Please analyze this game.
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What is so funny? Little boy.
@blueemu check the moves that rat was talking about. Do you find them suspicious?
I checked, and no. Re8 was the first move that would occur to a chess player.
That's why you need to relax. Why get upset if you aren't being seriously attacked?
I checked, and no. Re8 was the first move that would occur to a chess player.
That's why you need to relax. Why get upset if you aren't being seriously attacked?
Ah, @bluemu, Of course Re8 is playable only if you see the tactics for next 5 moves.
29..... Re8,30. Bf7 Qc6+ 31.Kb1( Qc2 goes the main line in his game) Rxe3 32.Qxe3 Re8 ( backrank thread).
Otherwise it is not a candidate move for most human due to bishop f7 fork.( while rook is also protecting c8 Queen thread).
I can only see that tactics only when I have 2-3 mins for that move( 30 mins rapid game).
A human candidate move( logical move) would probably be Bg4. ( attacking Bishop and protecting Queen in c8.)
I don't know how the above game slipped away from me.
Hi Jimmy - you don't have to know exactly what went wrong, but in general if you want someone to help you analyze a game, you should be providing what you were thinking about each turn. Surely each of your moves had some sort of thought process that led to them. It doesn't matter if it's faulty or not - in fact, if your thinking process is faulty, all the better - that means I can help you learn something when I analyze it!
You really don't have any idea where things could have gone wrong though? Have you looked back through the game? You're down a pawn after 13 moves, right? Isn't that a sign that something went wrong in the tactical flurry that happened just prior? Have you looked back through these first 13 moves to try to figure out why you lost a pawn?
Thanks for the reply BlakelyBChess. I lost a pawn because I played the Smith-Morra Gambit against the Sicilian (and therefore gave away a pawn). Was never able to convert it into a real time/initiative advantage. I guess my question is where did my initiative falter? Did the opponent just defend with precision? Obviously I should have avoided trading pieces in a gambit. But I didn't want to lose tempi avoiding trades and nullify the advantage I earned for my pawn. Where is a good spot for white's LSB in the Smith-Morra (especially when black plays e6 at some point)? I will annotate and try to upload it, but how does one upload an annotated game to chess.com?
I don't know how the above game slipped away from me.
Hi Jimmy - you don't have to know exactly what went wrong, but in general if you want someone to help you analyze a game, you should be providing what you were thinking about each turn. Surely each of your moves had some sort of thought process that led to them. It doesn't matter if it's faulty or not - in fact, if your thinking process is faulty, all the better - that means I can help you learn something when I analyze it!
You really don't have any idea where things could have gone wrong though? Have you looked back through the game? You're down a pawn after 13 moves, right? Isn't that a sign that something went wrong in the tactical flurry that happened just prior? Have you looked back through these first 13 moves to try to figure out why you lost a pawn?
Thanks for the reply BlakelyBChess. I lost a pawn because I played the Smith-Morra Gambit against the Sicilian (and therefore gave away a pawn). Was never able to convert it into a real time/initiative advantage. I guess my question is where did my initiative falter? Did the opponent just defend with precision? Obviously I should have avoided trading pieces in a gambit. But I didn't want to lose tempi avoiding trades and nullify the advantage I earned for my pawn. Where is a good spot for white's LSB in the Smith-Morra (especially when black plays e6 at some point)? I will annotate and try to upload it, but how does one upload an annotated game to chess.com?
Oh, right, it was a Smith-Morra 
. I scrolled through the first 13 moves and noticed you were down a pawn for no compensation, so didn't think to check if a gambit was played.
Nonetheless, something definately has gone wrong in the opening when white ends up down a pawn for no compensation within 13 moves. I think the light bishop goes to c4 in the Smith-Morra. But most important, you just have to reject this whole forcing tactical sequence with e5 and exd6. It doesn't lead to anything except for exchanges, and black just gets a better game with the extra pawn.
I played against a very strong opponent in an OTB tournament. It was FIDE rated and time controls were 90m + 30s per move. I almost managed to pull a miracle draw, but sadly failed and lost. Could you please give me advice on how I can improve and what my biggest weaknesses are?
I thought I had posted this already, I'm I crazy or did it get deleted?
Edit: NVM, I posted this on another thread by accident.
Please tell me what you think of my best Chess Game ever and he is a International Master
Hey, you're obviously better than me yadda yadda... But looking at your game, one thing that stands out immediately is that you use a ton of piece play--relying on pieces to create tactics--but neglect to robustly use your pawns to create positional weaknesses prior to the endgame. I think that this could improve your game.
Coach me please!
Coach me please!
Sure - please contact me through my site, chesspathways.com. We can work something out.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/3649780297
This is a case in point, although I'm interested in whether you think I played any weak or inaccurate moves. It was a ten-minute blitz game and there's been some discussion recently about how to take advantage when an opponent plays deliberately weak moves ("trash", one might call it) with a view to making someone think too much or become uneasy about being out of their comfort zone.
I'm sure there were tons of inaccurate moves by both sides, not sure there's too much value to analyzing a ten minute blitz game where our opponent's messing around like that
I played against a very strong opponent in an OTB tournament. It was FIDE rated and time controls were 90m + 30s per move. I almost managed to pull a miracle draw, but sadly failed and lost. Could you please give me advice on how I can improve and what my biggest weaknesses are?
Hi @Deranged , I analyzed your game! It can be found on the Videos section of my site - chesspathways.com
It's Video 10 of the "Game Analysis" section. I hope you like it, and please share your feedback with me!
Please analyze this game.
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