Pretty happy about this win, lol am I too happy?
If you did 2. .. Qb6, you could have attacked the b2 pawn.
at 3. ... you did Nc6, but 3 ... e5 from you would have prevented e5 from him.
More advise coming from me ...
By the way if you did 3. ... e5 and he did 4.Bxe5, then 4 ... Qa5 would win his bishop.
5. ... f5 was not advantageous to you; what if he did exf5?
6. ... f4 would have been really cool after 6. cxd4, though.
Some good moves after, though.
LOL, your opponent might have castled on the wrong side or too early.
I see the bishop win now. Yeah f5 was me throwing away whatever I was working towards. I was a little lost at that point. I think he was not paying attention because he was 100 points ahead of me in his rating.
18...a6 isn't necessarily a terrible move, but the rationale "so I can play ...b5 and stop a check" is. The sooner you distinguish between serious threats and "check" the better you will be.
Other than that and missing 6...f4 and a few other minor things, seems like a pretty well conducted game. Congrats. :)
If the check in of itself is harmless, which appears to be the case (I freely admit I've not analyzed it much, but at first look I don't see what terrors it brings), then spending two tempi to stop it is anything but. :)
Also, if you were worried about White activating his Q with check (again, to what end, I'm not sure), a more efficient way might be 18...Kh8, costing only one tempo and permenently securing your King, or 18...Rc8, developing your unmoved Rook onto an open file.
On the other hand, I'm not sure 18...a6 is such a bad move - for some reason, it "feels" sort of right to have the pawn on a6 instead of a7, since it's no longer unprotected there once Black's QR enters the game - but the rationale of "it helps me prevent check" is often a misleading one for newer players.
ah. b5 to advance the pawn and stop his pawn? Rd8 was silly, I thought "this is silly" when I made the move.
lol I understand, sometimes I dont know where to move so I just try and fix a weakness
That's laudible, actually. Chess can be tricky in this way, though - it's sometimes hard to get a feel for "tempo" in it, which is to say when you can take "time out" to improve your position and when you need to strike as fast as possible. In time you'll probably develop a sense about these things, especially if you remember to ask yourself from time to time if what you're afraid of is real or not, because if it's an illusion, chances are you're better off letting your opponent persue it. :)
Btw, I don't think 18...a6 or 19...Rd8 were bad moves, mostly just commenting on the philosophy behind them.
ah. b5 to advance the pawn and stop his pawn? Rd8 was silly, I thought "this is silly" when I made the move.
I think White would be fine with doing b4 to b5, so one way to stop that is to move a pawn there yourself.
But White could still like to do b5 even if it is not of any service threat-wise and just takes more space only, and taking the opportunity away from White to do so is what the adversarial cruelness of aggressive chess is all about!
I'm confused - when could White have played b4-b5 in this game and not just simply lost a pawn? Also, if Black had allowed b4-b5 by not playing a7-a6, what would a pawn on b5 accomplish for White? It's not exactly cramping Black very much and in fact will require at some point a third move (probably a3-a4) for protection.
lol so many options in the end game, I thought it was suppose to be simple. I have won my last couple games against stronger opponents but I think that it is because they have not been playing well. I guess I would like to have seen my opponent make a good move so I can learn more. When I am unsure what to do I would like to see the threats that are hidden from my lack of experience.