ToddvsDino06232007.pgn
So, here's a little analysis of Todd vs Dino 6-23-07:
1.d4 e6 2.e4 Bb4+ 3.c3 Ba5 4.Nf3 d6 5.Bb5+ c6 6.Ba4 Nf6 7.Nbd2 O-O 8.e5 dxe5 9.dxe5 Ng4 10.O-O Bb6 11.Nd4 Re8?? (He didn't see the discovered attack on his knight, perhaps 11...Qh4 with the idea of 12...Qxh2# would have been better? Although it looks like that can be defended against with 12.h3)12.Qxg4 Nd7 13.Bb3? Nxe5 (left my e5 pawn hanging, better perhaps was 13.Re1 or N2f3)14.Qe4 f6 15.Nc4 h5 (Better was 15.Bc2 with the idea of 16.Qxh7+)16.Nxe5 fxe5 17.Qxe5 c5 18.Bg5 Qc7 19.Nf3 a6 (Better was 19.Qxc7 since I'm up material)20.Rad1 Rf8 21.Rd3?? Re8 (Please, fork me, I'm begging for it! Dumb!)22.Rfd1 c4 23.Bxc4 Qxc4 24.Rd6?? Bc7 (Here, let me line up my rook and queen for a pin! Better was 24.b3 maybe.)25.R1d4?? Qxa2 (Hanging my a2 pawn, but what's worse is offering him my rook and queen for his bishop and queen with 25...Bxd6 26.Rxc4 Bxe5 27.Nxe5 or a bishop for a rook with 26.Qxd6)26.h3? b5 (I'm worried about a non-existant back-rank mate threat easily parried by 27.Ne1, but I still don't see how to save my rook?)27.Rd7?? Bxe5 (I'm apparently a little retarded LOL)28.Nxe5 Bb7 29.Rxb7 Qxb2 30.Rf4 Rad8 (It seems like 30.Ng6 would be better, with the possible idea of 31.Rh4 32.Rxh5 33.Rh8)31.Rbf7 Rd1+ 32.Kh2 Qxc3 33.Ng6 Rd3 34.Ne7+ Kh7 35.Rh4 Rxh3+ 36.gxh3 Rxe7 37.Bxe7 Qe5+ 38.f4 Qe2+ 39.Kg3 b4 40.Rxh5+ Kg6 41.Re5 Qb2 42.Rf8 b3 43.Re6+ Kh5 44.Rf5 g5 (44.Rh8#?)45.Rxg5 1-0
The true extent of the suckage of my chess skill is becoming rapidly apparent with my first ever post-mortem. I cannot believe I actually won this game. Amazing. I'd liken my win to the saying "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then!" A little later I'll run this game through Fritz 10 and see how my analysis compares to his. I'd love to hear your analysis or your comments about my analysis. Did I miss anything or were my "better lines" not really better? Thanks everyone.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Now that you've annotated it, which is always a great first step, I will go ahead and do the same. :)
5.Bb5+ - Do you see why this is a bad move? White follows up with the sensible 5...f6 and now you're forced to waste time moving your bishop again, and it's not doing anything too useful on the final square it ends up on.
11.Nd4? - This hangs the e-pawn to 11...Nxe5.
12.Qxg4! - You take the piece.
13.Bb3? - This hangs the e-pawn to 13...Nxe5.
15.Nc4 + 16.Nxe5 - Nice! You trade knights when materially ahead.
19.Nf3 + 20.Rad1 - You are ahead. You should have traded queens. With less material on-board your opponent has fewer chances to reverse the outcome of the game.
21.Rd3?! - A dangerous way to align your bishop and rook.
24.Rd6? - A dangerous way to align your rook and queen.
(24.Rd7!! Bxd7 25.Rxd7 and Black is finished. I saw this right away, probably because I was just reading 'destruction of the castled king' in Chess Tactics for Champions.
27.Rd7?? - Losing the exchange was bad, but after this you would be dead lost against club players.
29.Rxb7! - You take the piece.
36.gxh3! - You take the piece.
40.Rxh5+? - Hanging your rook to 40...Qxh5.
45.Rxg4# - Spotting the mate-in-1.
Don't get upset about hanging a few pieces... it happens, especially when you're learning. That's why you're going to play slower and focus on tactics, right? :)
Here's a tournament game I played at the World Open. Notice how we each hang a piece to simple tactics, and then I hang several pawns? ;)
likesforests, yeah I see what you mean about 5.Bb5+, it ends up putting my bishop nowhere helpful while continuing to let my opponent develop.
I can't believe I didn't even see 11...Nxe5! Not even in my analysis, amazing how blind we can be sometimes to tactics staring us in the face! Terrible move!
Wow I didn't see 40...Qxh5 either!
About your game, I left a comment about it. Here's a question, what was the point of your opponent's move 18...f5? Why not retreat his bishop, or take the f3 pawn? Unfortunately, I dont think my chess vision extends much more than a couple moves at the current time :-)
Thanks for your analysis and comments!
I set an trap for my opponent. If he had retreated his bishop or taken the pawn I had 19.Qxg7#!
Now that you see that, you should understand the mysterious rook move 16.Rg1. I realized there was no way to save my knight. But the one advantage of losing it was that the g-file would be opened, and his king was on the g-file! And so I won back my piece and was back in the game. :)
welcome aboard. very impressive first effort here.
anyone can be a one month or even one year wonder. the key is to keep sharing over time, not few and far between but so overinvested that it subverts 'real chess' (however you define that), and not so frequent and trivial as to devalue real communicate. the right size between large and small, frequent and rare.
got to run, dk
'communication'...
likesforests, NOW I see...amazing! Nice recovery!
transformation, thanks a lot man, I appreciate the compliment! I've been working hard to make this blog entertaining to read while at the same time maintaining my focus on improvement and ideas. :-) Truth be told, credit goes to BDK, whose blog inspired me to start my own to track my progress.
From one newbee to another,
BDK's blog is what inspired me as well to join the chess blogosphere.
Perhaps that is one of the greatest compliments a blog can get: rip offs, imitations, or at least people who do the same yet differently.
The fact that BDK also had to start from the near beginning chesswise brings hope and inspiration to us.
Nice annotation, keep up the good work!
Hidden Leaf.
I should add that also the community around the blog with comments, jokes, suggestions is what made the blog such an inspirations, it's not the work of a man alone.
Thanks Hidden Leaf, I appreciate the compliment! You're totally right about the blogosphere community being an integral part of making some blogs (like BDK's) totally awesome! I hope to contribute to this community for quite a while! :-)
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