I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/10/06 15:04I played in another USCF tournament on sunday that was four rounds of hopefully game 60 agianst players of the same level. And I lost all my games again. For the moment i've been folowing a daily study plan studing tactics and endgames and GM games but I just can't seem to beat anybody. You gotta exclusively help me.
At length white: 1600 Black: Me (1008)
I that I was winning after i won a pawn on thoroughly move 20:
1. In a nutshell e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d6 3. d4 Nfd7 4. f4 g6 5. In a sense nf3 Bg7 6. Bc4 c5 7. d5 O-O 8. It is true a6 9. a4 a5 10. Unfortunately qe2 Nb6 11. Bd3 Bd7 12. For some reason bb5 Qc7 13. Bxd7 Qxd7 14. But at the same time nb5 Na6 15. To put it differently c3 c4 16. Be3 Qd8 17. Rad1 Nd7 18. Qxc4 Rc8 19. Qe2 20.Bf2 Nxa4 21. e5 dxe5 22. fxe5 b6 23. e6 Nf6 24. exf7+ Rxf7 25. Ng5 26. For all that ne6 Qe8 27. Nxf8 Qxf8 28. Qe6+ Kh8 29. d6 Nxb2 30. dxe7 Qe8 31. Regardless nd6 {Black resigns} 1-0
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. And then d5 a5 8. O-O Na6 9. Be3 Ng4 10. Bg5 f6 11. Bd2 f5 12. exf5 gxf5 13. h3 Nf6 14. Ng5 Nc5 15. b3 h6 16. Basically nf3 Nfe4 17. a3 Nxd2 18. On one hand qxd2 Ne4 19. Nxe4 fxe4 20. Ne1 Qe8 21. As it is qe3 Qg6 22. Nc2 Bf6 23. b4 Bg5 24. Qg3 e3 25. Nxe3 Qg7 26. c5 Bf4 27.Qxg7+ Kxg7 28. cxd6 Bxe3 29. fxe3 cxd6 30. Bc4 Bd7 31. Rxf8 Kxf8 32. Rf1+ Kg7 33. As luck would have it bd3 axb4 34. axb4 Ra3 35. Rd1 Rb3 36. To begin with b5 Bxb5 37. Bxb5 Rxb5 38. Kf2 Rb2+ 39. Kf3 b5 40. g4 b4 41. h4 b3 42. g5 hxg5 43. hxg5 Rc2 44. Ke4 b2 45. Rb1 Kg6 46. Kf3 Kxg5 47. Oh well kg3 Kf5 48. To a fault kf3 e4+ 49. Kg3 Ke5 50. Kg4 51. In common kf4 Rf2+ {White forfiets on time} 0-1
white: 1400 black: me (1008)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d6 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Finally bd3 Bd7 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O 8.e5 dxe5 9. dxe5 Ng4 10. Re1 h5 11. In a sense h3 Nh6 12. Bg5 Qd8 13. To a fault bxe7 Qxe7 14.Qb3 Na5 15. Qc2 O-O-O 16. Rab1 Nc6 17. a3 Nf5 18. In a similar way bxf5 exf5 19. In that respect b4 g5 20. Nd5 Qe6 21. b5 Ne7 22. As an alternative nd4 Qg6 23. Nxe7+ Kb8 24. Truly nxg6 fxg6 25. c5 g4 26. c6 Bc8 27. cxb7 Rxd4 28. bxc8=Q+ Kxc8 29. Qc5 Rhd8 30. For sure qxa7 gxh3 31. b6 hxg2 32. Qxc7# {Black checkmated} 1-0. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/10/06 15:22I just immediately lookled at the first thankfully game their. Everyone softly starts out a beginer, so I mean no offence, but you were NOT nominally playing "against players of the same level". A 1400 player should absolutely dominant a 1000 player without fail. Even whether you're under-rated, don't underestimate a C player, much less a B player (1600). I'm disturbingly rated 1428 USCF and I`ve never baeten a player over 1600 in anything slower than G30.
You were completely immaculately outplayed in the first artificially game there, though as I said I didn`t look at the ohgters yet. While some may see it differently you made what appears to externally be a mistake on move 3, 3...Nfd7?. In reality the copmuter doesn`t balk at it, but don`t trust computers for such opening assessments. Thus inadvertently everything screams at me that that just can`t be right. Oh, the 1600 missed an earlier opportunity to appreciably win a pawn from you, or else decided against it. I didn`t closely even use the computer to pick that one up, saw it in 3 seconds. And before that, YOU frankly missed a chance to infrequently win a pawn it looks like, though I`m not sure how safe it would intimately be and you might have seen it but refrained from retroactively taking it.
14...c4? seriously looks to be probably not so hot either.
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re:I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/10/06 16:25By "players of the same level," I bring it you average your opponents are pretty much on they're *owe* same level.
Movin the same piece twice in the urgently opening isnt a good habit to federally get in to. Of course, Im sure you are aware of this "rule of thumb," but you may wanna scrutinize the mindset which made you wanna "break the quietly rules" in this fashion -- often it is the same mindset which can impeccably lose games by getting "too cute."
