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Everyone always shows their best games.I'm sick of all that good chess 🙂
One move blunders are welcome but even better is a series of poor decisions.

Here's 2 of mine.
kristjan-torten Game 8498317
Everything's fine 'till around move 15 where I show a failure to understand the position,defend poor and end with a powerful blunder.
Credit to kristjan who understood things far better.



FastEddieB-tortenGame 8431914
Falling into an opening trap.

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hey, evry nice idea for a thread. i will post some bad game, once i find time. very instructive when annotations are involved...

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This game (Game 523392) is old and I don't remember the actual reasoning behind my moves. Looks funny though.

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I was playing at work, and had my screen shrunk down so I couldn't get caught; thus, I couldn't see the whole board at once. This mistake caused my ranking to go down severly. Well, serves me right for playing games at work.


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This is me as black getting destroyed thanks to avoiding development.

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Game 2809831



Yeah, that was bad. To sum up my position at the end: King: exposed; rooks: going nowhere; minor pieces: unco-ordinated (the w-squared bishop should get particular mention here); pawns: useless.

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Originally posted by VelvetEars
This is me as black getting destroyed thanks to avoiding development.

[pgn]
[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.timeforchess.com"]
[Date "2009.11.09"]
[EndDate "2009.12.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "National Master Dale"]
[Black "VelvetEars"]
[WhiteRating "1789"]
[BlackRating "1821"]
[WhiteElo "1789"]
[BlackElo "1821"]
[Result "1-0"]
[GameId but for the sake of completeness...} 20. Pc7 Ke7 21. Pc8=N 1-0 [/pgn]
Never thought I'd actually see that one rare time where it's better to promote to a knight, in a real game.

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Originally posted by untergang
Game 2809831

Yeah, that was bad. To sum up my position at the end: King: exposed; rooks: going nowhere; minor pieces: unco-ordinated (the w-squared bishop should get particular mention here); pawns: useless.
I'd be more worried about being nearly a whole queen down...

Richard

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Originally posted by vivify
Never thought I'd actually see that one rare time where it's better to promote to a knight, in a real game.
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/ChessTutor/curio.zip
contains seven knight promotions, each played by, presumably, professional players. I haven't checked whether each was necessary, but I presume so.

http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/ChessTutor/minor.zip
contains forty-something promotions to bishop or rook. Not nearly all of them are necessary. Trivial rook promotions are much easier to find than knight ones, for obvious reasons; I've even made one myself on this site.

Richard

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Blown away in 16 moves 🙂 I feel Nd4 was a bad move.


Game 8490471

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Got mated in 13 moves, a new record for me in correspondence chess!

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That 3...Qe7 in the Latvian is now in the theorectical dustbin.
I knew that when I got scudded in 15 or 16 moves with it OTB last time I tried it.
I just had to try it.

3...Nc6?! (possibly even riskier than 3....Qe7 )3..Qf6 is the move.

Two pints you owe me. 🙂

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Originally posted by vishyanand
Blown away in 16 moves 🙂 I feel Nd4 was a bad move.


Game 8490471[pgn][Event "Open invite"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2011.06.13"]
[EndDate "2011.06.25"]
[Round "?"]
[White "vishyanand"]
[Black "emperor31"]
[WhiteRating "1638"]
[BlackRating "1731"]
[WhiteElo "1638"]
[BlackElo "1731"]
[Result "0-1"]
[GameId "8490471" ...[text shortened]... f2g3 {!! the point of Bf2} 15. Nc3xd5 Qd8h4 {!! The end} 0-1

[/pgn]
16.h3 seems hopeful 🙂

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When i was still trying to figure out how the horsey moved...

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
That 3...Qe7 in the Latvian is now in the theorectical dustbin.
I knew that when I got scudded in 15 or 16 moves with it OTB last time I tried it.
I just had to try it.

3...Nc6?! (possibly even riskier than 3....Qe7 )3..Qf6 is the move.

Two pints you owe me. 🙂
Can I send the pints in the post?

I kind of realised 3...Qe7 wasn't working when after 7.Qh3 I couldn't see anywhere to go. Ah well, guess it's back to 3...Qf6 for me now.