My game against a master

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shiggsyo

Earlier today, I played chess master Vincent Klemm at County College of Morris in New Jersey. Here is my game against him.

So what do you all think? I'm pretty proud of this game. I'm open to compliments and criticism. I know my opening sucked, and I know that I moved my queen 10 out of 24 times, but somewhere in there I think I played really well.


maximus_dragon
thats not sicilian its english
GotGoose
Well, technically it's a reverse sicilian.  Nice job with the draw, by the way.  I'm not sure why he would offer one.
Nikelaos

He was probably overestimating you giving you the draw there

 Nice game anyway


renhoek

Well played!

It would be an even nicer story if your annotations were correct. More than once you refer to a white pawn on e5... all the while your black Queen is on e5.

Sadly you are not alone, it seems like I see annotation errors all too often here on chess.com.

But I knew what you were trying to say anyway, and what counts is your excellent draw!


shiggsyo
Sorry about my inaccuracies involving opening knowledge and annotations.... Innocent
sugaristan
that's an english opening. good draw
justice_avocado

well, for the sake of conversation, what if hadn't drawn? how about

25...Rxc4?

so then probably

26. Bxcw  Nxe4

and then all kinds of fun things could happen! what do you think? 


FearAndTrembling
Well played Sam. I think he was lucky to get away with a draw personally. Laughing
shiggsyo
Thanks Wink. I think what's cool about this game was that I started out behind, and then managed to equalize the position, meaning that I theoretically outplayed this master.
ChessGod

Great game.  I wonder what was going through the masters head at the time.  Smile

I'm a teenager too. I'll play you sometime if you want.


FreeCat
Congratulations, well played.
howian1

It's a funny game, black's play is unimpressive until it uncorks Bxf4 a very good move and then starts playing impressively.  Sadly Vince just passed away about a month ago.