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

Here is the last game I played as black trying to improve my Hippo defence... I put a lot of efforts in trying to explain my choices, I hope to get some insights

Thanks, Davide.

It took 8 months to write.

Definitely the best chess book out there.

Chernev's "Logical Chess" should pale next to it.

Much more instructive, and much more entertaining.

There might be some grammar mistakes here and there, some intentional, but overall the book rules.

3 times better than "The Secret of Chess", especially the later sections, which the preview excludes.

If you call a "scam" spending 8 full months on it, 240 days X 7 daily hours, = 1700 hours of hard hard work, using Stockfish as well as the knowledge obtained during a decade of analytical work, that fully OK by me.

The book contains nearly 2,000,000 characters, lol.

Covering concepts from attack on the king to deep deep strategy, so things Chernev's work holds, and things it has omitted.

Much more accurate analysis, aided by Stockfish.

Would be very surprised if you could refute some of my supporting lines.

I don’t think the problem of your book stands in the content as much as in how you presented it. +500 ELO points to *any* player? Just unrealistic, and sounds like a total bait.

Let's not hijack the thread, please.

Make sure games are annotated before posting!

Maybe.

I have been away from this forum for a long time now, and just enjoy posting some stuff.

Have forgotten how it feels...

In the past, we used to have long long discussions.

Concerning the 500-elo claim: well, one thing is certain, the book has 50 games to Chernev's 33, and is 800 pages long to Chernev's 250, so each game is annotated twice more comprehensively.

Wider choice of patterns, wider choice of openings, wider choice of quoted variations.

Numerical assessments relating to patterns here and there.

Frequently "new" knowledge concepts, unavailable in mainstream chess literature.

Match the wider knowledge base with equally easy presentation, and you could be able to grasp my optimism...

Of course, those happen to be just assessments.

Once people manage to read the book, they will hopefully provide me with their feedback.

In any case, I have spent over 1500 hours on it...

Checking consistently lines with Stockfish will probably account for one third.

Gradisca i miei saluti.

What do you mean by annotated? The annotation is on the right hand column I believe.

Or do you mean my own analysis.

Me and my opponent went over the game after.

Stockfish depth 10 calls it a complete draw, and any attempt from black results in disaster.

Stockfish depth 20 calls it a very difficult and complicated possible win for black with good play.

Neither me nor my opponent could see a line during the game for a win.

Also I too love schitt's creek.

........one of my favorite scenes of all-time in film....is when Stevie kisses David in the bar !!

(season 2 episode 7....self-search - can't find to post)

I would like to see Stockfish's depth 20. Can u post it ?....only 'cuz I'm looking for a refu'te to my backyard analysis.

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Stockfish has been used as a "verification engine", if you know what that means.

I've been carefully watching over its analysis.

But what do you know?

I know how to distinguish between "genuine" and "fake" Stockfish lines.

Feels natural, as I have spent endless hours analysing with Stockfish.

A good book will always blaze a trail, no matter what its detractors would say.

Yes, your own thoughts during the game move by move need to be given for someone to help you analyze the game. Make sure to check out the game analysis videos on Chesspathways.com to get a feel for the kind situation of annotations people give. Annotations are not computer numbers. Your thoughts don’t have to be correct, but I’m sure you had at least some thought process behind every move you made - why not explain to the reviewe so they can better understand your thought process to suggest improvements?

(Sorry for typos, on mobile)

It is a tourney game, me playing black pieces. SInce I dunno how to add comments to the annotations, I will do n this post.

8. ...d6 (with the idea of playing Knight d7, from where it can attack the weak pawn on c4)

12.Kh8 13. a6 (waiting moves, watching what opponet will play)

14. ...h5 I was very nervous making this move. Both Bishops on my kingside, Queen in the game, my position seems to be undermined with several threats)

16. ...g6 (Bishop on h3 is hanging)

19.O-O-O(opponet finally castled. after the last few exchanges my white squares around king are protected, not so my black squares, with the blacksquare bishop and Queen, it is very menacing for me, so have to play precise)

22. ...a4 (my plan was pretty much to bust open the files, before my opponet could laucnh an attack of his own)

23. we have a pawngrabber over here!

25. Bf4(opponet takes the opportunity that the Rooks eying down my Queen)

26. Nf3+(I recalled an epic game where the player saccrificed a piece to open up the file for the Rook. If someone might know which game it was, would be appreciated! Computer obviously doesnt like this move, but both me and opponet were low on time, so I just went for it)

28. ...Qc2 (Threatening c3+)

39. Rg6 (really growing tired of check repetitions from sore losing opponets..)

48. Qxc3 (Not quite sure if there were any other options, but giving up the Queen is very questionable?? Ka5 would be met with pawn push b4)

49. Bg5 ( no idea what this was all about, White completely snapped)

So that's it, hope you like it

Wouldn't you rather post a game you lost, though?

You can add annotations by right-clicking the move in the chess.com tool and clicking the "add comment" button.

Hi David, that was an entertaining game, but wouldn't you rather show a game that you lost? I'm not sure why so many people in this thread are posting games that they won

its cuz their bad at chess and just want an ego boost by showing off rather than legitimately looking for your help