Tournament Round 6

just wanna ask a question what's the name of this opening it's the first time I see it :S

I lost a pawn at the first 11 move but how I lost it what should I play to keep the material even ??

at move 31 and 32 I closed up the queen side pawns to keep the bishop there and lock up his bishop movement

here's the game

It's a rare form of the French Defense, which is usually played with the move order 1. e4 e6 and only then 2. d4. Black's 2... Nc6 is atypical.

You lost your pawn because you failed to protect it with e.g. 11. Be3. However, your trouble started with 9. Bb5, since it was very easy for black to repel that attack, causing you to retreat and leave your d-pawn unattended. After losing your pawn, you exchanged your pieces away too eagerly, which is not a good idea when down on material (even only a pawn).

Good recovery, though.

Well. On the tenth move black is adding pressure against the d4 pawn but instead of responding you castled.

Had you seen the thread of Nxd4 you would either have defended the pawn with Be3 or Ne2 or taken his knight with Bxc6 (and at the same time giving him double pawns).

I must though agree with azukikuru that you played the endgame very well, while your opponent did very poorly. You managed to advance your pawns very quickly on the queenside while your opponent mostly moved around his knight aimlessly instead of using his pawn-advantage on the kingside. The unaccepted bishop-sacrifice was a nice way to finish him off.

I don't know whether you knew this opponent from before. If you did and you knew that you were this superior against him in the endgame, you exchanges in the midgame are defendable. Otherwise you should've hold on to your pieces more dearly since you were materially down without any positional advantage to make up for it as I can see.

aha I got it it's call Horwitz defense and at the third move it changed to horwitz defense declined

in this game I used 3 book moves and he is only two, finishing the opening with Nf6

many thanks  Azukikuru and   MasterGnu