Sandwich770 vs Sacha212

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Below are two games that i played with Sacha212.  We are very evenly matched.  I won one of the games and lost one.  Please help me analyze these games and give some feedback to how well i played.

 

The second game is a loss to Sacha212.  I made many pawn miscalculations in this game.

Those are my two games. Hope you payed attention and got some feedback for me. =)
Avatar of Wasabi_Kid

Good job on the first game, by swapping off all the pieces after winning a pawn to help convert to a win.

Looking at the second game, I think the opposite was better: to keep the pieces on the board, and take advantage of Black's extra pawn being doubled.

Avatar of gxtmf1

I very much liked your approach to the first game and the second. Besides losing the second game from blunders, one thing I noticed is that when you traded off pieces and entered the endgame, he had a bishop and you had a knight. It's hard for me to say which was more powerful in that situation, but it seems that tonydal preferred the positions you achieved with the knight. Maybe that's something you should be careful of in the future- which will be stronger in the endgame, the bishop or the knight, and to trade accordingly.

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tonydal wrote:

In the second, Black's decision to allow his king to get wedged in on e5 was pretty scary.  After 28 Re1 he would've been forced to sac the exchange with 28... Rxd5 (the knight's power in such a position is truly awesome).


 Lol i completley missed that.... I guess thats why ur a NM.