Let me analyze your games!

i wasnt playing so why do you keep saying i this you this ? thanks for the comments thought

Alright, let's see:

3. d3, defending the pawn, but this blocks the diagonal for the f1 bishop. Probably 3. Nc3 was better. If 3. ...Bb4 then 4. Nd5, forking the knight and bishop and black can no longer take the e4 pawn. 3. d3 forces a king's side fianchetto for white, requiring more pawn moves, thus giving black a  slight advantage in development. The succeeding moves were simply consequences of this move.

9. Qxd2 might be better, gaining more activity and putting the queen on a color against the remaining bishop of black. Also, Qxd2 prepares Nc3, and if Nxc3 then Qxc3 and white's structure is intact.

9. ...Bf5. Black actually intends to prevent the c4 move from black, attacking the Knight. After 9. Bf5 10. c4 Nb5, the d3 pawn is falling, and so is white's center.

10. ...f6? This jeopardizes the Black monarch's safety. 10. ...Re8 was much better.

11. a3, is fine, but it was better to continue development here.

14. Re4? 14. Be4 was probably better. Black can no longer continue his pawn assault. If. 14. ...f5 then 15. Bxf5 Bxf5 16. Nxf5 Rxf5 17. Qxg4, winning a pawn and... 17. ...Rg5 18. Qe6+, winning back material. 17. ...Qg5 is also possible anyway.

15. Rxg4+? Loses material after 15. ...Bxg4. White would be in trouble after 15. ...Bxg4. In fact, black won only because he didn't take this rook. And there is no concrete attack after 16. Qxg4+, the king may simply escape to f7 into the comfort of his pieces.

15. ...Kh8? The king is dangerously isolated in that corner.

22. Rf1. 22. e4 was better, disturbing the bishop. The bad move 23. Rxh7+? giving the advantage away, was a consequence of missing this move.  After Rxh7 and the exchange, white is a piece down and it looks bad for white.

In the variation after 25. ...Rf8, Black will not 26. ...Qxf6 because of 27. Rxf6, and if 27. ...Rxh5 28. Rxc6, black would have lost the advantage.

After 27. g6, black now has to pay for his mistakes. The rest was just a simple endgame for white.

Thanks for sharing this.

Looks like I have help now :D.  You people are amazing

Maybe I should start contributing to this thread again instead of just watching it.  XD

Last Round "3rd Annual Summer Games" at my chess club.  Time control: 85 minutes for first 40 moves and 30 minutes sudden death.

I was White.

I was playing 2 games with my friend on the train. First one I terribly lost in 10 moves - I was sure these were all book moves (), but the next one was slightly better.

Here it is (I played white):

Meilan1, thanks! I just have a question. What about 25.O-O-O!? When we were analysing the following endgame (adepending on remaining time), we thought it's quite lost for black but ok. Yeah, I also saw the line, where I blundered the e-pawn...Maybe it should be marked with '?!' sign, because IMO it isn't so deadly, but there's an interesting line with suggested 14.Nc3. If black takes on c3, then 15.Ng5 Qxg5. Thanks for analysis!

25.0-0-0 and 25.Re1 are more or less the same, with perhaps a slight preference towards Re1 as in the endgame the king is better situated in the centre, plus it protects the f-pawn.

14.Nc3 was indeed the correct continuation but the reply should be 14...f5, and the knight is well placed (if Nxe4, fxe4 and the white f-knight has to flee).

What about my game???

I might take a look later and post analysis tomorrow (although, technically, it's erikido23's job!), but by and large it seems you've anonated all your moves already.

@Anonymous_U

I didn't go through every move in depth but here's some analysis. YOu played well in the beginning and gained an adavantage. However you lost it later on and in the endgame black was winning, until he played 42...Rb2??

11.Nd2, your bishop wasn't really bad and your knight was well placed. Better would have been either h3 to chase away his bishop (after Bxf3 Nxf3 white has the advantage), or dxc6.

13.b4 is good. If 13...cxd4   14.exd4! (not Nxd4?) and white has the advantage.

13...Rac8?. Correct reply is 14.dxc6 bxc6  15.c5 (uncovering attack on knight) Nb8   16.cxd6 Qxd6  17.Nc4 Qe6  18.Rad1, and white controls an open file (albeit challengeable). Note all moves were forced.

16. Qd2 - perhaps slightly better was Qf3.

22.Nd4?! Much better was 22.dxc6 Rxc6  23.b5 Rxc4  24.bxa6 Bxc3  25.Rxc3 Rcxe4  26. Qc1  and you're up a piece for two pawns.

23.bxc5?  You should have taken the knight outpost on c6 there and then. After your move, black's reply should have been 24....Bxc3  25.Qxc3 Nxe4, regaining a pawn, threatning your queen and radiating power.

26.f3? Much better was 26.f4

28.Qh6? - as you've already realised.

30...Qc7?!  Black should have exchanged, exposing your king and saddling you with doubled pawns on the h-file.

33...Qxb4?  Indeed black missed the extra pawn.

36.Ra1?! was a mistake. You should have first cleared the back rank issue with Kg1.

41...Rxe1?!  Better was Rc3.

42...Rb2?? Until now black was winning. Now the boll started rolling towards his demise.  The correct move should have been Ke5.

46.Kxb1 - at this point there is nothing black can do to stop you. All that is necessary it not to lose it.

49...h6 is as good a move as any. With correct kings play white would have been able to queen the d-pawn anyway. In fact white's 50th move should have been Kd3, totally ignoring the g&h pawns (unless on of them moves, at which point white moves his pawn from the same file two squares, i.e. ...g5, g4).

Pull up a chair for this one.  I find it downright laughable that it listed my rating as circa 2400 ELO in the original PGN.  I'm barely a 1700.  XD

Here's one from a group match here on chess.com:

@blueemu,

You missed a few better and good moves here and there, but overall you played well, holding on to the advantage you obtained fairly early, and accumulating tiny advantages all the time.

I'll just write a coupla examples:

36...Qd6! was the better move as you were in no rush to take either of the rooks and like this you're setting up your queen to eventually fork the king-knight with a back rank check. If white would have tried to stop you could have brought in your e rook for backup.

39...Qd6! was once again the correct move, pinning the rook.

some extra notes....8. dxe looks fine to me.  Win the bishop pair or a pawn.  An interesting idea might even be to play gxf3 and push f4.  Your king may be slightly airy but the black pieces aren't collecting over there fast enough.  30.  q-h3 allows black to get a edge.Once we get to move 32 he can win the a pawn...but misses it.

38...r-e1 should draw for black after the exchang eof a pair of rooks, then the exchange of the a pawn for the c pawn and black should be able to theoretically hold his position(if he understands his basic rook and pawn endings)  I don't think there are really any winning chances for either side at this point.  But, hey mistakes happen and you took advantage of it well

I disagree that dxe5 is better.  After b-c4 then simply n-c6(if n-g5 then r-f8 is fine) or r-e8 is fine for black..

Don't think there is anything wrong with q-d2 either.  Your king isn't getting attacked by all those pieces stucky behind pawns with a locked center.

agreed with the rest of the notes