You did a good job of idetifying your mistakes. After 8...h6, you should have simply retreated with 9. Nh3; your move 9. Be5 inevitably loses a piece.
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34. Rxf3 at least forces trade of rooks thereafter and avoids the forking of rooks later on. It also seems like there may be some advantage to follow.
As someone who is trying to take the advice of experienced players to analyze one's games, I find the computer's analyses inscrutable and therefore exasperating. For example in your game, ET, the computer spits out "4. Nc3?!" The "?!" tells me nothing except that the computer does not respect the move. I see nothing inherently bad with the move selection. Of course, this is an opportunity for those with better chess understand to lord it over me. But calling what the computer does "analysis" surely demeans the term.
I'm not much higher rated than you, but here are my thoughts on your game.
As far as 4.Nc3 vs 4.exd5 goes, the knight move is just fine. The advantage to capturing with the pawn is you possibly get in a free move with something like 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.c4 Qd8 6.Nc3.
I think 8.Neg5 was a poor move. You said you chose to "continue a king side attack," but there really isn't anything to attack at this point. You are throwing a piece forward but it isn't working with any of your other pieces. More importantly, after Black's most obvious move, 8...h6, you have nowhere to go except to h3 and that's not a good place for the knight. If you were going to move that piece, you should have gone back to c3 or even to c5 if you wanted to appear aggressive. You end up down a piece for a pawn after all the exchanges.
14.f4 was an excellent move, IMO. Black doesn't have a queen or dark-squared bishop to attack your king position, so you aren't really weakening that area. The move supports the e-pawn and the knight on g5, which has a virtually unassailable position anyway. I definitely wouldn't have retreated the knight because it and the Bc4 are combining on the backward pawn on e6. You don't want to give up that pressure. You could nab the pawn right now with 14.Bxe6, but after 14...Nxe5 it's just an even swap.
15.0-0 is an okay move but you missed the chance to pick up a pawn with 15.Rxd8+ Kxd8 16.Nf7+ Ke8 17.Nxh8. You are temporarily up a pawn but the knight isn't coming out. You can give up the knight for the g-pawn, though, so now you have two pawns for the piece.
After 16...b5 I think you should have kept the bishop on the a2-g8 diagonal with either 17.Bb3 or 17.Ba2. That keeps the pressure on the e6-pawn and keeps his bishop and knight tied down to its defense. Your knight and bishop are much better positioned than his.
The remainder of the game I'm not sure of your plan. It just seems you are hoping for blunders by your opponent (ex. 20.Be2-f3 and then back to e2 on the next move). You have to expect your opponent to make the best possible moves. In consolation, you didn't miss fxe4 after 34...Ne4+ because the f-pawn was pinned. :)
@Endlesstrax...flank opening or hyper modern style is quite difficult to play because it gives opponents free centre.
So essentially u must know how to break the centre pawns...otherwise opponent will have huge initiative.
At beginning its better to play centre opening e4/d4 or perhaps similar defense.
what was the time controls for this game?
Hi,
I played this game recently. As you can see the player out rated me by about 250 points. I feel I did fairly well in the begining, but about half way through it became apparent my "plan" wasn't going to work, and I wasn't sure what to do next. Any comments about my tactical play, especially in the plan-less mid-to-end game play.