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KyngKiller wrote:
 

At the beginning of the opening you were doing well up until your first mistake on the 7th move. This move simply lost a pawn. Think of it this way: that pawn was only being defended by your knight and your knight was capturable at the moment. This meant that the following sequence would win a pawn: bxc3 bxc3 kxe4. Not only this but after his knight took this would've threatened your bishop and if you don't know many players often consider bishops to have a slight edge over knights for a variety of reasons. Luckily he missed this.

After that you need to focus on blunders. For ex: on your 12th move you simply gave away your bishop. You need to pay attention to the board before every move you make. This helps reduce a large portion of those silly blunders. Again luckily he missed this. You found a nice discovered attack on the queen near the end but you have to stop making those silly mistakes.

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yourmatejohn wrote:

This is my first annotation. Please provide suggestions on getting more out of this practice and doing better annotations for future

The game was that crazy and the fact that almost every single one of your moves were "greats" is exaggerated. Not only that but your queens move wasn't "brilliant". I would appreciate it if your annotations were actually honest and true. For ex: on the 13th move when your opponent played ke4 that was a mistake. But capturing with bxe4 was not "great". It was a miss meaning a bad move which didn't take advantage of the situation. After he played ke4 the true best move would've been f3 not bxe4. Your 19th move was also a miss not a "great". Again the true best move would've been d5 which would've forked the knight and rook. There are still many other things I haven't even mentioned.

Please actually verify that your moves are really a "great" or "brilliant" rather than just calling even your bad moves a "great" and even calling some of your opponents best moves "bad". Thank you.

Udvashian
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yourmatejohn wrote:

This is my first annotation. Please provide suggestions on getting more out of this practice and doing better annotations for future

The game was that crazy and the fact that almost every single one of your moves were "greats" is exaggerated. Not only that but your queens move wasn't "brilliant". I would appreciate it if your annotations were actually honest and true. For ex: on the 13th move when your opponent played ke4 that was a mistake. But capturing with bxe4 was not "great". It was a miss meaning a bad move which didn't take advantage of the situation. After he played ke4 the true best move would've been f3 not bxe4. Your 19th move was also a miss not a "great". Again the true best move would've been d5 which would've forked the knight and rook. There are still many other things I haven't even mentioned.

Please actually verify that your moves are really a "great" or "brilliant" rather than just calling even your bad moves a "great" and even calling some of your opponents best moves "bad". Thank you.

Can you tell me which part of my game I should work on? I myself think that it should be the endgame.

MaestroDelAjedrez2025

There obviously wasn't a way for white to win this one as we all know

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@Udvashian

Yes I myself agree that you should work on your endgame. That qxb3+ was simply just a draw. If you don't know a king and flank pawn vs king endgame always results in a draw. If you simply just kept your queen on b1 and kept on pushing your flank pawn you would've easily won the game. You also need to work on your openings. You made a couple of questionable moves and for 6 entire moves your only developed piece was a bishop. If you're going to play the king's fianchetto try learning it fully.

Second of all are blunders. You need to look a couple moves into the future. That is something i've been talking about a lot recently. For ex: your 7th move just lost a pawn. And you simply blundered instantly a couple of times. Simply double-checking the board before every move can prevent that. You also need to learn to spot your opponents blunders(again looking a couple moves into the future really helps). For ex: on your 11th move you could've bxe5 which would be a lot of threats. First of all it lines up for many discovered attacks after your opponent moves their queen such as bxg7 on the next move which would trap your opponent's rook.

You were doing great in the middlegame apart from a few moves which weren't necessarily mistakes but rather had better alternatives. Simply focus on studying the opening, endgame, and preventing and spotting blunders.