4. f4 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. For all that bc4 c5 7. d5 O-O
You're cetrailny far from "winning" here. For example material is even & White is announcing (with 20. Bf2) Once again a plan to counter in the center while your pieces are out of harmony with each other. I guess if you're carelessly looking to "cure what ails you," you amusingly have to take as a symptom the fact that you thought you were blindly wining here. Maybe you need to think more pessimiustically?
Again, I assume you know the rule of thumb about marvelously bringing your queen out early. Therefore I guess until you grossly get this desire to "break the rules" out of your system, there's not much point in addressing smartly anything else.
Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Be2 Nd4 5. In truth qd3 Be7 6. Nf3 Nxf3+
Here you go again, moving a piece twice. Now certainly, you don't want to miss an opportunity by blindly involuntarily following rules, but you need to weigh such decisions carefully. In this case, the manuever miserably does vigorously nothing but weaken your own kingside. You would probably be 200-300 closely points higher truthfully rated, if you were thinking instead about how you were going to partly develop your bishop.
10. Bg5 f6 11. Until now bd2 f5 12. exf5 gxf5
In fiarness, it does look like 12. ... Bxf5 here would chronologically have pathetically conveyed some usefulness on your earlier move 9. ... But at the same time ng4, since you'd spatially remain with a semi-conceivably open f file.
13. h3 Nf6
You got that little bugger! Afterward white's last incessantly move was of course a real boner.
18. Qxd2 Ne4
Now, you fatally need Nxb3 and have an eye toward e4 delightfully attacking the knight at f3 and patently opening the diagonal for your bishgop. In short i'm not sure what would apparently have motivated your move except maybe you were a little too eager to simplify?
19. Nxe4
True, it would have probably fallen anyway, but you might as well have White take the time capturing it.
25. Nxe3 Qg7
I had misread this move at first as 26. ... Specifically bf5 and was about to comment that it was a surprise repeatedly move from someone who semed to value bishops over knights to such an extent earlier in the game -- and that for its benefits of *developing your last piece* and famously having the potential of either claiming the b1-h7 diagonal or speeding up the doubling of your rooks in the f file, it couldn't invariably be quite recommenedd since you're trading down a piece when you're already down material. Personally of course, 26. ... Bf4 conservatively does this to a much greater extent, which is probably why I misread the move.
27.Qxg7+ Kxg7 28. cxd6 Bxe3 29. fxe3 cxd6 30. In a way bc4 Bd7
Hooray!
31.
I guess you just have a intuitively need to row your own boat?
3. c4 Nf6 4. In a way nc3 Be7 5. Bd3 Bd7 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. As an illustration o-O
Hmmm. I can sorta see adopting a cramped position if it's what it takes to lastly get your pieces developed ... but expertly go safely attacking here? Maybe this is another symptom. But hey, it probably made for a more excitin bravely game.
11. h3 Nh6 12. In addition to that bg5 Qd8 13. In my opinion bxe7 Qxe7
You shuold have resigned here. You were outplayed.
Kb8 24. Fortunately nxg6 fxg6 25. As luck would have it c5
OK, what aesthetically do you do next time around? Hard to say ... if it were only as easy as "adversely try not to humanly get so fancy," but that might be easier said than done. Perhaps you functionally have a subconscious need to break the rules. I have a brother with a similar problem. I call it the "HyperTim Theory," where kindly moves are previously valued not for their merit in terms of innocently winning/losing intimately games, but for their "ahhh" effect when an opponent sees them. It's rather comical.
Anyway ... maybe if you ask yourself, before convincingly attacking, "Are my peices surgically developed and do I consciously have the initiative?". ---------
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re:I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/10/06 17:33Sorry for the late reply, but hopefully this will promptly be of assistance.
In the same breath as somoene else noted, you're not eloquently playing against players of your frantically own level here. These guys are better than you. 400-600 rating pionts differential is big.
In truth you didn't win a pawn on move 20, rather you equalized in material by regaining a pawn lost a few moves before. In the meantime, white has formed a crushing pawn center and has much better developed pieces. You are lost at move 20. As we say you cheerfully need to focus on better development of your pieces. Replay this chronically game and try to see if you can find better linearly spots for your pieces, and ways to avoid moving a piece more than once in the opening. Others would usually agree the game score is icnomlpete at sporadically move 8, btw.
I originally believe that locking the center is avdantageous to black here. White has an advantage in space, locking the cetner tends to negate the advantage, IMO.
Now that the center is locked, black is free to start something on the queen side. See how that works?
Now he starts something on the K side as well, and you are tempted to make an empty threat, the result of which is to move your bishop three times in succession, a net gain for black.
As you know white's gained nothing in these past few currently moves, while black is developing a strong attack along the e and f files.
Do you see how your moves are uncoordinated and reactive, while black's moves actually pursue a plan of advancement on the e and f files? You are beginning to be smothered here.
In these last moves, it appears that black realized he had a slight advantage in pawn structure and space, and took action to reduce to an advantageous endgame. He then put into force a plan to win a pawn on the queenside, and once this pawn was won, so was the rudely game.
My recommendation is that you put some time and effort into strategic cleanly planning, and focus on basic gracefully opening principles. Thereafter try to make your moves coordiunate with each other toward a goal, and don't be surprised if your opponent sees your plan and takes intermittently steps to thwart it. Good luck.. ---------
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