Annotation for Players of All Levels (Part 2) w/ 3 Sad Stories - Chess Forums

TasmanianTiger

Nov 9, 2014

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#1

Annotation for Players of All Levels (Part 2) w/ 3 Sad Stories

Hello,

Please find Story #1 in red, Story #2 in green, and Story #3 in brown.

Around a month ago (9/23/14), a great travesty befalled me. I was annotating a game form the previous day (9/22), and was completely done with anotations. I went to add a smiley face at the end of the post, and pressed "Submit". But alas!, 'tis not to be, for no sooner had I clicked the button that the screen changed to say (I am paraphrasing here) " You have not entered a forum category for your post. Please enter a forum category". Ok, I think to myself. I go to change it, and ... my whole entire post is ... gone! How can this be? 2 and a half hours of work completely wasted. I was anguished, sad, and extraordinarily upset that such an unfortunate mishap could befall me. (By the way, the aforementioned game that I spent 2 and a half hours annotating will not be re-annotated by myself, for doing so will just get me hyped up, frustrated, and upset again. If you want to see the game, click on the link below.) *If you have any words of wisdom regarding why this happened, please let me know.*

To let off steam, and to try to vent off my anger, I ... you guessed it ... played a chess game! The outcome of this game was decisive, and this lifted my spirits up. A few days later, I decided to annotate the game that I had played to vent off my anger into the chessboard. But this time, I was wary that perhaps chess.com would, one way or another, delete my post after I was done. I submitted the post (and made sure to copy and paste all the text of the annotations in the said game), and - lo and behold - my post somehow got deleted. Luckily, I had copied and pasted the text, and so it got preserved. Unluckily, the format of the game (with Chess Wizard) and the previous text (pretty much a paraprase of the whole red story) was completely lost.

Third time is the charm, right? Apparently not for me, it seems. Around a week ago, I typed my two fateful stories. And then I lost all the work I had. Luckily I had not started my annotation yet, so no annotations got lost. Unluckily I had already written my two stories (red and green ones), so that got lost.

In summary:

I've written the red story: 3 times

I've written the green story: 2 times

I've written the purple story: 1 time

Now, without further ado, let us jump into my "revenge" game I played after losing 2 and a half hours of annotations (and many more since). (P.S. As a safety measure, I just copied and pasted everything I have written up to now.)

Please give me feedback on my annotations, and let me know what you think of my game! Thank you very much, and have a nice day! :-)

TasmanianTiger

Nov 14, 2014

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#2

Odds and Ends

This post is the second part of "Annotation for Players of All Levels) and I hope to come out with a new part roughly once a week.

Incidentally, below is the game I spent 2.5 hours annotating, but it all got lost.

And secondly, here is the link to "Annotations for Players of All Levels - Part 1".

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/annotation-for-players-of-all-levels---feedback-please

hapless_fool

Nov 14, 2014

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#3

Great game. I learned from it. I don't think I've ever played a ! move in my life.

TasmanianTiger

Nov 14, 2014

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#4

Thank you! You probably have I think :) I bet you you're better than you give yourself credit for!