did i do good at this game
Sort:
Woooo, misread who was playing... thought that Cloy played the game and I was like wtf? rating 1900 played that? hehehe me so silly.
Arrowhead, you were out played, and made a few blunders.
1-4. seems like sound development... but your king is exposed by a queenside attack and something should be done to address this.. instead you go-
5.d5 confused me- the pawn wasn't under any real threat at this point and moving it gave up tempo and also over extended centre pawn formation. I think you were hoping your opponent made a mistake here instead of thinking what his best options would be.
6.b4 gives away a pawn and better would have been blocking with your bishop forcing the queen back (or the bishop up to support.. either way you wouldn't have lost a pawn.
7-8. has you drop another pawn and lose any grip you had on the centre
9.Nh3 ... this square is not often the best place for your knight. better would have probably been Nf3 if you were intent on moving this knight. which of course would have stopped Qe5+
By move 10. You are down 2 pawns and a rook... your knight on d2 is pinned your knight on h3 isn't doing anything, your black bishop is pinned to your queen, your white bishop is stuck protecting your king.
11.0-0 unpins your knight but without any position and being down in material makes this a game of praying for blunders by your opponent.
That is my quick look at the game...
What were ratings?
Jun 24, 2008
0
#4
You made too many pawn moves in the opening. 6. b4 just gave up a pawn for no reason. Better would be to develop a minor piece.
9. Nh3 isn't the best choice because it attacks less squares on the side. It's too far to control the center like Nf3.
10. Qd2 would've saved your rook by pinning the black queen to the black king.
On move 18 you had a discovered attack. 18. Bh7+ would win you a queen. Instead you played g4, weakening the defense around your king.
It looks like things slowly fell apart from there.
On move 14, you could have played 14. Qc2, this threatens Qh7 checkmate and also Bb2 trapping the black queen. This should turn out well since you make two threats at once.
Jun 24, 2008
0
#6
Loomis wrote: On move 14, you could have played 14. Qc2, this threatens Qh7 checkmate and also Bb2 trapping the black queen. This should turn out well since you make two threats at once.
Ooh, nice.
Arrowhead13, it seems you had the right ideas with the bishops, but somewhere along the way the plans slipped away.
i played white. could i have played better?
thaanks for any help.