Help me analyze this!

Ill try this in three posts opening middle ending.

First opening

In the first ten moves you developed very passively against an opponent going for space. 

Move

4. For example G6 Signals Bishop to g7. But due to knight in front of it there is no immediate threat.

5. player develops positional space and protects against g4 outpost with h5 support from your side. You then responded with bishop move which is correct given previous move but those two moves loose tempo with no gain because you have to consider repositioning your knight.

8. depends on what you want to do with your knights. This is another signaling move that unless completely blocked by your opponent requires you to make another pawn move on the following move while your pieces are not all developed.

I think at this position the knight would have been clearly better developed to e7 instead of f6. this would have given you better control in center and then allowed your pawn moves to gain space on queenside.

10. move with queen looks like your going to gain a pawn but typical defense is to move king up like he did. The resulting position at this point is he has clear space advantage and you don't seem to have a clear plan at this point.

Middle was interesting.

11. i like knight to b4 possibly better. tricky to kick in time.

14. your knight is not that strong because his knight is on the move. 

15. Why move pawn at all? he wants to open up king side your strength is on queen side so you should be playing there. 

16. He just kicked your strong knight.

19. king is in good shape where can you move your knights? And black bishop is bad due to your own piece.

23. I Don't like moving it. He should now trade off rooks in the corner due to it.

End Game. 

I should have looked at this part first. Yeah his next move is supper bad. He gave way to much power to that rook and sacrificed a pawn for nothing. Should have traded off and then had his queen threatening your knight. Goo work with that tactic. After that he just gave up. Pretty cool.

A couple more like that and you'll be ready to play the pros.

thanks to you both!

gud!!

Really nice game. I am suprised your rating is so low.

Maybe small improvements, but nothing really(h5? and not sure what you want to wanted with e5). Btw about d6 it theory it might get weak on the long term, but the pawn isn't weak until it is threaten(no pieces are threaten it for some time) and activity, controlling the  game is far more important.

Nice game, mott

The Rook on the second rank really gave some trouble there.

Good game, there. We must play again soon, you're still 1 up on me grrr....

hahaha tony, nice.

and thanks everyone! i'm working on the ranking :)

I think the most instructive thing you can do with this game is put yourself in White's place and figure out all the various ways he went wrong.

Everyone has bad days, your opponent clearly had a bad one here. He lost his way badly -- from move 14 on I don't think he played a single good move, seriously. It was just one bad idea after another.

I thought you prosecuted your advantage after move 24 with nice tactics. 

But I'd focus on the moves between 14 and 24. And put yourself in White's shoes...

At move 14... it's an interesting position... What's the correct plan here? Is anyone ahead? Where do each sides best winning chances lie? How to proceed?

White's play oddly enough, reveals the answer... he shows what not to do: 

White played 14.Ng1?  Can that be right? He gives up his N's developed position to defend h3? What's he doing? Is your threat against h3 that strong that he must defend like this? Considering this makes the position clearer IMO: He's pushed his Kingside pawns aggressively and castled Kingside -- how can passively defending this already compromised position make sense? ...Now I see: everything about his postion says he should play aggressively in the center and on the kingside. Instead he loses heart and starts passively defending! I don't know if the position is objectively hopeless for White after 14.Ng1, but his approach to the position at this point is IMO completely losing.

If you look at the remainder of the game, you'll see he plays his game in fear of opening up the Kingside and because of this he fails to generate a scintilla of counterplay. You go along with it, you play as if you have a strong initiative on the Kingside, and he goes with it too.  I mean it's ironic... "correct" play from you would probably have encouraged him to find his correct play and you might have lost... but what I think were some wrongheaded moves on your part were aggressive enough to keep him in his fatally passive/defensive approach to the game. 

In this light, I thought your 15...e6?! was objectively bad... You say you are eyeing the h3-c8 diagonal. I don't see how this helps control that diagonal at all. This is your, "I've got a Kingside attack! Charge!" mentality that you have here. I swear I think it's flawed, but your opponent is convinced!

I think he should welcome the Kingside opening up and slug it out with you playing 16.f5!? now he starts ripping up your king's protection. And the fight is on.

I could go on, but I'm no master and half of what I say usually gets tactically refuted...(lol!) but in all honestly I thought both sides were pretty fishy between moves 14 and 24.   You played a bad plan (kingside attack) and he fails to refute it with active countermeasures of his own.

I think he looked at your rating and said: "if I just hang back and wait, this guy's gonna screw up and I'll win material and get him."

But hanging back was the exact wrong strategy for the position for White -- the mistakes you were making were in your strategy IMO, rather than tactical blunders.  

I think the main lesson from this game is: Here's how to lose to a lower-rated player: underestimate them and expect them to beat themselves without actually creating enough pressure to cause them problems.

*edit* Hey Rooperi -- I just noticed you are the "?" in game above. I realize my criticism of your play here could be seen as pretty harsh! No offense intended! If If I have a lot to say about the error of overly and unnecessarily passive play, it's because I'm so very familiar with it from my own passive play. It's my default setting and I constantly struggle with it.

**re-edit** OOOPs. Sorry again Rooperi, no that's not your game, I misunderstood! Okay, I apologize again... I think I'll quit now, quit while I'm behind....

ahahaha thanks a lot for the analysis.  and no, you're exactly right: i've been forced to play out dead drawn positions (see the game where i'm king versus exactatude's KP, and i have the opposition) because i'm expected to mess up.

gives me practice, i suppose.

i would have played 11.g4