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I remember a while back Skeeter made a thread like this complaining about people not resigning. So my list is a bit different, here I am gonna post some interesting games I played and want someone to analyze them.
All are welcome to comment about these games, and you can post some of your own games here as well. But I dont want this thread to just be here to show each other games, I want some players (high rated prefered) to comment, and help me improve my mistakes.
Game 677307
This was a tough game,I messed up the opening in the beginning, but was there anyway I could have won this?or maybe even sneak out a draw?
Thanks in advance,
-Shaul-
Do you have any chess software with an analysis feature? This may be useful to you, as it has been to me. I started using Fritz 8 a while ago to analyze my games after I have played them. Besides finding mistakes that I have made, it finds many unplayed strong moves. I still need help sometimes figuring out why certain moves are strong, as the software doesn't explain what the goal of a move sequence is.
P.S. - I'm not suggesting you don't post games for analysis by others, just offering another complementary option.
Originally posted by zucchiniFirst off I dont have Fritz.
Do you have any chess software with an analysis feature? This may be useful to you, as it has been to me. I started using Fritz 8 a while ago to analyze my games after I have played them. Besides finding mistakes that I have made, it finds many unplayed strong moves. I still need help sometimes figuring out why certain moves are strong, as the software ...[text shortened]... esting you don't post games for analysis by others, just offering another complementary option.
And secondly, as you stated I want to understand what mistakes I made and I want to understand the better moves i could have made.
Knowing the answer isn't enough, I need to know the way to get there...
FNM
I put your game thru analysis with Crafty (a free chess engine with analysis capability available @ www.tim-mann.org/chess.html) and came up with some suggestions:
move 7.d3: d4 would have worked to set up a stonewall, if you wanted.
move 14: b4 ended up weakening your queen-side unnecessarily
move 18: instead of b5, perhaps e4 to break open the centre to increase your piece activity. Also, your pieces weren't really in position to take advantage of your opening the b-file on move 20.
moves 19 & 23: Crafty thought the king moves were unnecessary, lobbying more for the e4 break.
move 26: Crafty thought h4 seriously weakened your king side, which was proven by Black's invasion there starting move 33.
move 37 & 38: these were the critical mistakes. Before this, Crafty rated your position as weak; but, still alive. Instead of 37.Kf4, Bg4 would have saved your king and the bishop, and 38.Rg5 would have allowed you to continue the struggle.
Hope this helps.
Bird's Openings needs more of a King side push. When you chose to let the battle happen on the opposite side of the board and left the king side pieces static. This game was over at 21 ...h5. One thought is to get the knight pin on the kings side and get rid of it early. That knight is a monster thorn in king side development, esp considering the poor choice of placement for the king side bishop.