We need more amateurs to post their annotated games.

here is a interesting handling if the 5. 0-0 Exchange Spanish.

In 1660 is there seriously no way for black to stop the pawns? He has a passed pawn of his own and 2 pieces. Definitely an interesting position.

#1660 black traded too much. He could have used his material for tactical complications, rather than simplifying it to a more or less equal endgame (N for 2 pawns)

One of my best games:

One of your best games is a loss  Says it all.

A loss on time. It was five minutes.

Nxb5 is definitely not sound.

You are correct Scott. One of the things i am working on is how to play better in the Minor piece for 2 pawns positions to get better at my sacrifice lines, seeing if I can obtain sharp play and complications. Against higher rated players, I likely would not play this but i am working on attacking play chess now so I want to try to steer games into some odd positions.

G/10

i am wondering if my studying is reaching a plateau or if my play is as I am now in blitz 3-1-4 w-l-d in 10 mins games. i have not had this effect yet on my play but tell me what happened here in this Berlin Spanish Exchange: G/10

Where did White fail on this line?

This was the game against the highest rated opponent in MY chess history. :)
I managed to draw, so the result was 0,5 - 1,5. I think it was one of my best games.

@vengenge69

In the game from post 1670, you state that after 40... f5 you don't know what to do next. I was rather suprised when I read that, because black seems to have an easy plan: capture the a4 pawn and queen the a5 pawn. Because White will start eating your kingside pawns while your a-pawn storms down the a-file, you might want to play 41... g6 before you go after the a pawn.

After 41... g6  42. Kc2 Kb4  43. Kd3 Kxa4  44. Kxd4  Kb3 the position is easily won. In fact, white will only capture your h pawn the ply before your a pawn queens (you might prefer interjecting g5 at that point, but it's a simple win anyway).

Why didn't you immeditely for the a pawn? Why waste time developing your pawns?

Were you trying to give up the advantage?

Yereslov, you extended the game by 12 unnecessary moves since you could have check-mate him by 20.Qg8#

Studying each other's games is great but surely getting an IM, GM, NM or anyone higher than ourselves would help us understand. Some games grandmasters annotate make things easy to understand and we could probably improve better but studying grandmaster games with simple annotations, I don't have anything against studying each other's games.

I just began reading Dvoresky's Endgmae manual and that explains concepts that anyone around 1600 and up can assimilate easily but even still, some players who while having a 1600 online or Blitz rating here may actually have as low as a 1200 OTB to a 2000 OTB on the high end. if these indivduals are in the lower end, chances are they are not going to have an easy time grasping the concepts there.

I think the best thing here would be a mix of both amateur and master class annotation and analysis, similar to how Silman orchestrates his book, "The Amatuers Mind" or how GM Alburt will comment on annotated games submitted in Chess Life Magazine.

Michaelangelo's assessment of the g6 move prior to the take of the pawn gives Black a tempo on position else the game on White to play Kd2 will draw likely here. His idea is also present in a study on pawn passing that I saw several years back and I am now kicking myself for missing it.

From the position in which I credited the g4 pawn advance, I later analyzed it and the d3 pawn move I had suggested was in fact the winning line here. In fact it was present up until the move before I made it to win the game though as it was played later, the wins would prove more dificult.

Both players were in time trouble around move 40 (me for thought, my opponent due to extreme lag). What i have found is that in endings, especially ones with pawns only, I ned to give more tie to analyzing precisely the positions that come up that are newer and try to recognize familiar patterns to allow more intuitive play.

Still, Both you and Michaelangelo are correct that Blacks objective should have been to go for the a4 pawn once all play was secured for Black.

I really have to not read about Pal Benko before going to bed anymore.

Here is an immensely frustrating thing and if someone could analyze this with Rybka or Houdini I would appreciate it. My opponent disconnected in a winning position while in time trouble. Here is the game. As far as I can tell, this is a win for Black but I also have not been able to run through it yet. G/10

Any assistance here would be fine as I think White gets the bad side of this game if it plays out or draws.