What went wrong??
as for WHAT went wrong, almost every single move except for your first one was dubious. actually, make that EVERY single move. after the first one, none of your moves are good, and your annotations are rubbish.
figure it out yourself! dont post games for the pure purpouse of having others find your mistakes!
You're kind of crabby today, Alchemist
Bad luck for you-- you only managed to be a member of chess.com for 1 day before you got crabbed all over by FullMental. Pay him no mind-- lots of people post games here in the Game Analysis forum. After all, the official description for the forum is
Need help analyzing one of your finished games? Post it here and let the community examine it!
As for the game, you got caught sort of flat-footed and never managed to get your pieces out where they could do some good. When your opponent opens with 1.e4 you're probably best to respond with a pawn move of your own, either to take on his e-pawn or make your own claim to some central squares. Replying with 1...Nf6 (Alekhine opening) has the problem of getting chased by 2.e5 , and 1...Nc6 just allows White's second pawn to grab the center, and also doesn't open up either of your Bishops or your Queen-- they're still locked up. After 4.d5 White had a mobility lead of 40-20, and you were on the defensive for the rest of the game.
1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 could still have been OK with a second move by you of 2...d5 , 2...e5 , or even 2...d6 , but by bringing out the second Knight you were in trouble.
@fullmetalalchemist First I was under the impression that this forum was made to help users figure out what mistakes were made.
Second relax, no need to come at me the way you did. Im a beginner at chess its obvious, i just wanted someone to help me with obvious mistakes that i made for someone at MY LEVEL.
Im sure at some point you were a beginner too and needed help, so why flame me? how else am i suppose to learn?
And thanks for everyone else for pointing out the mistakes that i made. Next time i'll keep in mind to open up with a pawn.
Study the games of the masters, play it over again and again but observe
carefully how they develop their pieces during the game.
Hi, I'm a beginner too, but I noticed that on move 13, I think Black can safely capture Qxb5. You said you wanted your Queen to defend f7, but after 14. Nxf7 Rxd5 Black not only moves one of his Rooks away from the White Knight's attack but also forces White to waste a tempo moving his Queen. Meanwhile, like others have said you should keep practicing with your opening, especially to avoid tempo-wasters like what you did with your g8-Knight. Good luck!
Gometo, do you know how to use opening explorers such as this one at 365chess.com ?
http://www.365chess.com/opening.php
If you're playing a correspondence game, it's legal to consult such openers during your game to help you learn some of the better and worse ways to respond to various opening moves and lines. In a live game it's not legal to consult during the game, but you can look at the explorer afterwards and see what sorts of options were available and what the outcomes were in games in the database that played those moves (which percent were won by White, which by Black, etc.). You don't want to get caught up in comparing exact winning percentages, especially for lines without many games, but these explorers are nice for seeing different options, and as a first approximation, which moves are most popular and successful and which are probably best avoided.
With the 365chess explorer, you can't drag the pieces on the board. Instead, you click on the next desired move from the table on the right. For each move it shows the number of games in the database for which that was the next move played from the current position, along with the percentages of those games that ended with White wins (green portion), Black wins (red portion), and draws (grey portion). If you were thinking about a move that doesn't appear on the list, it means there aren't any stored games in which that move was made. If there are only a couple games total, the move you're considering might still be OK, but if there are lots of games and still none of them made your move, there's a reason, and you should look for what is wrong with the move.
As an example, if you enter the first 3 moves from your game in the 365chess explorer, you can see they have a total of 3828 games that reached that position. The most popular move by Black at this point was 2...d5 which was played in 2005 of those games, and Black won 39.4% of those 2005 games compared to 39.0% won by White. In contrast, the move you made, 2...Nf6 , was made in only 36 games, and White won 91.7% of those 36 games, so you can see it was overwhelming a bad move for Black.
Chess.com also has a game explorer (under the "learn" drop-down menu), but for non-paying members it's essentially useless, sometimes only allowing a second move to be examined before it shuts off for that line. For paid memberships it allows examination for as many matching moves as have been played in at least 1 game in the database being examined.
Thanks Deacon for the advice.
@Aggron yea it would have been a better move. I was just in tunnel vision and was too busy trying to hold on to my two rooks. But it cost me the game lol. Next time i have to pay more attention to other options i have, and not just focuse on one thing.
A lot of things went wrong for black. The way black opened was very dangerous for black, I would suggest for black to have done either the sicillian or kings pawn on his first move, and his second move was a horrible counter developing blunder try reading up on openings some more, and/or play a few dozen games like the first 10 moves only vs some computers most have opening books to get better at opening.
as for WHAT went wrong, almost every single move except for your first one was dubious. actually, make that EVERY single move. after the first one, none of your moves are good, and your annotations are rubbish.
10...O-O-O is dubious?
as for WHAT went wrong, almost every single move except for your first one was dubious. actually, make that EVERY single move. after the first one, none of your moves are good, and your annotations are rubbish.
10...O-O-O is dubious?
10..exxageratrion is dubious.
Here are a few opening tips I can give you that are a good rule of thumb, meaning they are the right thing to do most of the time, but not all the time however a lot of the time this is what you should be doing~
-Try to control the center four squares... most attacks must go through the center if you control it, you will be better off.
-Try not to move your pieces more than one time until every minor piece is off the back row. The exception being when your pieces are being threatened or you need to control a key square.
-Keep your king protected, don't let your opponent make an attack at your king, early on your king is most vulnerable a lot of power is out there floating around.
-Try not to bring your queen out too early, your opponent will most likely develop his pieces to harrass your queen costing you tempos, and gaining him space and development.
-Castle soon if it is safe to do so
-Try to avoid making your pawn structure weaker (unless for a good reason, like an attack)
-Just use common sense
-Do not attack unless you can follow through with the attack, meaning don't pointlessly throw a bishop check at your opponent if all he has to do is toss a pawn up and chase your bishop away you will be the one under attack soon, a pointless check can hurt your development, don't swing unless you have force behind it!
-Try to gain space, but avoid over extending yourself it is a balance you must find.
-Coordinate your pieces, no single piece is good alone you need to have your pieces working together.
-Strike at your opponents weaknesses, not his strengths
gomelo, I'm glad you asked, because I did not know about 365.com.
And thanks, Cystem_Phailure, for also explaining how to use it. BYW, my older son is one month older than you and lives in Ypsilanti. However, he is now in China until January teaching conversational English.
I'm glad to spread the word about 365chess. If you register (free) you can store multiple opening lines at whatever point in the moves you want. For instance, if you have 5 ongoing correspondence games in a thematic tournament with a new opening for you, you could track all 5 games as they go without having to re-enter all the moves each time you want to look one of them up.
Crosspinner, I know Ypsi a little. I lived in Ann Arbor for 11 years, and for the last 3 I lived in the southeast portion of town near the Ann Arbor-Ypsi border.
Crosspinner, I know Ypsi a little. I lived in Ann Arbor for 11 years, and for the last 3 I lived in the southeast portion of town near the Ann Arbor-Ypsi border.
I enjoy going to Ann Arbor and eating at those ethic restaurants. My older son plays chess, but not well. Unfortunately, I am not able to visit him much. He can fly free, so he comes to visit me. Makes sense, right? Even then we have little time to play chess.
Until joining chess.com I was starving for chess information and chess friends. This site is like a chess-oasis in the middle of non-chess players for me.