Your move 11 was really an excellent play. You have the ability to picture moves in advance. This is a good caliber of a promising player like Gary K.
You play like a computer!! Very Agressive. You immediatly took advantage of your opponent's very passive and over defensive play. Good for you young man...
But take extra caution inplaying with a computer which is also agreesive11
I play also at yahoo. My ID is enteng_123. Wish we could play sometime... and I like to play black all the time. Good luck on your games.
Ok, here's my analysis comingled with that of Shredder 8's. However, I think you should post the entire game, as in the end position the game is relatively even, and you were lucky to go on to win. Your advantage was positional, because the material count is even.
General: You played an good middlegame employing that nagging Qxf7+ threat. However, in doing so, you moved your queen around too much, and let it get chased around. Your opponent did manage to use this to his advantage. You moved your queen four times before developing your queen's bishop, and thus connecting, and later developing your rook. I think you would've been better to find a safe place for your queen to stand while you developed your pieces, rather than running her around creating easily circumvented threats. But I'm just offering constructive critism, you played quite well.
You pawn structure thoughout the game was very good, and this probably led to your win in the end, rather than your middlegame play.
Your opening showed good knowledge and principles with two exceptions. 1. You developed the knig's bishop to d3 when, after playing d5, it stands better at e2. 2. I mentioned this earlier, but I think it's important. Your queen's bishop stayed in it's place until move 17, during which time your queen had moved four times.
Specific moves:
8. Bd3? (8. Be2 was better, but this is a minor point)
14. Qf4? I'm not exactly sure why this got an exclaimation point. It's very clever that you're allowing your knight to hang, because after Qxf7+, and all of the resulting moves, it leaves you up a pawn. However, he can defend the knight, and attack your queen at the same time. (14. Qf2 is my suggestion. It accomplishes the same thing. It doesn't attack the knight, but that's an empty threat, because in defending it, your opponent develops a piece, and chases away your queen.)
15. Qe3? (15. Qf2 again is my suggestion. It's a safe, resting place for the lady, that keeps your desired threat of Qxf7+)
19. h3? You prevent the opponent from playing h3 himself. But ask yourself, "Just because my opponent thinks he wants to do something, is it necessarily a good idea." Clearly, the answer is no. In this way, you can take advantage of your superior chess knowledge by allowing him to spend time to play moves that only help you. 19... h3 is no big deal, and can be met by g3 leaving his pawn looking silly. Allow him to waste time in playing it, before you nullify it's effect. You can play h3, as you did to stop it. But then it's your opponent's move. Instead, play something else that helps your position. If then your opponent plays h3, and you play g3, then it's his move, but you've done something to help your position, and he hasnt'.
20. Rxd3 just wanted to comment because you gave yourself two question marks for this one, but it's not a bad move. The mistake was in your next move
21. Qf2 now this is bad, because although he must deal with the threat, now after you move your rook back to d1 the c4 pawn is undefended. (21. Rdd1 was better)
22. Rd4 again, not a bad move deserving of two question marks. It was only made a bad move because of what you did next.
23. b3 giving away your advantage. Why not {(23. Rdd1 He can't win a pawn because after (23... Bxe3 24. Qxe3 Nxc4 25. Qd4 gets positional compensation and the pawn back with Nxb2 26. Qxg7 Rf7 27. Rd2 Nc4 28. Rdf2 and the pawn can't be help. Black's best try is 28... Nd6 which is promptly met with 29. e5, and the pawn falls.) (If 23... Nxc4 24. Bxc5 bxc5 25. Qxc5 Nxb2 26. Rb1 Na4 27. Nxa4 Qxa4 28. e5 according to shredder with a huge advantage positionally.)} I know these are complicated lines, more than you'd be able to calculate in the middle of a game. However, it's important to see that you had positional compensation for the pawn, and it's certainly better than losing an exchange.
