Hi everybody, I'm still learning to play chess, so I thought joining a forum like this might help me out a bit.
I'm currently in college and my roommate has been playing chess for a long time. We play occasionally, but I only win about 15% of the time. I've been going over my most recent game against him and I'm wondering if anyone knows if there was any way I could have saved myself in this position:
His last move had been P-e5. I then made the mistake of Nxc6, after which he played Bxf2+, which was silly of me to do because that's what I had been trying to prevent by playing the knight there in the first place. Is there any better way I could have handled that? I was thinking of playing Bxe5 but couldn't see any good coming out of it.
Originally posted by fathomakBxe5 may be your best try, but things still don't look good for you, the initiative is all his, and he forks your rook and king. :/
Hi everybody, I'm still learning to play chess, so I thought joining a forum like this might help me out a bit.
I'm currently in college and my roommate has been playing chess for a long time. We play occasionally, but I only win about 15% of the time. I've been going over my most recent game against him and I'm wondering if anyone knows if there was a handled that? I was thinking of playing Bxe5 but couldn't see any good coming out of it.
Originally posted by YUG0slavIt looks like it was some kind of queen's pawn game without 2. c4 where black got in c7-c5. It looks like there were bishops on b4, b5, and g5. I assume that white took a knight on c6 which is how the b-pawn got to there, and why there isn't a white light squared bishop - white played h3 and either black took on f3, so g4 looks like a mistake, or more likely black's light squared bishop went to g6 via h5, where it was eventually taken by Nh4 and Nxg6 and recaptured with the queen. The black dark squared bishop looks like it got there via b4 and a5, due to a2-a3 and b2-b4, on b4 it supported the c pawn and so when black took (c5xd4) the pawn couldn't be taken. The knight on c3 was driven to d2, White tryed to remove the pawn with c2-c3, but white could push the pawn as d3 is protected because black has to stop the attack on f2. The problem is it doesn't work properly as the c-pawn still should have been taken with pawns on d4 and b4.
that's why I would like to see the whole game to figure it out
btw. the pawn fork on king and rook has to be prevented so Qxd3 looks neccessary.