Anyway, here is my first proper attempt at analysing one of my games. I don't even know if this is the sort of thing I should be producing. So if anyone would like to comment, both on the game, or on the kind of thing I looked at in my analysis, I'd be grateful for the advice.
[Event "Chester and District League, Division 2"]
[Site "Stamford Gate"]
[Date "2013.09.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Jones, Dewi"]
[Black "Chalk, Glenn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "1519"]
[BlackElo "1697"]
[Annotator "Jones,Dewi"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2013.09.02"]
[EventCountry "WLS"]
[WhiteTeam "Holywell"]
[BlackTeam "Colwyn Bay 2"]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Bc4 c6 6. Bd2 $6 {The computers opening book considers this an ok move, but it was a mistake, Nf3 is necessary first to stop the queen from setting up a double attack against b and d pawns.} (6. Nf3 Bg4 7. h3 Bh5) 6... Qb6 7. Bc1 {My poor previous move makes it necessary to waste time and allow black to catch up in development} Bf5 8. d5 { Against my stronger opponent it might have been wiser to continue development with Nf3 or something similar, but I wanted to make the pawn push before my opponent was properly prepared with his e pawn and Queen adding to the defence of the d5 square.} cxd5 9. Bb5+ Nc6 10. Nxd5 {Setting up a potential tactic. If the Q takes the B then there is a royal fork on c7.} Nxd5 11. Qxd5 {Here Bxc2 probably gives black a large enough advantage, though it leads to a few more complications with Be3 hitting the queen etc and thankfully he chose to retreat the bishop.} Bd7 12. Be3 Qa5+ 13. Bd2 Qc7 14. Nf3 Rd8 {With my development completed I should have castled here, but I thought I would set up a mate threat on the basis of you miss all the shots you don't take. It was a poor move.} 15. Ng5 e6 16. Qe4 {I wanted to go to f3, setting up the mate threat again, but ...Qe5+ looks a dangerous triple attack for black, and I'd also be open to a knight fork of the queen, bishop and c2 square.} h6 17. Nf3 a6 18. Bd3 Bd6 19. O-O-O {Castled queenside to avoid the bishop battery bearing down on h2 and the possibility of a Kside pawn storm dislodging my defensive knight.} Ne5 20. Nxe5 Bxe5 {Materially the postion is equal, and neither side has much of a positional advantage. Here I missed an elementary tactic, dropped the exchange and my game fell apart. Rh-e1 looks like the best move here.} 21. g3 Bc6 22. Qb4 {Qc4 which I saw immediately after pressing my clock, would at least have required black to find the Rd4 dislodging the queen. It's now game over.} Bxh1 23. Rxh1 Rxd3 24. Re1 Rd5 25. c4 Rc5 26. Rxe5 Qxe5 27. Bc3 Qc7 28. b3 O-O 29. Qa3 f6 30. Bb4 Rc8 31. Bxc5 Qxc5 32. Qb2 b5 33. Kb1 bxc4 34. bxc4 Qxc4 35. Ka1 {I developed poorly and played quite trappy tactics chess. Perhaps feeling the burden of the white pieces and annoyed at dropping a tempo with my 6th move. Perhaps I should have shown more respect to a stronger opponent and his ability to spot my tactical shots - developed consistently rather than pushing so hard in an equal position, especially when I got into minor time trouble and had to speed up around move 19.} 0-1
I am white, My opponent had a 1697 grade. Mine is 1519.
Analysing games.
11 Sep '13 16:02
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