We need more amateurs to post their annotated games.

Your move 17 doesn't look bad, I was saying I think he missed a better move, to show how bad your position looks (to me anyway) at that point.

I don't like 3. .. e5. White is attacking you on one point (d5) twice. e6 could be a natural defender. It might lose a pawn after:

3. .. e5 4. Bg5 Be6 5. Bxf6 Qxf6 6. exd5. Black can recapture the knight with 5. .. gxf6, but that leaves the black king side wide opened.

12. .. Bg6 can be replaced by

12. .. Nxf3 13. Nxf3 Bxg4 and you have at least two pawns for the knight. Not enough, but better then what you play in the game.

17. b4 is a move of white, not black. Instead of 17. Qa5 17. b4. 17. Qa5 was a bad move of white and you responded good to it.

Oh, I see.  b4 would have been a far better white move on 17.  And I see your other points as well.  If I can remember these kinds of things I'll improve!

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=563923146 this is a game of mine me (1058) playing teslak86 (947) it is a good game

any suggestions white resigned on after 13. ...Bf2, i think it was a nice game

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?page=8&node=144665&eresult=

there's another below

at 30minutegame, i dont exactly get want you mean

This game shows why you can't transpose to a french after you've fianchettoed your LSB, why you can't ignore completely one side of the board, and why you can't blunder away making unrelated pawn moves when you're under a serious attack. >.>  *this guy* on move 11 annotation

noah2358

Your opponent was playing the Owen Defense

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1248990

1. e4 b6   2. d4 Bb7   3Bd3 e6 

Yeah, that's what I said in the annotations.

That... was hard to flip through. That poor light-squared bishop had no chance of going anywhere, stuck behind his own pawn chain.

I just finished a game in which I noted each decision made, what I was worried about, what I was trying to do, etc.  I think the process helped me be more systematic.

I don't think you realize how dominating your position was. You crushed him, but let him live longer than you had to. I'll start analyzing from move 17, since I think most of the moves you did before that were solid.

17. If you wanted to get a Rook on the H-file, you should have done Rfe1. There is a sutble difference between the two moves, but the difference is magified if you don't play correctly. With Rae1, your rook on f1 is now basically useless, and your king has only one escape square. I've gotten draws in losing poitions using only the dark squared bishop and rook on the open H file. Have to make sure you make the most of your piece.

(going to show a quick variation of how your dominating position becomes less dominating if your opp. played slightly better in the analysis)

I thought ... that position should be easier to convert to a checkmate than I made it.  I also thought he could have broken my attack with a queen trade.

I missed how badly I cramped my queen with the rook movements. Oh, on the pin of e7, I knew it at one point, but still considered myself unable to safely capture g6.  These nests of pieces covering each other get confusing!

Thanks for the analysis, Music!

No issue, but do you mind explaining what you mean (the part I bolded) here?

In move 20, you pointed out that the knight on e7 is pinned.  That knight was the only thing preventing me from Qg6+.

Then again ... that could have provoked a queen trade, which would have broken my attack.

Due to lack of time available to get online I have has to play many games through the Android app but I wanted to post a game where Black achieves a win in a very hard fought ending of K+R v K+4p, the result of trying to hold all material instead of simplifying the position. Game is from a thematic based English tournament. I had played gerdes88 before and knew the rating did not reflect his level of playing ability and so this became a tough match indeed despite the ratings variance. 3dy/move online match.

When I said that, I didn't mean take Qxg6, I meant start taking advantage of the pin. In your following moves, none of them celerbrated the pin on the queen. When you are dominating like you were, you should be thinking about diversions, removing defenders, etc.

I know you saw after move 22 that the king was stuck in the corner, with no moves thanks to your exellect queen, and that if you could get your bishop to f6, it would be mate. At this point you should be thinking 'what's the quickest way to get mate'

The only defender of the f6 square for Black is the Knight on d5. Your plan from that moment forward should be removing the Knight from that square. Those variations I posted were doing just that, removing the Knight from that square, celebrating the pin of the queen, and undermining the Knight by placing your rook on e3, daring him to take with the Knight and threatening another mate.

In that game you played very good positional chess, but part of positional chess is taking advantage of your superior position with tactics. Improving on that aspect alone would make wins easier.