Please Critique My Game/Win

KingOnPoint

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13 Jun 14 16:32

KingOnPoint

Joined: 31 Jan 06
Moves: 2598

13 Jun 14 16:32

Hello,
Will useful members of the RHP community please on my game in the Next Post following this OP?

I would like to know:

1) How could I have played better as white?
2) Are my annotations accurate for the both the White side and
... the Black side?
3) Please offer any useful annotations and/or other useful responses
... you might have about the game so that I and others can learn
... from this game example.

Thanks,
KOP

KingOnPoint

Joined: 31 Jan 06
Moves: 2598

13 Jun 14 16:32

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Originally posted by KingOnPoint

KingOnPoint(1492) Vs. Luigi Lammachi(1431)

Game ID - 10585007

PGN

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 {Starting the Petrov Defense (C42)} 3. d4 {Moving into the Modern (Steinitz) Attack (C43) and detering Bb4. Black can transpose to the Philidor Defense with which my opponent is used to playing.} 3... exd4 {Black properly breaks symmetry.} 4. e5 Ng4 {Ne4 keeps the Knight working at full capacity and also guards g5.} 5. h3 Nxf2 {What is Black thinking? Is this a blunder??. . .How can Black have a natural win now?  Nh6 is better.} 6. Kxf2 Nc6 7. Bf4 Bc5 8. Bd3 {Blocking a pawn while developing, preparing for defense, and making more room for my King, Queen and Rook. How can this be a bad move since it accomplishes all that at once?} 8...Nb4 {Perhaps, trying to remove a block to a discovered check.} 9. Nbd2 Nxd3 {Trades, however, can benefit White because of a surplus of power pieces.} 10. cxd3 d6 11. exd6 cxd6 12. Re1 Be6 {What do you do when you don't know a good move to play next?} 13. b4 Bb6 {Watching for 13... Bxb4 14. Qa4+ (Ke7, Kf8, or Qd7) 15. Qxb4} 14. Ne4 Bc7 15. Kg1 {Accounting for Black playing Qh4+ after I play Nxd4.  No need to rush.} 15... Qd7 16. Nxd4 O-O 17. Be3 {Wishing I could play Qh5.} 17... f5 {I would not say that I accounted for Black playing f5 with my King and Bishop on the F file; fortunately, they are not.} 18. Nxe6 {I need to take the e6 Bishop before it gets to d5 aiming at my King side and blocking my possible Queen's access to Black's King from Qb3.} 18... Qxe6 19. Ng5 Qd5 {Why didn't Black try Qf6 looking to send an attack down the King side, if possible.} 20. Qb3 {Trying Qf3 left me with less pawns, and like Venda alludes in his post, enemy Queens can be a nuisance. So, Qb3 puts me one step closer to a win because Piece Trades can help White in this position. That doesn't mean I like having doubled pawns on the B file though.} 20... Qxb3 21. axb3 Rfe8 22. Bd4 Bb6 {Around move 23 is where I need to keep one of Black's Rooks off of the C file so that Black will not remove my Queen side pawns.} 23. Nf3 Rxe1 24. Rxe1 Kf7 {Black could have claimed the C file with his last Rook on this move.} 25. Rc1 {Fortunately, I get to shut down Black's use of the C file.} 25... Re8 26. Kf2 h6 27. Bxb6 axb6 28. Rc7+ Re7 {Does Black think he will draw or win by letting me trade for his last major power piece? Trading in this position can help White.} 29. Rxe7 {Black Resigns. . .Sources used for this game may include: http://www.365chess.com and http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/index.htm and http://www.chesslab.com} 1-0

sundown316

The Mighty Messenger

The Wood of N'Kai

Joined: 13 Dec 03
Moves: 156184

13 Jun 14 20:56

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Don't know what he was looking at with 5...Nxf2? Was he afraid of 5...Nh6 6.Bxh6? After that it was a mop-up as he helped by trading off everything, something you don't do a piece down.

