I think you played the mid game very well, nice game!
7...Nd5 doesn't looks to bad in this move order.
But you gave it away in the endgame. Re5 seems a lot better yeah. And then you suddenly hanged the h pawn. Then later on you didn't do anything about his passed pawn. Maybe shape up your endgame a bit?
agree with above, Re2 would probably have won you the game in the end.
You also left it about 10 moves too late to start moving pawns up, i might have started at 27, either pawn on a file, or g/h. Your king could then hide in the block of pawns, with one rook covering, whilst other shepards pawns up. But then I've never studied end games so I might be talking balls.
Also, i think 17. 0-0 is much better thank Kd7. Its too early to bring out the king, and much of the hurt that came later was due to this.
I had became really preoccupied with keeping my rooks active I had almost tunnel vision... Time to dig out the endgame books methinks!
13...Ba3 Bb3 Bb2 seems to be winning a pawn.
But you should be more careful on the defence, you don't need an endgame book to see that a pawn will queen in 2 moves.
Oh, by the way, this was definitely a tactical loss.
Duly noted!
Don't listen to kaustub10. You shouldn't castle. The king is a fighting piece, right? You understood that when you played Kd7 early on. But then you got scared. You started getting checks and so you started to sweat. You marched your king right back where it started from and that cost you the game. Notice that your king died in its bed, not on the battlefield. You're playing like the king is a fighting piece, and that's good, but now you need to upgrade to playing like the king is a bad ass fighting piece that ain't afraid'a no spite checks!
Furthermore, you said you're worried that your rooks would be "reduced to passivity" but I don't think you know what that means exactly. It doesn't mean that a rook is defending a pawn or your king. It means that that's all the rook can do. 24...Re5 25. f4 Rh5 attacks the h2 pawn and protects the h pawn (not that it needs the protection yet). That's not a passive rook. That's a multi-purpose rook- the best thing a chess piece can be.
Aha... I see, ChessSoldier. I just thought that any defensive role was a passive one
Aha... I see, ChessSoldier. I just thought that any defensive role was a passive one
Not at all. Consider this famous diagram:
Ask yourself- which rook is attacking the pawn? Which one is defending the pawn? Now ask yourself- which one would you consider the active rook? The correct answer is that the White rook, the one on defense, is the active rook.
But notice what its job really is. Its job is to help the pawn promote and Black's job is to stop that from happening. So even though the White rook is 'defending' the pawn, its really helping to attack Black as a whole. It has the initiative, in other words.
Now go back to your game. After 24...Re5 25. f4 Rh5, the Black rook is defending the pawn. But notice what its job really is- just like our diagram rook, its trying to help a pawn advance down the board. The rook is defending the pawn, but it's actually on offense!
When we talk about passive rooks, what we usually mean is something like this:
Note that the Black rook has to guard his king and then gets stuck there. If the rook were able to jump over his king, thus being more active, then it could continue to defend. But rooks can't do that, so Black's rook is useless to him. THAT is rook passivity.
Aha.... Getting a grip on thats probably worth a lot of playing strength. Thanks very much ChessSoldier
I guess Ill defend myself kinda late, so im probably just talking to myself here. But I still think chesssoldier is wrong. I just put in the position in chessmaster computer, at 17. 0-0-0. The two best moves for black are 0-0 or e8 - e7. Personally I still prefer 0-0. The king is an important attacking piece in the ENDGAME not in the middle game. I guess e8 - e7 is good cause it links 2 rooks and king is still safe. But ure move of Kd7, putting your king in line with white's rook and pinning your central pawn was one of your big mistake. A lot of your moves that come after that are defending ureself from that. Anyway thats my take. peace.
Well, I'm actually kinda pleased I didn't lose this one on pure tactics as it means the visions getting better but I still lost so heres the game:
Any comments and constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers