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Noxxion
Aug 18, 2010
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again dont make moves u lose a pawn in and dont make bad exchanges
Playing h5 on moves 20-23 would have saved you a lot of grief. If white can't play on the kingside, his f3 knight needs to be relocated (a difficult task if e5 is pressured) and the remaining play will happen on the queenside where black should be able to cement his advantage.
White could be somewhat desperate and try Ng5 with sacs looming around black's king (f7, g6, e6) but at a glance I'm not very impressed with that... especially after the queen is on e7 and ready to defend along the 7th rank. White will end up with only two attackers and not be able to overwhelm black (even if it looks scary) and in the end would just be down more material.
I did do a fair bit of analysis on this game.... but unfortunatly, the save & preview button does not save and does not preview :(
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Blackadder wrote:
I did do a fair bit of analysis on this game.... but unfortunatly, the save & preview button does not save and does not preview :(
didn't even know they had such a feature on here!
Apparently we don't
A few moves that stand out:
13... Nh4. Why?
23... Rxc1. That was a perfectly good file you just gave away! 
I'd go 23...f5, and now he's got no space. 24. exf6 ep is just appallingly bad for him (...Qxf6 and he has a lot of bad options).
28...Qf7. I love this sequence... forces him to wreck his own position.
31...Rxa3 I think is what loses the game. 31...h5 avoiding a bunch of Ng5, Rxh7 nonsense. There's no reason to chase the a-pawn; if you decide you can just mop up material later, it's not like the White position is going to suddenly un-suck.
Aaaand you lose an endgame that just looks worse to me the entire time.
Blackadder wrote:
I did do a fair bit of analysis on this game.... but unfortunatly, the save & preview button does not save and does not preview :(
That used to really upset me. I found out that ctrl+a (selects all) and then ctrl+x / ctrl+v (cut and paste) saves it securely to your clipboard. Yes even the diagrams. That way chess.com can't devour your comment, never to be seen
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taggett wrote:
A few moves that stand out:
13... Nh4. Why?
23... Rxc1. That was a perfectly good file you just gave away! I'd go 23...f5, and now he's got no space. 24. exf6 ep is just appallingly bad for him (...Qxf6 and he has a lot of bad options).
28...Qf7. I love this sequence... forces him to wreck his own position.
31...Rxa3 I think is what loses the game. 31...h5 avoiding a bunch of Ng5, Rxh7 nonsense. There's no reason to chase the a-pawn; if you decide you can just mop up material later, it's not like the White position is going to suddenly un-suck.
Aaaand you lose an endgame that just looks worse to me the entire time.
the main problem with correspondence chess is that your strategy isn't as connected to your previous thought since you are playing other games simultaneously, they intermingle with one another and creates confusion.
orangehonda wrote:
Blackadder wrote:
I did do a fair bit of analysis on this game.... but unfortunatly, the save & preview button does not save and does not preview :(
That used to really upset me. I found out that ctrl+a (selects all) and then ctrl+x / ctrl+v (cut and paste) saves it securely to your clipboard. Yes even the diagrams. That way chess.com can't devour your comment, never to be seen
i do know from experience that I should never trust chess.com to actually save my diagrams, but...it seems i just dont learn from my mistakes...:(
oh, heres a quick bit of analysis ive mostly constructed from memory. many of the lines are give are not best play, they are meant to just show particular ideas. I'm not going to write out all my comments again, so you will just have to figure it out...
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#11
thanks for the analysis, i don't have this kind of penny-pinching ability you guys have...
Noxxion wrote:
taggett wrote:
A few moves that stand out:
13... Nh4. Why?
23... Rxc1. That was a perfectly good file you just gave away! I'd go 23...f5, and now he's got no space. 24. exf6 ep is just appallingly bad for him (...Qxf6 and he has a lot of bad options).
28...Qf7. I love this sequence... forces him to wreck his own position.
31...Rxa3 I think is what loses the game. 31...h5 avoiding a bunch of Ng5, Rxh7 nonsense. There's no reason to chase the a-pawn; if you decide you can just mop up material later, it's not like the White position is going to suddenly un-suck.
Aaaand you lose an endgame that just looks worse to me the entire time.
the main problem with correspondence chess is that your strategy isn't as connected to your previous thought since you are playing other games simultaneously, they intermingle with one another and creates confusion.
Speaking as someone who recently hung a mate-in-one in an equal position in a tourney... yeah, I know what you mean. 
I'm kinda new to correspondence, but I use the "Notes" function a lot for this stuff, especially complicated tactical games where I shouldn't spend twenty minutes recalculating the same things every move.
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