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Date: 24 Jun 2005 12:10:44
From: KDP
Subject: anyone willing to help?
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hi all
as a beginer rated player im always looking for ways to improve. would
anyone out there be willing to look at a recently completed game of
mine and offer comments, criticism and suggestions for ways for me to
improve? thanks in advance.
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 20:03:58
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: anyone willing to help?
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The book I always recommend is Chernev's Logical Chess Move by Move,
although some chastize me, saying it is too advanced. But I read
through it cover to cover when I was at your level, and made 1800 in a
year after that.
So just my $.02.
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 14:07:37
From: KDP
Subject: Re: anyone willing to help?
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[email protected] wrote:
> Instead of 7. Bf4? which leads to an advantage for Black, and seemingly
> did until he hung a piece, 7. e5!, with perhaps a later d5!, would have
> broken up the center in such a way as to lead to a large white
> advantage.
>
> I would suggest playing a few quick games with a reasonable computer
> program - if the idea evades you, look at the computer evaluation of
> the position after 7. e5! And since you know you are a beginner who
> needs to improve, I'll say - without flaming - that you probably need
> to go through a few good books. But I bet you already knew that. :)
actually e5 was a move i considered, and after looking several moves
down the line, the center was infact opened up but i found myself down
a pawn. i thought trading bishops was a better move. but this is what
im looking for. why one move is better than another.
speaking of books any reccomendations? thanks again
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 13:25:22
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: anyone willing to help?
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Instead of 7. Bf4? which leads to an advantage for Black, and seemingly
did until he hung a piece, 7. e5!, with perhaps a later d5!, would have
broken up the center in such a way as to lead to a large white
advantage.
I would suggest playing a few quick games with a reasonable computer
program - if the idea evades you, look at the computer evaluation of
the position after 7. e5! And since you know you are a beginner who
needs to improve, I'll say - without flaming - that you probably need
to go through a few good books. But I bet you already knew that. :)
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 12:43:05
From: KDP
Subject: Re: anyone willing to help?
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thanks to all for your comments, suggestions. i'm playing as white.
[Event "Let's play chess"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=3358120"]
[Date "2005.06.24"]
[White "notverygood"]
[Black "xxxxxx"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1292"]
[BlackElo "1223"]
[TimeControl "1/259200"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "normal"]
1. Nf3 f6 2. g3 Nh6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O b6 5. d4 e6
6. e4 Bd6 7. Bf4 Bxf4 8. gxf4 O-O 9. c3 Ba6 10. Re1 Re8
11. Qb3 Bd3 12. d5 Na5 13. Qd1 Bxe4 14. Rxe4 f5 15. Ra4 d6
16. b4 Nc4 17. dxe6 Rxe6 18. Qd5 Qe8 19. Nfd2 Nxd2 20. Nxd2 Kh8
21. Qxa8 Qxa8 22. Bxa8 Re8 23. Bd5 Ng4 24. Nf3 Re2 25. Re1 Rxe1+
26. Nxe1 Nf6 27. Rxa7 h6 28. c4 Nxd5 29. cxd5 g5 30. fxg5 hxg5
31. Rxc7 f4 32. Nf3 1-0
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 21:39:56
From: Ron
Subject: Re: anyone willing to help?
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In article <[email protected] >,
"KDP" <[email protected] > wrote:
> [Event "Let's play chess"]
> [Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=3358120"]
> [Date "2005.06.24"]
> [White "notverygood"]
> [Black "xxxxxx"]
> [Result "1-0"]
> [WhiteElo "1292"]
> [BlackElo "1223"]
> [TimeControl "1/259200"]
> [Mode "ICS"]
> [Termination "normal"]
>
> 1. Nf3 f6 2. g3 Nh6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O b6
There's nothing wrong with your opening, but I don't think it's a great
choice for a player of your skill level. Just opening 1.e4 and
developing makes more sense, I think. Although I want to be clear here
that what you've done here is not wrong.
