Opinions on my game? Do you have any suggestions for improvement?

Hello everyone,

I just played this game a few minutes ago and I thought I'd see what you thought. I am of the intent of improving my chess play so any input would be helpful. 

Do you see any strategical flaws? Any tips? Any oversights I might have made? 

Thank you in advance. I hope you have a pleasant morning/afternoon/evening.

I can't tell if you really want to learn or whether you want to show off this nice win. Anyway, whichever it is, you are not going to learn much from a game like this. White played poorly and didn't really challenge you. From the time white played Na3 rather than Nc3 the game was effectively over. You took advantage well though, if that is what you wanted to hear. So well played. 

If you really want to learn you should post a defeat. A defeat is far more instructive because since you lost the game you either made blunders or you didn't really understand the positions. Trying to analyses those losses and inviting others to assist you is the way forward.

I wasn't trying to show off. I mean I did know it was a decent win but perhaps I made some flaws that my opponent didn't see but you did. 

The reason I posted this one was that I wanted it to be a very recent game and I haven't played much the last week or two.

I will post a longer game(a lost one) once my schedule lightens. Thank you for the feedback though.

Does this mean you Have to lose your next game?

If youre sincere in wanting advice, i will offer the following:

1. Post a loss.  The game you posted was a horrible example of wanting to improve.  Your opponent played like they were on life support.

2. You have been here since 2016, and have done 19 tactics.  Either youre doing tactics somewhere else, or youre not serious about improving.

Here is the usual advice i offer:

Opening Principles:

1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5

2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key

3. Castle

4. Connect your rooks

Tactics...tactics...tactics...

Pre Move Checklist:

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe. 

2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board. 

3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board. 

4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece. 

5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to do?"

Middlegame Planning:

1. Expand your position:

a. Gain more space.

b. Improve the position of your pieces.

2. Decide on what side of the board to play.

a. Queenside: a-c files.

b. Center: d-e files.

c. Kingside: f-h files.

Compare, space, material, and weakness(es)

Play where you have the advantage.

3. DO NOT HURRY.  Regroup your pieces, and be patient. 

As always it is hard to argue with FishEyedFools' advice

You could have posted the loss before this game where you went from winning, to allowing your opponent to take your rook and queen. You might have gotten some good insights from that game. 

You do learn more from losses, than wins.  However, in this game, one move which made very little sense was 7. ..Bxa3 - you gave up a good bishop for a bad knight.

I think 7. ..d4 looks very promising in its place, with the threat of Bb4+ to follow.  With the queenside bishop and knight already deflected from the defense of the d2 square, the simple pawn thrust exploits the fact that the b-pawn is stuck defending the a3-knight.  If the threat is ignored, 8. ..Bb4+ 9. c3 dxc3! is devastating.  Even if it isn't, there are very few sound replies (if any).

You did a decent job fending off your opponent's initial attack, but when you force an opponent to waste tempi like that, it usually opens some attacking possibilities.  Try to look for them in your future games.

Me think you forget where youre at :-)

Anything can be turned into an arguement.

 9. ... Bf5 is clearly not the best. Ne4 is much more forcing. With the open f-file an attack against f2 is always something to look for. Bf5 blocks the file and your idea with Nd4 is prevented by the only useful move white has.

I was thinking of something like:

9. ... Ne4 10 e3 0-0 now I already struggle to find a move for white, maybe 11 Ne2 Be6 and black has huge advantage