We need more amateurs to post their annotated games.

2.Bc4: Prevents the powerfull Kf7??

I think Kf7 must be the worst move in the opening :p.

2.Bc4 was played to develop the bishop to a good square and targetting the weakened f7 square, maybe with the intention of preventing you to castle kingside for the short term.

9.Bxc3 Here your opponent is standing way better. He has almost finished development and has more center control. After 9 moves, you only have your knight developped, due to the many needless pawn moves. These pawn moves have also blocked in your light squared bishop and queenside knight.

12.gxf6 Your kingside is now very weak. The most of your army is on the queenside. You were lucky your opponent didn't find the best moves to exploit that.

13.Nf5 When you have no clear plan, it's better to get your other pieces out instead of moving a piece twice. Nd7 would have been better.

14. Qg8 There really is no quick kill because his king is to safe. You more blocked in your rook on the h-file.

15. g3 Needless move. Bb1 was way more active.

18. Rg1 followed by g4 would have won your knight.

19-22: Very inaccurate play. You lost a pawn and a queen for a bishop with no compensation at all. You even gave your opponent a strong pass pawn.

24. c6?? Bc7 was way better.

27. hxc3???? Waaw, what a blunder!! fxc3 was the obvious correct move.

Thomas

There is actually a mate in 3 at the end. After 14. Bxd6, which is his very best move, you have the very strong Qxf6!

If he plays Qxf6, he loses because of the nice mate Nxf6#.

If he plays Bf8 ( his only other defense to the mate tread on g7) , you can take his queen with Qxd8 and mate on f8 is unstoppable.

Thomas

well i did have some counter play on that last one, if i had taken his queen i would be in a winning endgame

Panafricain,

After 23.....ke7  Re1 wins

steve

Was that a reaction on my comment? Because you never had an option of taking his queen.

Thomas

Here's an OTB game I posted with some annotations fairly recently. It's quite interesting in that neither player shyed away from sharp lines - I'm sure both sides' play could be improved but it was fun and should be quite entertaining to play through. I've included some commentary from the original thread in the annotations.

 actualy instead of playing mate on move 28 i could have played Bxb7 entering a won endgame for me

Thanks gaberial! The only threat I saw with the queen and knight when I looked over this game again was losing a lot of material and a threat to my queen. Never saw the mate, glad he didnt either!

! Didn't see that, good line.

Not much I can offer, but very well played KageLord!

That's true, but that's not counterplay gain from the 'sacrifice'. Your opponent saw he couldn't stop the mate after his huge blunder, so he hoped to distract you.

14...Ba5 pins my Queen to my king, so I can't checkmate. Anyways, I didn't see that til an after-game analysis.

Yes, I didn't see that. Having that Black's reply im mind, probably 11.Be2 was a good option. It weakens the d5 square, but Black shouldn't play 11...d5 because he doesn't have enough control of it. Then it will be possible to reposition the f3 knight to h4 (preparing for f4-f5) or g5 for example.

Ow indeed, I missed that option :p. I'd like to see the best continuation, helped by a chess engine. It really looks like a mate in .. problem!

Yep, I used Fritz to check if my analysis was correct. I completely missed 14...Ba5, but asides from that my analysis is quite correct.

http://blog.chess.com/gimce/first-game-analyzed

I did this for my own improvement, however, if anyone is interested, here you go.