Paul Leggett

Chess Librarian

The Stacks

Joined: 21 Aug 09
Moves: 115402

14 Jun 14 02:35

Originally posted by KingOnPoint
Originally posted by KingOnPoint

[b]KingOnPoint(1492) Vs. Luigi Lammachi(1431)
Game ID - 10585007
[pgn]1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 {Starting the Petrov Defense (C42)} 3. d4 {Moving into the Modern (Steinitz) Attack (C43) and detering Bb4. Black can transpose to the Philidor Defense with which my opponent is us ...[text shortened]... 5chess.com and http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/index.htm and http://www.chesslab.com} 1-0[/pgn][/b]

If you really want to learn, ask others to critique your losses. There is more to be gained there, usually.

Data Fly

Joined: 18 Feb 10
Moves: 0

14 Jun 14 10:50

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I suppose it's good in a way to see a failed sacrifice. Usually only games with successful sacrifices get published so if you're not careful you can get the impression that sacrifices work 90% of the time.

To be honest, Black played really, really badly in this game from start to finish and there doesn't seem to be any point in analysing it. White did a pretty good job at winning once he was a piece up, but this largely consisted of swapping off pieces when Black offered to ( "Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake" ).

When I used to play for Hackney Chess Club in the late 1980s, we used to go over games in the pub after league matches and a popular catch-phrase when someone thought he had an easily won game was "I could beat Kasparov from this position". Maybe you could try this out with this game - plug in the position after Nxf2 and get a strongish computer program to play the Black side. I bet you a pile of dog poo that you won't be able to beat it, even though you're a piece up.

bill718

Enigma

Seattle

Joined: 03 Sep 06
Moves: 3298

14 Jun 14 15:07

Originally posted by KingOnPoint
Hello,
Will useful members of the RHP community please on my game in the Next Post following this OP?

I would like to know:

1) How could I have played better as white?
2) Are my annotations accurate for the both the White side and
... the Black side?
3) Please offer any useful annotations and/or other useful responses
... you might have about the game so that I and others can learn
... from this game example.

Thanks,
KOP

King- you're doing a really smart thing! This is the best free education you'll get. It can be painful to re live a game if you lost, or missed a prime opportunity, but feedback like this will save you from making the same mistakes over and over. I need to start doing this myself.🙂

1shooter

Joined: 17 Dec 13
Moves: 962

17 Jun 14 01:28

Why take the pawn on move 11 keep the tension maybe move a rook or something useful. It seems like your doing what he wants there.

1shooter

Joined: 17 Dec 13
Moves: 962

17 Jun 14 01:32

move 13 was kind of garbage. he could take the pawn and force a new pin on your knight.

Instead I would of attacked the pined knight on e6 with your knight to g5

Data Fly

Joined: 18 Feb 10
Moves: 0

17 Jun 14 07:04

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Originally posted by 1shooter
move 13 was kind of garbage. he could take the pawn and force a new pin on your knight.

13. ... Bxb4 would have been a serious blunder by Black. See if you can work out why.

Paul Leggett

Chess Librarian

The Stacks

Joined: 21 Aug 09
Moves: 115402

18 Jun 14 21:45

Originally posted by 1shooter
move 13 was kind of garbage. he could take the pawn and force a new pin on your knight.

Instead I would of attacked the pined knight on e6 with your knight to g5

🙄

KingOnPoint

Joined: 31 Jan 06
Moves: 2598

24 Jun 14 18:53

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Originally posted by 1shooter
Why take the pawn on move 11 keep the tension maybe move a rook or something useful. It seems like your doing what he wants there.

1Shooter,
I wanted to keep black from playing d6-d5 on his move 11. I can look at the Re1 instead.

KingOnPoint

Joined: 31 Jan 06
Moves: 2598

24 Jun 14 19:03

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Originally posted by 1shooter
move 13 was kind of garbage. he could take the pawn and force a new pin on your knight.

Instead I would of attacked the pined knight on e6 with your knight to g5

1Shooter,
If you will look closer to my annotation, you can see that if Black takes the b4 pawn, I will put a Queen on Black's King and then gain a Black bishop afterward.

Annotation for move 13
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Watching for 13... Bxb4 14. Qa4+ (Ke7, Kf8, or Qd7) 15. Qxb4
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Also, if I had tried to take Black's Bishop at e6 with my Knight at g5, then Black would have another center pawn to push down the center. I do not want that. Notice, I did not take the Bishop at e6 until move 18 when the Bishop had to be recaptured with Black's Queen.