Why do you put two exclamation points after 10...Bd6? That lost you a piece. You could have avoided losing anything with the simple Nf6.
30... Re7 is a blunder what bad would have come from Rd7+ after Kg6 or Re7? Better would have been just moving your bishop.
Those two moves are the biggest blunders I could find. I hope you take this non-critically, but you had many more inaccuracies and mistakes I'll go over later.
Thanks for posting the game. You made few mistakes, I agree. But each time you made a mistake you lost a whole piece. That's not a mistake that's a blunder. You blundered away three pieces (admittedly your opponent was nearly as wasteful) and you won't win many games if you do that. Here are my comments below for interest:
7. ... Qe7. You could play Be7 here to develop a piece and keep the white queen out of c7. You would meet Nb5 with Qa5+.
8. ... Nxe4 is a good move. However, not if you then play Qe8. What was wrong with Qe6 keeping the threat of discovered check on? After 9. ... Qe8 white can win your knight straight away with Qe5+.
10. ... Bd6 drops a piece anyway.
14. Bh4. Now white is throwing his pieces away - this move loses two whole pieces!!! Better would be 14. Nxf6. Suddenly black is winning the game.
16. ... Re4+ is a good move. The only way to avoid losing a piece.
18. ... Bb7. A bad move losing a piece. You say you have no good move to make. What about moving the bishop that is now attacked on d6 as a result of O-O-O?
21. ... Ke8 is a another huge blunder. It allows the knight to fork the rook on f4 and the important c7 square (which leads to a rook-king fork). This move loses a rook.
25. Nxb6. I agree that white maybe had better moves here. But by comparison with some of the other blunders in the game, swapping a piece for two pawns is not that bad.
27. Rb5. The sequence that begins with this move is quite clever. The first move tempts you to bring your pawn forward so that it is not protected by the bishop. After 28. ... g5 white can win your d pawn.
30. ... Re7. Another blunder. You say that you want to prevent Rd7. However, the bishop is guarding that square. Much more important is to guard the bishop. White attacks your bishop with Rd8 and you completely ignore it.
I didn't play on after this because a rook and many pawns down the game is lost.
I hope you don't think I am being too critical. If I am a bit terse in my commentary it is because I am at work and so don't have so much time to be nice. In short, each of the following five moves was a piece-dropping blunder:
9. ... Qe8
10. ... Bd6
18. ... Bd7
21. ... Ke8
30. ... Re7
White took advantage of four of these which means he picked up three pieces for free. However, white made his own blunder with 14. Bh4 losing two pieces in one go. White made less blunders than you and that is why he/she won the game.
Even at 1400-1500 in my experience a blunder giving a way a whole piece is likely to lead to a lost game.
I am slightly higher rated but I still make those sorts of blunders from time to time and often lose games because of it. The answer is to to check before you move: check what checks and captures your opponent has next move and make sure you can deal with each. These are probably errors of carelessness rather than fundamental flaws in your game if that makes sense. The good news is that they are - in theory - easily eradicated by taking a little more time before you move.
Steve
please, you should work on tactics, just try to start simple, look if any of your pieces are threatened, if so. you can chose:
1) move them away, try to move them to a square where they are safe.
2) protect them, move another piece in a way that it protects your threatened piece, make sure that when you are protecting a piece you have enough firepower, if your opponent threatens your piece with two of his pieces you must have at least two protecting pieces.
3)threaten one of your opponents pieces, so that if he takes yours you can take his right back, make sure he cannot take your piece with check or move his threatenned piece with check.
now, there are other things you must consider, but you shouldn't get all confused... once you seep all of this in you will see other things by yourself.
remember, to also check whether one of your opponents pieces is threatenned by your pieces and if he has protection, if he has protection, you shouldnt't imidiatly take it, as exchanging peices doesn't give you an advantage nessecerily, so... think before simply exchanging pieces!!, if the piece is unprotected then you can just take it and win a piece.
remember to always look for unprotected pieces, yours and your opponents!
i'll comment on your game...
oh forgot!!!
at move 9. Qd8 is actually a blunder, it loses a piece after Qe5+, ignore the lines I put under Qd8, they are rubbish!
30... Re7 is a blunder what bad would have come from Rd7+ after Kg6 or Re7? Better would have been just moving your bishop.
Thanks for the comments. I understood the 10. Nf6 move, however not the above part. Can you explain a bit more?
Hi all,
This is a game I lost, at the start I felt that I was playing quite well. However after few more moves I was loosiing.
However I felt that I did only few mistakes, and I could not understand some of my opponent's moves. Also at the instances, I could not find any good moves, so I played some move.
I have added as much as comments I could.
So please give your comments and ideas for me to improve.
Thanks.