Member Analysis with GM Jesse Kraai
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A classical tournament game from July 2020 in Austria.
Hi Jesse!
This is a game I played with one of ChessDojo community member. It was a rated game, agreed that the opponent is playing as Black against me in order to practice his new opening choice against e4. I didn't know what it would be thought, so I was not able to prepare.
Post game analysis was made without computer assistance and this is my first such a serious analysis so I am sure there are plenty of mistakes!
Location: https://lichess.org/eZJacPWS via ChessDojo community
Time Control: 30min+30s
White: Maciej Mazur (mamciek) (me)
Black: The_Dark_KnightSSGSS
Aug 17, 2020
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#7
GM Kraai has done some Twitch streams about Macho Rook Endings. The videos are available on the ChessDojo YouTube channel. If he ever decides to do a stream about Wimpy Rook Endings, he can use my game as an example (the way I played it, not the way my friend played it). I managed to get through the opening and middlegame without making a blunder, but then I threw away my drawing chances by having an idiotic plan that belies the saying that a bad plan is better than no plan. This was a Daily Chess game (3 days to make a move) played in June and July. I have not done the computer analysis. Incidentally, my friend (and opponent in this game) agrees with GM Kraai that I am too pessimistic about my chess
playing ability.
Hi Jesse, here is my game against NM Mike Fellman, where I botched a winning endgame due to lack of understanding paired with overconfidence.
What???
Hi Jesse,
I annotated this soon after I played the game (90+30, chess dojo round robin from last season) and added a few more thoughts to it today (especially with an alternative to the opening line I played, I analyzed Ng3 a bit). I've also included some lines that I clicked through to see where they lead, to support or disprove some of my intuitions that I've written about because calculating that far out is simply impossible for me, that doesn't mean I used the engine to make my initial assessment (and these are directly imported from my lichess study where I like to have these lines written out so that I can look back at them later).
Thanks!
Thanks!
Aug 18, 2020
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#12
There are some simple one move and tactical blunders and inaccuracies that I was able to catch during and directly after the game, however my positional mistakes are much harder to spot. I am also very unfamiliar with the sicilian opening and would like to know if I got some of the ideas right, and more importantly, what I inevitably got wrong. This was a 5|0 blitz game
Aug 19, 2020
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#14
Thank you, Jesse Kraai for the game analysis! Fun fact: I actually showed my dad on your analysis of our game, and he was not happy. lol! He didn't like that you basically said that he's an ''old man'' and that he made some ''terrible blunders''. And thanks for pointing out the mistakes.
Hope I can find more member analysis thread on chess.com
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