Any chance of some analysis?

Hi

I would be grateful for any comments on these games
Game 872899
Game 872878
Both againsts the same player.

The win was my first against a 1600+ player and would really like to know if I played well or if he made mistakes...

For the loss, I was wondering what mistakes I made to let him in.

I've never had any games analysed before so this would be interesting!

Kevin

in the game where you are black you play a very weak opening and make many mistakes. I do like your aggression as white and that is why you won the second game. Best of luck.

Originally posted by lilnicky123
in the game where you are black you play a very weak opening and make many mistakes. I do like your aggression as white and that is why you won the second game. Best of luck.

Caro Kann isn't a weak opening at all. 3...f6 was terribly weak however, as it exposes your king. Better would have been 3...Bf5 when you could have developed normally and had a solid position. Another alternative is to just play 3...e6 when your light squared bishop would be locked in, but you would have the option of planning c5 or e5 as a pawn break giving the bishop some scope, and again, your position would have been solid.

In the other game, you played well as far as I can tell. Black missed 24...Qxd5+ when the queens would have been traded and he could have made a fight of it. (after 25 QxQ cxQ 26 Rc1 pinning the bishop to the mate square on c8 black frees himself with Na6 defending the bishop and the back rank, beyond that is beyond my ability to see)

BLR

Originally posted by BLReid
Caro Kann isn't a weak opening at all. 3...f6 was terribly weak however, as it exposes your king. Better would have been 3...Bf5 when you could have developed normally and had a solid position. Another alternative is to just play 3...e6 when your light squared bishop would be locked in, but you would have the option of planning c5 or e5 as a pawn break givin ...[text shortened]... with Na6 defending the bishop and the back rank, beyond that is beyond my ability to see)

BLR