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johntheChristian

Lament my stalemate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A shameful waste :P

spadelotus

so many bad moves in one game. where to start?

Loomis

2. d3. A bit of a weak, defensive move. This blocks your f1 bishop. It also allows black to play PxP PxP QxQ KxQ keeping you from castling, but I would worry more about black playing d4 and giving you a long term cramped position.

4. Nc3. You have just lost a pawn

6. Qxd8. Why initiate the trade of queens? You can play Bb5 instead.

9. Nge2. You missed an opportunity to just take the knight on c6.

14. f5. Why close the position like this? 14. fxe5 fxe5 15. Bg5+ looks very good for white.

Etc. the rest of the game.

Aurevilly

On a more positive note, I'd say there's room for improvement on almost every move, though I admit the final stalemate is a climax Wink

Dont get discouraged, playing a lot and studying a bit should do some good !

JC

gwfhegel

Instructive lesson--memorize that stalemate pattern and stay away from it! See also, Don't allow the Floobly by Dan Heisman.

www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman80.pdf

Loomis

Oh geez, at move 58 you have mate in 2 moves by just playing Nf4 and then Ng6#.

smellyandstinky

wow

emceenugget

you dont seem to do very well in seeing possible knight moves.  that just stood out to me.

danacreate

cool

morteza_rah

learning with chessmaster series game could be very usefull for you if you want to improve quickly

Rookbuster

on move 22 if you had gone Bc4 you could have traded bishop for rook and you would have had your rook on his back rank..could have started cleaning out his pawns at that point and really established an advantage

myah

Lament my stalemate.

I really blew this lead!!

Dinkydoe

Myah, lol, what is that?:P A joke?

anhhuyalex
Loomis wrote:

2. d3. A bit of a weak, defensive move. This blocks your f1 bishop. It also allows black to play PxP PxP QxQ KxQ keeping you from castling, but I would worry more about black playing d4 and giving you a long term cramped position.

4. Nc3. You have just lost a pawn

6. Qxd8. Why initiate the trade of queens? You can play Bb5 instead.

9. Nge2. You missed an opportunity to just take the knight on c6.

14. f5. Why close the position like this? 14. fxe5 fxe5 15. Bg5+ looks very good for white.

Etc. the rest of the game.


 I think Loomis is right. You missed too many good moves in this game!!!