For a long time now, I've been collecting and analyzing my games. All analysis is aided by a computer and I am most certainly a hopeless patzer. Some of these games are interesting, some are terrible, but all of them are mine and they live on this site so I can perhaps learn from them.
If you play through my games on the embedded boards, my commentary should be integrated in all recent games. Unless noted, all games are correspondence games.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
LindseyAnn vs. KlingofIran 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.04.03"]
[Round ""]
[White "lindseyann"]
[Black "klingofiran"]
[TimeControl "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "1068"]
[BlackELO "1310"]
{Termination "klingofiran won by resignation"}
1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nf3
{The Modern Opening. I left the book. 3. Nc3 would have been in the opening book.}
3...b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.e4 Nf6 6.Bd3 d6 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5
{I was sort of beating myself up over this game, since I haven't won a live game in quite a while. However, so far my play has been pretty solid.}
8...Nb8 9.Bg5 c6 10.Qd2 Qc7 11.Bf4 Nbd7 12.Bc2 O-O-O 13.Ba4
{Nd4 would have been a better way to put pressure on c6, but at least I had the right idea.}
13...c5
{A slight mistake on his part, better would have been Nc5. I could have responded with Rfe1, threatening to play e5, but that is not what I did.}
14.Ne2
{The first big mistake on my part, hung my pawn on e4.}
14...h6 15.Rfc1
{He gave me a chance to save the pawn and I did not take it. Better is Qc2}
15...Nxe4 16.Qc2 f5 17.Nd2 Ndf6 18.f3 Nxd2 19.Qxd2
{I should have taken back with my bishop here. Two points to make here: Capturing back with the bishop would have allowed me to then play Bc3, blocking the critical diagonal that eventually lead to my downfall. Also, I never noticed that I could put pressure onto his weak pawn with Nd4, which could have been played after the bishop moves.}
19...Kb8 20.b4
{Probably would have been better to focus on the king side where I could have actually gotten some counter play.}
20...Nxd5
{He played this move in order to distract me into taking and forgetting about my rook. That's exactly what happen, but he's trading two minor pieces for a rook which isn't considered technically right (however, it may be different when playing against someone like me).}
21.cxd5 Bxa1 22.Rxa1 g5 23.Bg3 f4 24.Bf2
{He's effectively put my bishop out of commission, which makes his rook advantage more apparent.}
24...Bxd5
{Wow, he hung his bishop and I missed it. I think I was already feeling defeated at this point, which is never helpful.}
25.Nc3
{This couldn't have been a worse response. I knew his bishops was hanging because that's why I moved my knight, but in moving my knight I cut off the queen from protecting the b4 pawn.}
25...Bc6 26.Re1 Bxa4 27.Nxa4 Qc6 28.Nb2 Qd7 29.Nd3 Qf5 30.Re2
{Note to self: when playing life games, look for hanging opponent pieces. I could have just taken Rxe7.}
30...Rde8 31.Qe1
{A blunder and I resigned in despair.}
31...Qxd3
0-1
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