some constructive criticism
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TheCryptt
Sep 18, 2016
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#1
Good afternoon everyone. I'm recently on a 4 game streak not a lot I know. I am a beginner for the most part. It would be greatly appreciated if someone higher up can look at my past 4 games or so and tell me if I'm playing good and what I can do better. Thank you everyone.
You would be better off analyzing your losses, and posting them for review.
Sep 18, 2016
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#3
4 games isn't a lot. In short, no. I'm not a good player either but you just have to focus on trying to see "if I move here, he will move there...." and blundercheck each move. A longer time control helps.
For example, the game you won on time you had just blundered your queen. Another second to check each move would help.
Sep 18, 2016
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#4
Yea I blundered my queen because of the time crunch. I knew he would run out of time but when I looked back at that game i saw it was dumb
so Just want to highlight the question
"am I good?"
a very common question. but. a very USELESS question.
sorry
any of us are
* good compared to some people
* awful compared to other people
Your "good" if you want to be....
I'm not prone to do much analysis for beginners, because IMHO analysis isn't as important as PSYCHOLOGY.
this is a FIghting game. you've got to really feel like your REALLY WANT to find the best MOVE, to Play to WIN. If you do that... you find more, see more and analyze better.
you've got to try to find the smartest, strongest and best move EVERY single move.
thats the game. thats the fight.
I find Some of the moves of a little strange, but I am far from familiar with the Scandanavian.
the idea NOT to recapture the dpawn with the Queen- which is the main line of the scandy
Not taking the e5 pawn on the 11th move. on the other hand, I've had real pennypinching problem in the past and perhaps it IS better for white to castle-
but again
I don't see it.
why can't white take the pawn?
also 27 h3 instead
does Re6+ rxr rxr K and Rxa work ?
after the rook are exchanged white no longer has to worry about Back Row mate cuz there isn't a peice that can Do Back row mate, right?
another thing to say, its that its usually MORE instructive to post a loss than a win.
remember, to a very strong player both Wins and Loses look pretty aimless, so including a Win because they make you look stronger doesn't work. all a NM (or whatever) sees is that your opponent played some REally, bad chess.
on the other hand, a master see's quickly what you couldn't find in the game and might still not see. and his thought process is instructive and useful. Even some of us Club players might have a useful understanding of what you did wrong.
in a game where you made lots of mistakes.
I had a look at a couple of your games. You develop your pieces and get castled early enough so you are making progress with understanding the opening principles. Where things go wrong is in leaving pieces en pris and overlooking two move combinations which would avoid material loss or make material gains. Three suggestions to help you improve about that are: to play through the tactic puzzles on this site each day; to play games with a longer time control; and to play over your games after they are finished looking to see if you can find moves where a piece was left en pris or any two move combination that you overlooked during the game.
Until you are not leaving pieces en pris you cannot hope to improve much.
To explain what I mean by a two move combination look at move eight in your game against Saqre. You re-captured with a knight which allowed your opponent to capture the knight left en pris to a pawn. Material finished up equal. Had you recaptured with the knight which was attacked by the enemy pawn your opponent could not then take any piece and you would have emerged a piece ahead.