcomed!

Timmy62

I liked 4.b4, but it doesnt seem you understood the purpose of the move since you follow up with 6.Ng5? The whole idea was to build a pawn center with d4 was it not?

After 6.Ng5 I believe black can play 6...d5 or castle and get a good game. Blacks response was very bad however.

The rest of the game is just a tactical skirmish, computer analysis will probobly be more useful, but overall I think you do well in getting your pieces into play, and making them work together, even though your opononent was very helpfull in getting himeslf into trouble.

DHady

I messed up on my commentary lol sorry. I'm learning how to use that analysis tool on this site. I did b4 in order to try and transpose to Evans Gambit which is 1. e4 e5 2. nf3 nc6 3. bc4 bc5 4. b4 bxb4 5. c3...He more or less played into it. But then I got the idea to attack with my knight on g5 because I saw a video on the fried liver attack. I may have messed up severely trying it but I felt as though I had an advantage seeing that my pieces had more potential to develop than his. 

Timmy62

The fried liver attacks works because black cant castle when you play Ng5 so he cant really defend f7 in a traditional way, but here f7 can be protected through castling, d5 also is much stronger here because white dont get a tempo on the c6 knight. I like the way you played though, it looks like you have talent for the game. Very nice mate, it could be used for a puzzle.

DHady

Does anyone else have anything to contribute? I appreciate your time and consideration.

DHady

Thank you Timmy62. I just started playing fairly heavily recently. I got tired of getting my butt handed to me time after time again so I've been studying tactics using the tactics trainer, CM11 tutorials, and I bought a couple books on amazon Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge by Averbakh and Logical Chess by Irving Chernev. I've also worked through many of the problems in Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess.