Hey everyone! I'm a Master willing to help analyze players' games for free. Is anyone interested?

(I hope this is the right forum for this - feel free to move it if not!)

I'm starting an ambitious new project at chesspathways.com.  I'm working on developing a comprehensive, free "Getting started" chess course (first 3 videos already posted!), and performing game analysis for anyone who's interested!

Feel free to post any games you would like me to analyze here, or send them to me through the ChessPathways website! I'll get to as many as I can.  Before posting, a couple considerations:

-Games played at longer time controls are better! The quality of these games tend to be higher and less likely to be decided by simple blunders. If you did blunder in a longer game, at least we can look beyond the reason of "Oh, it was time trouble" and really investigate what mental patterns were responsible for the blunder and how to avoid it in the future!

-Please post your thoughts about the game if you can! The more insight I have into the thought process of the player, the better insight I can provide.

Thanks!

i would resign too if im playing black. With white having an extra piece and that pawn at f6 would mean black needs to baby sit that g7 with the only means possible, the queen. i wont waste time defending that one.

Please analyze this game.

No. He was not in time pressure.

Your first questions have been answered

Care to share your thoughts on it first? Giving as much detail as possible about your thought process during the game will help people provide better analysis for you. What were you thinking about on specific moves? What were the hardest decisions for you?

also, what was the time control? AnalyIng blitz games doesn’t produce the best results

Chess.com free analyze said nice comeback win.
I could not understand why.
I never saw myself as in a losing position at anytime during that game.
1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 e6 4. d3 Ne55. Qd1 Nxc4 6. dxc4 g6 7. e5 Bg7 8. Nf3Nh6 9. O-O Ng4 10. Bf4 h5 11. h3 Nh612. Bg5 f6 13. exf6 Bxf6 14. Bxf6 Qxf615. c3 Nf5 16. Ne1 b6 17. Qf3 Rb8 18. a4Bb7 19. Qf4 Ke7 20. Nd2 g5 21. Qh2 g422. g3 gxh3 23. Qxh3 h4 24. g4 Rbg825. f3 Ne3 26. Rf2 Qf4 27. a5 Qg3+28. Qxg3 hxg3 29. Re2 Nxg4 30. fxg4Rh1#

Here, a 10|10 blitz game against an FM, I was Black, and evidently, lost the game - it was one of my best losses though !

The time control is 15|10.

I don't know much about strategy,i can only think in terms of tactics.I think that is my biggest flaw.If you can recommend something,i would appreciate that.

Game here:

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/200865884

It was a Daily game at 3 days per move. At the time of the game, my opponent was rated 2194 and I was rated 2189.

My annotations here: 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/a-heroic-defense-in-the-sicilian-najdorf-kids-dont-try-this-at-home

Meaning?

Personal preference. I don't like the Dragon because of the weakness of the d5 square.

... but we shouldn't clutter up this thread with cross-chat. The OP started the thread for a specific purpose, so let's stay on-topic.

I posted the first analysis video on my website this evening! Again, that's the "Videos" page on https://chesspathways.com/

Getting tons of requests, both on this thread and from our site members, but I'm hoping to get to as many as I can. Please give feedback on the formatting on the video tonight - I feel like the sizing could be improved. Let me know how you like the content as well

I like the commentary and the format of the video but as you pointed out, the sizing could be improved.

Have you tried lowering your desktop screen resolution before recording?... say, from 1920 x 1080 down to 1200 x 800? That should make the chess-board take up a larger fraction of the screen and force the text to word-wrap into a more compact arrangement.

Try it out as a "dry run" first, of course.

Interesting, I'll have to keep that in mind!

I assume that you're computer-savvy enough to know how to set your desktop screen resolution, yes?

If not, I could coach you through it.

Thanks for accepting my game request. I look forward to the analysis after the game is finished!

I've never had to do it before actually.

I'm going to assume that you have Windows 10. It's the usual operating system these days. If you use something else, just say so.

Start with an empty desk-top... no programs running. Point your mouse at any empty area on the desk-top and right-click. A little menu will pop up:

Choose "Display Settings".

Another window will open, listing a bunch of options. There are a few ways to proceed, but the simplest is probably to just change your resolution mode down to something around 2/3rds of its normal setting.

Click on "Resolution" and pick something lower than your maximum setting (which is usually your normal setting, too). If your usual resolution is 1920 x 1080 like mine, I would try 1280 x 800 (or something near that).

This should force the chess-board in your app to occupy about 50% more of the screen and force the text to look bigger and to word-wrap into a solid block of text. That might give a visually more pleasing appearance to your app.

Try it out with a short test recording to see if it works and whether you like it better this way.