Why did he retire?
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This was one of my first games here. (and my first post) I've made some mistakes in the game which noticed. Why did he retire? I've looked over the final position and I dont think that I have such a huge advantage. Am I missing something?
You have a good positional advantage, as Black's defense is fragmented. Your pieces can all be activated in turn, but, because of your opponent's fragile defence requires the use of most of his pieces, you can simply attack his tenuous position.
mabe he isnt a frequent user of chess.com
Unbeliever, you gotta be kidding me. It is going to take white a long time to do anything productive with his bishop and consequently the rook that is stuck behind it. There is not really a good reason to resign based on the position. Perhaps your opponent just didn't feel like playing any more.
ok
for you, 22. g3 was bad, g4 would be better!! to avoid Qh5+
or get ready for .. Kxg4 23.. Qxg4 Qxg4 24..fxg4
for 27. Qb5
My suggestion is Qd8
finally, I dont agree with his resignation, that was stupid ( he can do a lot of things)
"or why i didnt here. i had a material advantage, and the queens would be gone"
This is your coment afther 25...move
You didn't have a material advantage.He had 2 pieces againts 1 rook.
2 pieces are stronger than rook.
Black should play.In this position afther move 27...c6 black has active game and better position.Your bishop on f1 is closed.Your rook on h1 is also weak piece. Black bishop is strong piece.His rook is great pressure on your King's side.Black next good move would be 28...Qd5 now you must play 29.h3 because of (29...Nxg4) you can't play fxg4 because of check.Because of that 29.h3 would be necessary.Resign was big mistake.
8.cxd5 black could play 8...Bxf2+ 9.Ke1 Qxc2+ 10.Kxc2 Bxh3 11.Nxh3 Bb6
I agree with Loomis. While black's king is rather open, white isn't in a position to do anything about it. Black has a ton of attacking chances as long as he mobilizes all his pieces towards the kingside. He has a rook, bishop, pawn, knight, and queen aiming for your king. White definitely should have lost this game.
Check the guys other games. It could be that he simply doesn't want to play here anymore and resigned on all of his games.
I must say I couldn't fathom some of the moves by both sides. Exchanging Qs when you were a pawn up seemed to be the best.
You made him retire from chess? You're good...
fischer wrote: You made him retire from chess? You're good...
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Loomis wrote: Unbeliever, you gotta be kidding me. It is going to take white a long time to do anything productive with his bishop and consequently the rook that is stuck behind it. There is not really a good reason to resign based on the position. Perhaps your opponent just didn't feel like playing any more
I apoligize, was fairly tired when I wrote that :(. My thought was to use the King to Black's rook, but I somehow missed the discovered Check on the King if the rook moves. I am not sure how I missed that, thank you for correcting my reasoning.
Okay, I got a few comments and improvements on this game 
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1) 5. Qxc6! and white wins the black bishop by 5...., Lxf2 (if 5...., bxc6 then 6. Nxc5) 6. Kxf2, bxc6
2) Instead of 10. f3 white should play 10. Qxc5, Qxe4 11. Qxc7 with a good advantage.
3) 12..., Bxe4?. Instead black should play 12..., Bg6! with a nearly even game.
4) 17. Ne6, Kxe6 18. Qe4+ followed by 19. d4 looks better than what white played in the game.
5) 18. Qe4?? is a blunder. Instead white should play 18. e3, and then fx. 18...,Qb4 19. Bd2, Qxb2 20. Rd1, Kxg7 21. Qe4 and white has a winning position.
6) Near the ending black has a strong move. 27..., Nxg4!!. White can't play 28. hxg4, because of: 28..., Qe6 29. Qf5, Qc6+ 30. Qf3, (better than 30. Kf2, Rf3 (double check) 31. Ke1, Rxf5) 30..., Rxf3 31. exf3 and black has winning material and winning position. The best solution for white on 27..., Nxg4 is 28. h4, Re5 29. Qa4, Ne3+ and black has a slight advantage because of his positional and attack on the white king.
7) The final position is a little unclear to me, but I am convinced that black has a little advantage, and therefore I don't understand why he resigns. White has to cover g4 with the queen now, and a main line could be like: 28. Qb4, Qd5 29. Rg1, Na6 30. Qe1 and white has serious problems:
- The bishop and the king-rook has problems developing
- Black controls the black squares, which is the weak squares around the white king.
- White has no good plan for counterattack, and just have to defend himself, and that already indicates that black has the advantage.
So, I really don't know why he resigned. Maybe - like others have said - he just wanted to resign all of his games...
I didnt mean "retire," i meant resign. had a few things on my mind when writing that.
Thanks for the input. i did not even think about most of the positions mentioned. looks like i have a lot more to learn.
and why does the board start at move 5. the move list shows the entire game?