So yeah heres the game i really am curios how i did in your guys' eyes.
Did i get lucky or did i make the right moves?
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I think you had the opportunity to trap and take White's queen early in the game.
Jul 28, 2011
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"I let him have the rook because I knew id then be up a knight." - Bad idea. Wouldn't you rather be up a rook than a knight? And it really lets his queen attack your king for a long time. By the time you get your king safe he's roughly even with you again.
yeah i agree looking at the game i did miss the opurtunity to get the queen also the being up a night i find in all my games i play alot better wit han extra knight then with an extra rook. also giving that i take yet another peice off the board and imo i find the knight to be the deadliest piece.
No offense but you got lucky....
4. Bh6...5.Bg7: There's no need for this sequence. You should just move your Bishop to g7 in the first place. The key to a good opening is to get your pieces to optimal starting squares in the fewest moves possible. It looks sexy to attack the queen but the queen was not threatening anything where it was so there was no need to move it.
6...c6: probably better to develop the Knight here. You are moving a lot of pawns in the opening. It is better to develop pawns minimally in the opening and develop minor pieces first.
7...b5: With this move you create a backwards pawn on c6 which is a positional weakness that you will have to protect throughout the game. Again, try to develop minor pieces rather than pawns in the opening. Once you move a pawn you can never take it back so be careful with how you set your pawn structure.
8...a5: In the first 8 moves you have moved 6 pawns. Meanwhile three of your four minor pieces are undeveloped. Develop your minor pieces first and then advance your pawns.
9...Bd7: This Bishop is doing very little in this position other than protecting that pawn. The bishop is a long range weapon that does not want to be blocked behind pawns. This is a "Bad Bishop". Try to put your Bishops on open diagonals where they can have influence over the maximum number of squares.
10...Na6: The edge of the board is the worst place to develop a Knight. "Knights on the rim are grim." You want to develop your knights towards the center where they have the maximum effect which is why your earlier move of the pawn to c6 was suspect. c6 is the best place to put that Knight but once your pawn is there the Knight is restricted in where it can develop.
Skipping a bunch of tactical moves....
20.Ng5 would have checkmated your king.
22.Qh6+ Kf7 23.Ng5+ Ke8 Qh8++ would have been a forced mate on your king
32...Nxa2 was not a good sacrifice. The only reason it worked out was because your opponent made some bad moves after that. He could have extracted his bishop and taken out your pawns and you would have gotten nothing in the sacrifice.
I know that this was a negative review. If you just learn some of the basic opening techniques you will raise your rating by 3-400 points easy. Keep up the good work
id rather have constructive criticsim thats the truth rather then uplifting ones that are lies, and i do ussually play bettar then this im just dead tired. Can you atleast give me what i did right? as for the openings i do know them i just didnt know what to do with whites horrible opening.
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Can you atleast give me what i did right?
One blunder was White's move 37.Ne5. The position at this point in the game was more complicated than White simply choosing which minor piece to save. A better move would have been 37.Bxb3, which would have mitigated your imminent pawn promotion threat on the queenside. You have to take into consideration White's overwhelming pawn majority at this point in the game. Using the Bishop to prevent a pawn promotion makes sense because White would still be ahead in material and possesses pawn promotion threats of his own. Your next four moves (38 to 40) all took advantage of 37.Ne5 and were perfect as far as I can tell.