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Member Analysis with GM Jesse Kraai
USI--United State of Israel. Why wasting time to vote when they already picked agent Trump for the next round.
I have submitted some shameful losses to GM Kraai for his monthly review, but this is possibly the worst one yet. That's saying something, considering that I once lost in 18 moves against the Goldsmith Defense (1. e4 h5). A game like this makes me want to quit chess and shows why I am so pessimistic about my playing. Usually I don't do the computer analysis for games I plan to submit to GM Kraai, but I was so angry that I ran this by the chess.com computer literally within a few seconds of resigning. Even after seeing the computer analysis, I still can't figure out how I blew this game. The position evaluation was
+9 at one point, but I still lost a game that 99.9999% of chess players would have won. This was a Daily Chess game (three days to make a move) played in October.
One hour and 42 minutes after the game ended on October 24, I received an e-mail from chess.com with the subject line, "Keep Up With Your Chess Lessons!" My next lesson was, "Winning The Won Game." Even chess.com was taunting me.
I recently played this game in a local tournament with weekly rounds. The time control was G60 d5. I wasn't disappointed with a draw, but even in post-game analysis with the benefit of an engine, I don't really know how I could've pressed for more of an advantage. I didn't feel as though there were many sharp positions with tactical opportunities, and the engine didn't mark any massive positional blunders, so I'm struggling to pinpoint the moments where I could've gained more of an edge.

That game was from a daily tournament in a club. Can you see if I made errors or could have improved my play? Thanks!


Played on phone with no time control. Why draw ? [Event "Vs. Computer"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2020-10-30"] [White "Super Grandmaster"] [Black "MotaUA"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Termination "Draw by repetition"] 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O cxd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 Nf6 8. Nc3 Be7 9. e4 dxe4 10. Qxd8+ Bxd8 11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Be7 13. Be3 a5 14. f4 Ra6 15. Rad1 O-O 16. c4 f5 17. Bf3 Bf6 18. Bd4 Bxd4+ 19. Rxd4 Rb6 20. Rd2 a4 21. Rc1 Ra6 22. c5 Kf7 23. Bxb7 Bxb7 24. Rd7+ Kf6 25. Rxb7 Rc8 26. b4 axb3 27. axb3 Ra2 28. b4 Rd8 29. c6 Rdd2 30. c7 Rg2+ 31. Kh1 Rxh2+ 32. Kg1 Rag2+ 33. Kf1 Rf2+ 34. Kg1 Rhg2+ 35. Kh1 Rh2+ 36. Kg1 Rhg2+ 37. Kh1 Rh2+ 38. Kg1 1/2-1/2
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