We need more amateurs to post their annotated games.

Well done!

Lol, we all have to play The Kings Gambit at some stage or we simply aren't real chess players!

-->> EVEN MIKE TYSON REMINDED US WE HAVE TO BE HUMBLE...

yes itis a draw. the king cannot be shifted from the corner.

Here is a game I lost. I'd like to know where I started to go wrong. Also I resigned because I was going to lose my bishop, but was it too soon?

hrb264: you opening was too pasive, which is not a big problem. Just try to be more active and figth fot that center.

Move 15 I have no idea why you exchange a rook for a pawn. Then you follow with giving away the Knigth for nothing on move 16.

Move 19 ... Rxd6 taking that bishop seams like a better option. Of course ataking the Queen with the bishop worked for you, becouse whites make a mistake, if they take the rook with the Knigth then they win the rook for free.

At the time you resigned, you could have take the knigth with your queen, and be down a pice. Still a very posible difference to lose the game, but I think there was reasons to keep on figthing.

hey, thanks for that. a lot of the reason why i played so badly (and the knight thing was a total mistake) was that i was trying to set up a fork of black's queen with the rook, but i went about it completely the wrong way :(

i spent about twenty moves trying to do that whereas i should have either forgotten about it or done it in a few moves ...

Ah, ok, I see the fork. Yeah didn't worked that well after all. Still the idea of making forks and stuff is good. The worse posible situation is when there is not plan at all, as sometimes I blank and have no idea what to do. Having a plan and going for it is the good thing to do, no matter how many moves it takes. In some of the master level games they spend a lot of moves to win a weak pawn, becouse that is the plan.

Eventually your plans will become more acurate on the execution.

The Rook sacrifice: The rule is never to do sacrify if you are not 100% sure that you will compensate.

About the Knigth. Someone told me tht if a player avoid leaving pices on the air, will become better than 70% of playres out there.

yeah i was trying to get rid of white's e-pawn and the bishop because that was what was stopping me doing the fork. the problem is that i can't really see that far ahead. i'm never going to get good at this am i :D

I feel that this game epitomizes my most noticable issues in chess, mainly a poor pawn structure, pointless sacrifices, and poor planning.

@ andre, as early as move 2, you are gifted a free horse fyi, why refuse ? is it because of the bloody horse scene from The Godfather ? 

this is computer easy too, it blunders too much so it gives you too many winning chances lol.

But I hope in the future you can improve on your tactics and calculation.

Andrevius: Definitely a blunderful game there. If anything, you're just not thinking about your moves properly.

14: Nb5, definitely a blunder, as you yourself highlighted. If you were still determined to go for the fork, you could have accomplished it with Nxd5 instead, sacrificing a knight, but getting to c7 as you originally intended.

16: c4, you yourself realised how bad this move is, but there are far better alternatives. Nxd5 once again still aims for the fork, and cannot be recaptured due to discovered attack on the queen. You saw this a move later, but you could have spared yourself the lost c-pawn if you'd done it this turn. Nxd5 is better than Nxe6 in this case because if the bishop still captures the c-pawn, it is undefended and can be recaptured with the queen.

25: Re1 is an obvious mistake, but is there a reason you didn't start eating queenside pawns with the queen? c7 is completely open.

26: Rcc1, I think there are far better moves, yes. For one thing, f5 invites gxf5. If bishop captures on f5 after that, exf5 loses the Rook and lands him in check.

32: Qf7, why didn't you recapture the bishop with your rook instead?

34: Rh1+, obviously you realised your mistake after, but I believe that Qxa7 is a better move. Puts all of your pieces on dark squares, making his bishop offensively useless, and starts to take care of any pawn promotion prospects.

39: Kf2 onwards, much better than this series of moves is simply Qg5+. f5 is then possible, and the queen is also eyeing d2 and preventing the pawn from advancing.

51: f5, what were you trying to do with this? It just throws the pawn away. Ke4 is better.

57 onwards is simply poor K+Q endgame play. You clearly know where to improve, so just practice up and work on not blundering.

you couldn't say it better.

study the endgames ! there's no point in winning a pawn or a piece up in the opening and middlegame if you stalemate the enemy king or worse, losing the game in the end.

Jetfigher, you only ever post wins and practically all your annotations are just you marvelling at your own moves and criticising your opponent's.

More generally, people would gain more by posting losses and focusing on the flaws in their own moves.

Otherwise, I agree with the OP - and this is a good forum. 

I have returned, everyone!  I've got a fresh batch of five-minute blitz games for you all to look at!

In this first game, I use one of my favorite openings: the Dutch Stonewall.  Having been on break for over a month, I mixed up some move orders and found myself cramped early on.  He, however, made a very unfortunate eighth move.

This game was a bit longer than the last one, and gave me a chance to use the French Defense!  He played inaccurately and lost to a central blitzkrieg.

Here, I finally got a chance to try out my Bird Stonewall again, and I misplayed it terribly.

In this rematch with the same guy in the previous game, I pull out a win.  I misplayed some at the end, but he did too.

This is likely the most messed-up one of the lot.  I guess I was never really losing, but it sure seemed like it on a few occasions.

In this game, I played a move that I didn't prepare adequately enough, but he did not take advantage of this fact and I ended up winning.

Here,  my Dutch Stonewall gets taken down.  There was a lot of dumb stuff from me this game.

This was an quirky one.

This one featured a fisticuffs on the kingside early on.

This win was courtesy of my favorite unorthodox opening ever: the Hippopotamus!

In this next game, against a friend, I agreed to play an inferior opening vs. his Fried Liver Attack: Lolley Variation.  My inexperience with 1. e4, coupled with the fact that I don't think 4...h6 is a good move in the first place, led to me getting handily miniatured.

In this rematch against the same friend, I was allowed to pick my own opening.  Chalk up another win for the Bird Stonewall.

Sketchy Winawer French is sketchy.  I won this...but not because of the questionable positional moves I made early on.

I don't like it when people play the Sicilian against the Bird, but it seems to do okay.  I got completely outplayed here, and at the end I decided to give away a couple of free pieces for the heck of it before resigning.

I tried a couple of new things in this French Exchange.  It worked out for me in the end, but near the beginning, I think he played inaccurately at one move.

Alrighty, last one.  In this game, I decided to just try a weird opening and see what happened.  What happened was funny indeed.

I hope you enjoyed these!

@weaponking : I really enjoyed the games

thx !