Beautiful Endgame, My Most Epic Game So Far

I'm a hobby player who takes mistakes even at the beginning often. This is our second game between my oppponont and me. The first one was a win by him because I lost my Queen quickly by not caring of her.

He played this second game very defensively ( I guess our first game influenced him). I think I did a key move at move 14. It let the knights to work and have better position to attack eventually.

I had my plan for a beutiful end game at move 27. and prayed hard if he would let me do it. I wanted to give mate by sacrifice.  I usually can't count so many moves in advance neither did in this case, but I've seen the final 2-3 moves if I can properly prepare.

Well he didn't play very well in this stage I think. He might have kept his focus on one thing only: he is under a strong attack. He could save his game after my 35th move. No one of us were aware of the advantage an alternate move with his Queen. Only Crafty suggested it!!

There was no help thereafter :)

Ok I see you are both much higher rated than me, but I think that your whole analyze is kind of biased and that black lost becouse he failed to see one simple thing. 

Your E pawn is weak, and he should have focused all his energy on your D pawn.  

4. Ne7 is not a bad move, black simply does not know why it is a good move. Followed with 5.Nf6 6.c5 and he would have traded both your senter pawns for his c pawn. And if you try to stop him 7.Nc6 would seal the deal.

Even 5.Nf5 could have worked, if he had used the c pawn. Your D pawn is as good as dead once he takes d4 anyway. 

8.a3 I think is a mistake. I am guessing you did it to prevent Bb4. In my oppinion it would be better for you to lat him have the knight and take with the pawn. 

9.  Nc4 move seems odd. You say you made a mistake when you moved your queen, but I think it worse that you retreated your queen before taking on move 13/14

Now you have full senter control, and he have spent alot of moves manuvering his bishops into the worst positions. I cant find a wors position for his light bishop, then the one he spent a move placing it at. 

As for the endgame, it was a thing of beuty. but the match was over at move 14 :) 

I think you did well, and you should be proud of your win, but I also think black played well below you in standard. 

Hola! Thanks for your comments.

Take no comparison to our ratings. We play almost exclusively standard games on a different server with different rating system. My rating on this site is also not for real, because I play rarely and with one friend only.

I agree that my opponent played weaker than me in this game. I gambled on psyhology, after I noticed he is playing very defensively. I agree how he could have played during the opening. However  I think he has played an opening he isn't comfortable with. (neither I would be)

Your guess on 8. is right, I wanted to block out his black Bishop of the game. At this stage I alredy wanted a closed game using Knight(s) rather then Bishops. That is why I traded my white Bishop for one of his knight soon and took his black one as soon as it was possible. White Bishops had no big roles in this game. 

9. any suggestion? because I think I had no choice. I wanted to see his Knight somwhere else than a constant threat at my back.  My mistake was to not take it imediatly when he moved Nc4.

I've thought that the game was already over after half of the moves, but Crafty(the game analyzation by Crafty here, strong chess engine) said he could avoid the mate and I think he could  save his game for stalemate by infinite check or even win if I take mistake(s).

I also like the beauty of the endgame, that is why I've posted this game indeed. :)



 

ah it was 10. nc4 that was odd. I would have hit him with bishop right there. or you could have used your 9th move on moving your knight to a4 blocking his knight, its not like it does anything usefull where its now anyway. If he attacks you with his B pawn you retreat and he has even less material to attack d4 with. If he dont you can go b4 and Nc5. If he takes, you take with the B pawn and become even stronger. If he dont, atleast your knight is somewhere it can be used-  

"1. e4e6Very deffensive move, I think":

It's called the French Defence and is still played with success at the highest levels, among others by Alexander Grischuk, currently 4th in the world. It is a very solid defence against 1.e4, giving Black good counter-attacking possibilities on the Q-side. Your opponent obviously didn't know this however and chose poor continuations from move 2 onwards ...

Nice sac at the end though!

I disagree. It may be slow, but not defencive. Once the D pawn falls, its all out attack 

hey buddy.. well played.. know what i really liked the way you present the game in the forum, it was interesting reading.. post more games okay with your plannings.. this is a game i played today 1.e4 e6... 

I never said it was defensive; it just happens to be called a defence. The first sentence of my quote comes from the OP's analysis; I was pointing out to him that it's not nearly as defensive as it may look.

lolz I see it now. I read "e4e6 a very deffencive move " not as a qoute but as something you said. Sorry, I will go stand in the corner and shame myself now. 

No probs, you can come out of the corner now

Thank all for your participation. 

I wrote comments to some moves with ongoing thoughts as they occured while I played the game. I do not say I was right at all, but wanted to entertain those who takes their time to have a look on my game.   

Though, I'm really happy for analyzing comments of you. It's my profit indeed. :) I agree I could have done even better (I've found move 11. is a mistake in game yet.), but my feelings that my oppponent is going to play defensive and he isn't comfortable with the chosen opening were right.

I checked out an opening book after the game at once, I'm not familiar to this opening at all. However, it doesn't mean that I will rememeber next time how to play it well. I'm a hobby player only not studying to much of chess, but enjoying it as well as your comments. 

thanks