Member Game Analysis with GM Jesse Kraai

POST YOUR GAME BELOW to have it analyzed by GM JESSE KRAAI on 
Wednesday December 30th on www.twitch.tv/chessdojolive

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3 HOURS LONG! 

The goal of the show is to help you analyze your games - the true path to improve your chess. So write out as much of your thinking as you can in your annotations. Tell us where the game was played and the time control too. If you look up past threads you will find many fine examples of amateur players writing about their games.

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I changed my username because I hated my old username, Paul_in_NJ, and wanted something chess related. I also hate the way I play chess, but changing that is much harder. What should make this game especially interesting is that my opponent, maxmlynek, submitted his own annotations, so the game will be annotated from both sides. This was a 45+30 Ladder game played on November 21. It was a rematch after our first game, in which I was crushed, so I began the game feeling even more pessimistic than usual. I was going to submit our first game, but he convinced me that our second game would be more interesting to be reviewed on stream. I will use M: to denote maxmlynek's annotations. Playing against me was so easy that he ended the game with more than 50 minutes on his clock. Perhaps I will submit our first game for a stream in 2021.

Last month, GM Kraai asked me to submit a game in which I beat my opponent badly. I was uncomfortable submitting a vanity game for the stream, and I learn more from my losses anyway, but if anyone wants to see a game in which I played competently, I submitted it near the end of the thread for the November game reviews. This can be seen here.

I resigned after move 32. The moves beginning with 33 were a suggested continuation from maxmlynek. I didn't know how to post that properly.

[Event "Maxim883 vs. Rafi-Ul-Mulk"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2020-12-14"] [White "Maxim883"] [Black "Rafi-Ul-Mulk"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1235"] [BlackElo "1113"] [TimeControl "blitz"] [Termination "Rafi-Ul-Mulk won on time"] 1. e4 c5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 e6 5. O-O h6 6. Qe2 Be7 7. d3 Nf6 8. Nc3 Nd4 9. Qd1 O-O 10. Nxd4 cxd4 11. Ne2 e5 12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Ng3 Be6 14. Bd2 Bxc4 15. dxc4 Qc8 16. b3 a5 17. Qc1 Kh8 18. Bxh6 gxh6 19. Qxh6+ Nh7 20. Nf5 Bf6 21. g4 Rg8 22. h3 Bg5 23. Qh5 Bf6 24. h4 Qf8 25. g5 Bxg5 26. hxg5 Rxg5+ 27. Qxg5 Nxg5 28. Kf2 Nh3+ 29. Ke2 Nf4+ 30. Kd2 Qg8 31. Rh1+ Qh7 32. Rxh7+ Kxh7 33. Rh1+ Kg6 34. Ne7+ Kf6 35. Nd5+ Nxd5 36. cxd5 Rg8 37. Rh6+ Ke7 38. Rd6 Kxd6 0-1

Hi

This is a OTB game from before the pandemic, as P.hD thesis, pandemic and two children is making it difficult to get any long games in these days.

While I win the game it showed quite of few problems in my game.

(1)A lack of planning in the middle game, this is especially true in structures where the position is somewhat symmetric.

(2) Not looking for the best blows, an example is 18.f4 as an obvious move to consider.

(3) Getting a winning position, but being unable to find a killing blow, this get me more and more frustrated. When I am then surprised by a move, I overreact in an attempt to not let the game slip

hmm

K

excited

good

Hi, my name is Julian, I'm a huge fan of ChessDojo. This is a 60min+30s game I played as white, I'm pretty sure I starting messing it up around move 12-13.

Wow

good

great

trav , nice game