Hi! This is my first post! Could you please help me to analyze this game?

I liked this game, because the opening of white (with the queen and so on...) is usually a bit annoying for me as I don't find ways to get rid of the danger, and this time I did reasonabily well. However, as you are going to see, I (black) am going to be the first one to be in inferiority of pieces (as white will take me a pawn I am not going to be able to recover). And that means I made some mistakes in the beginning.

I assume I won because of white mistakes more than because I played well. The thing is... Could someone help me analyzing this game (especially the first moves) to see what I could have done better?

Thanks so much in advance.

Overall good handling of the game and the Wayward Queen Attack although there are alot of inaccuracies.

6. ... Nc6? is a bad move because the knight was useful on d4 because if whites knights moves with 7. Nf3 or 7. Ne2 then white's best choice after Nxd3 or Nxe2 is Qxf3/Qxe2 when white has moved the queen 4 moves in the opening.

7. ...d6? is a bad move, blocking in the bishop and not developing. 7. ... Bg7 was beter, developing, preparing for 0-0 and providing more support for the knight on f6.

9. ... Be6?! and 10. Bxe6 seems okay for white as black's pawn structure is bad and in the coming endgame can be a weakness. 9. ... Qe7 was better.

10. ... e4!? is a nice way to complicate things. Good move. However your continuation was just bad. 13. ... g5!? is interestin but 13. ... Ne5! was better preparing for a knight jump to d3 where it serves a good purpose in cramping the white position and pressuring the bishop.

15. ... Qxf5?! 16. Nxf5! is good for white as the white knight is serving a useful purpose in cramping the black kingside and reducing your dark-squared bishop's activity.

17. ... Nd3+! is interesting but you should have kept the knight on d3 and let it complicate things before later trading it for the bishop. I am trying to think of 17. ... exd3 en passant as valid because black has a passed pawn (oh read about en passant and you will realized that 17. ... exd3 is legal)

19. ... h5? is a bad move as it loses a pawn to 20. Rhe1. Better was 19. ... Kd7! preparing for 20. ... Re1. Note not 19. ... 0-0-0 because in the endgame, WE WANT THE KING IN THE CENTRE (remember that, its important)

The rest was okay but 37. .... hxg3 en passant was better as now black has a passed pawn. Good game but sharpen your opening skills

well - ill give it a shot : )

after 3.Bc4, in his First Chess  Openings, Mr Schiller recommends Qf6. Although I cannot say whether this is better, he has a point - your dark sqaured bishop seems to be better placed on c5 than on g6.

I cant see the point of moving your knight to d4 only to move it back to c6 again - since your knight cant be kicked for the moment, I think that something like d6 would be better, followed by Be6, or Ne6-c5.

11...Bxd5 is not disastrous , but perhaps not the best - Bg7 would be preferable.

13...g5?! leaves the f5 square a black hole in your camp. I personally think that Nb8-d7 was neccessary.

18...Nxc1? give up your wonderful knight for the useless white bishop. After the trade, white actually has the advantage due to his good knight vs bad bishop.

19...h5? dooms your e pawn. Your last chance to hold on to the pawn was Kd7! (and not 0-0-0?! as after Re8 protecting the pawn, f3 still ends its short life).

But nevertheless, your opponent's blunder gives you a good win against a higher rated opponent!

oops... sry paladin - didnt mean to burst ur bubble, ur comment wasnt there when i was typing up mine!

well... most of our points were similar, but now that i read ur suggestions, i might as well as give my 2 cents worth!

7...d6 opens up the bishop, doesnt that count as developing too?

9...Be6 IMO is not a bad move, after 10.Bxe6? fxe6 black's pawn structure is actually OK, he prepares d5.

Your 13...Ne5? simply loses a pawn to Qxe4...

oh yeah... good point about the 13. ... Ne5?

Sry bout that but yeah, although ...Bg7 was better than ...d6

I've been reading and checking al your observations... and i jsut wanted to thank you so much for the help!

You have really helped to change my mentality in some things... For example... I almost always think that a knight is worse than a bishop... and now I see that there are lots of factors wich determine if a bishop or a knight is better...

I would like to know more about the importance of having the king in the centre in the endgame... But as I don't want to bother you more, i'll try to find that for myself.

Thanks again, Paladinlsback192 and ogerboy.

6... Nc6? was a pointless waste of time. The knight was on a good spot and you moved it away rather than developing another piece.

7... d6 I would say that this was not a bad move as it allows for the development of one of your bishops and the other one can always move to g7 or e7.

8... Nxd5 This isn't neccesarily a bad move, but it would have been better to play Bg7 to support your knight, prepare for a castle, and make your opponent be the one to lose time with trading.

9... Be6?! After a trade on e6 you get doubled pawns and an open f file. Better might have been Qe7 or Qd7.

12... e4!? was a nice move. So was the rest of the queen chase with the next few moves.

15... Qxf5?! This gives the center to white's knight. Better would have been Bg7 to support your queen while developing a piece and preparing to castle.

17... Nd3+ Good move. Ruins white's castle and puts the knight in a good spot.

18... Nxc1?! In most cases you don't want to trade a well positioned piece for an undeveloped piece.

19... h5? This loses a center pawn afte what white played next. Better would have been O-O-O

27. d5!! Love that move.

39. Rb3# Nice mate.

Nice game but u lost a lot of time by moving same piece more than once

Thanks so much for these new insights!

It has been really really helpful!

Thanks a lot.