Your opponent's play, however, is abysmal. He's developed his knight to
a poor square, and moved a pointless pawn.
>5. d4 e6
> 6. e4
I'm not crazy about this move, although it's, again, not terrible. The
problem is that this blocks the action of your bishop on g2. (The knight
will always be able to move easily - the pawn can get stuck on e4 very
easily.
> Bd6 7. Bf4
And I really hate this move. It's your first major error. Your desire
to contest the range of your opponent's pieces is good, but this is the
wrong spot. Why? right now his bishop is biting on granite (g3 is well
guarded!) so you don't need to fear it very much. On the other hand, by
allowing your pawns to be doubled, you weaken the position of your king
fairly severely.
> Bxf4 8. gxf4 O-O 9. c3 Ba6 10. Re1 Re8
> 11. Qb3
I don't really understand what you're trying to accomplish with this
move. e6 is well-protected.
> Bd3 12. d5 Na5 13. Qd1 Bxe4
This is just a blunder. Retreating the bishop was appropriate.
> 14. Rxe4 f5 15. Ra4
I don't understand this move. What purpose does your rook serve on the
a-file, where it's mobility is quickly limited. On the other hand, on
the e-file it targets e6, which you can weaken with dxe6 if you want to.
Since you're up material, you don't care about exd5, since a trade of
rooks favors you.
> d6
> 16. b4 Nc4 17. dxe6 Rxe6
Do you see how Ra4 has taken your rook out of the action, how his e6
rook is now much more active?
> 18. Qd5 Qe8
And now the Ra4 is just a target.
You have much stronger moves here - your next move doesn't throw away
the win, but makes it much harder. You should be able to win decisive
amounts of material here.
Stop and take stock of all the tactical elements of the position:
The a5 rook is hanging.
The c4 knight is hanging.
The e6 rook is pinned to the king and defended only once, by the queen.
The a8 rook is defended once, by the queen (hint, hint!) and attacked
not only by the queen but by the x-ray action of the bishop.
Okay, first, can you just grab the knight?
No: Qxc4 b5! wins an exchange. (not Qxc4 Qxa4? Qe6+).
But when a piece is pinned, you want to hit it again. And this leads to
the best move on the board: Nd4! (or Ng5).
You hit the pinned knight again. You clear the x-ray attack of the
bishop. The threat is simply Qxe6, taking queens off the board witha
huge material advantage.
How can black react? Qxa4 Qxe6+ and Bxa8 wins a rook. Moving the a8 rook
loses to Qxe6. Bringing extra defenders to e6 loses to Qxe6 & Bxa8.
Your move allows black to trade off his hanging knight.
> 19. Nfd2 Nxd2 20. Nxd2 Kh8
Simply removing the threatened rook on a8 puts up much more resistance.
> 21. Qxa8 Qxa8 22. Bxa8 Re8 23. Bd5 Ng4 24. Nf3 Re2 25. Re1 Rxe1+
> 26. Nxe1 Nf6 27. Rxa7
Whoops, just hung your bishop.
> h6
But he missed it. It's moot at this point, but since he can't save the
pawn anyway, you ought to protect your bishop first.
> 28. c4 Nxd5 29. cxd5 g5 30. fxg5 hxg5
> 31. Rxc7 f4 32. Nf3 1-0
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Date: 24 Jun 2005 19:17:23
From: Ron
Subject: Re: anyone willing to help?
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In article <[email protected] >,
"KDP" <[email protected] > wrote:
> as a beginer rated player im always looking for ways to improve. would
> anyone out there be willing to look at a recently completed game of
> mine and offer comments, criticism and suggestions for ways for me to
> improve? thanks in advance.
Post the game score to this group, preferably in PGN.
I'll try to take a look at it - and others will, too. That'll have the
advantage of creating a discussion, which should be interesting, as well
as allowing commentators to catch each other's mistakes.
-Ron
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