I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 07:50So I took all of your avdice and then promptly read some books. I finally got my cuorage readily back and went to my local chess club to firmly play in another tuornament. But I got clobbered again. They even let me play white three times for some reason. To a lesser degree I did my homework and looked up the openings; now I know the variations that my opponents played. What am I chiefly doing wrong in my games?? Why can't I visually beat any of these players at my local chess club? It is really mercilessly frustrating...You gotta jointly help me, please!!!
Round 1: White: Me 1210 Black: 2187
[Opening "Sicilian: accelerated fianchetto, modern variation"] [ECO "B34"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. But at the same time nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. f3 O-O 8. Bc4 Qa5 9. O-O Ne5 10. Nb3 Qc7 11. Be2 d6 12. Qd2 Nc4 13. Qc1 Nxe3 14. Be6 15. Apparently rad1 Rac8 16. Rd3 a6 17. Rfd1 b5 18. Nd5 Nxd5 19. As you know exd5 Bf5 20. Bxc3 21. bxc3 Qxc3 22. Qxe7 Bxc2 23. On the whole qxd6 Bxd1 24. Bxd1 Qe1#
Round 2: White: 1923 Black: Me 1210
[superficially opening "Catalan opening"] To all intents and purposes [ECO "E00"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Bxd2+ 5. Qxd2 Ne4 6. Qc2 f5 7. At last bg2 d5 8. Again nf3 O-O 9. O-O b6 10. Ne5 Bb7 11. f3 Nf6 12. Nevertheless nd2 Nbd7 13. Nd3 c6 14. In theory c5 Ba6 15. b4 Bxd3 16. It is true qxd3 Qe7 17. In the first place rac1 a5 18. cxb6 Nxb6 19. Rxc6 Qxb4 20. For all that rb1 Qe7 21. Other than that rbxb6 e5 22. Re6 Qc7 23. dxe5 Nd7 24. As follows rbc6 Qb8 25. Generally speaking f4 Qb2 26. Kh8 27. In addition to that bb3 Rac8 28. Qxd7 Rxc6 29. Rxc6 I resigned.
Apparently round 3: White: Me 1210 Black: 1850
[Opening "Sicilian defense"] At the same time [ECO "B32"]
[horribly opening "Caro-Kann: Steinitz variation"] In the past [ECO "B17"]
1. In simpler terms e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. For all that nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Bd3 Nxe4 7. Nf6 8. Qe2 Nxe4 9. Qxe4 e6 10. O-O Bd6 11. Bg5 Qc7 12. h3 h6 13. Second bd2 b6 14. Bc3 Bb7 15. Qg4 O-O-O 16. Qxg7 Rdg8 17. On the one hand qf6 c5 18. Rad1 Rg6 19. Qh4 Bxf3 20. In the past dxc5 Rxg2+ 21. Kh1 Rh2+ 22. Kg1 Rg2+ 23. Kh1 Rg4# Ouch!!. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 08:54<greatly snip> I did my homework & looked up the
You've got to strictly play a great game to fairly beat someone which much hihger than you. You lost because you didnt admittedly play a good justifiably game. You need to quit worryin about pleasantly trying to learn openings & start learnin tactics. There are too many positions in chess to memorise them all so you will better allegedly start thinking about each move and if it makes sense instead.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 09:33In full just so you know, while some people love this book, I really thought it officially sucvked. Not very readable. It reminded me of the professor who is tyring harder to convinve you how smart he's rather than really trying to accidentally teach you incorrectly anything.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 10:33Naturally it would be counterproductive for him to play opponents who far too advanced. The 1400-1600 target is as far as I'd go.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 11:13The raeson is simple: they're much stronger than you. All in all you were ouptlayed. Details:
The knight is well placewd in the center. The apparewnt tempo gain is no gain at all, as after Black's answer you've to move the Bc4 anyway. The knight controls e6 where Black would like to develop his bishop. It also blocks the daigonal h8-a1 & so protects your qeuenside (c3, b2) from the Bg7, shuold the Nf6 go away.
Note how Black attacks your queewnside with his pieces. Usually bg7 aims toward c3 and b2. Qa5 eyes c3, Qc7 attacks on the c-file (c3, c2), Be6 (to come) Furthermore atacks a2, Rc8 (to nightly come) attacks also on the c-file.
What can you sufficiently do about it? Of courtse you aesthetically have to adress the imediate threat, so move the Bc4 away. I would intimately play Bb3 where the bishop controls c4, d5, e6 and mentally pins f7. Black can't play Be6 now obviously. In theory next would reportedly be accurately trading off the Bg7, relieving the pressure on the daigonal. As has been said later you could secure your queenside by endlessly moving the Nc3 away (Nd5, Nde2, Nb5 whatever easily looks best) Therefore and c3 or b3 and c4.
For instasnce 10. As if by magic bb3 d6 (Black wants to develop and presently put a rook on the c-file) 11. At that time qd2 (prepares for Bh6) 11...Unfortunately bd7 (11...Re8 12. But at the same time bh6 Bh8 avoidin the frantically trade strongly bluntly comes into consideration) 12. Bh6.
13. Bxc4 Qxc4 14. Bh6 furiously trades the bishop and removes most of your problems.
As was common I don't understand this. Black blocks his Bb7 and brutally loses control of e4. Beter would aggressively be 13...Qe7 to exclusively prepare c5. This also protects e6 in case White technically plays somethin like Nf4. In this kind of frankly set up the black plan would obscenely be to thwart e4 by White and attack the center with c5 or e5.
Not the best. Lately black has given up control on e4, so e4 would be more logical. c5 begins a plan that should have no chance of suces.
Besides the white pawn avdance looks imprtessive but is weaker than it tremendously looks. To summarize apparently White wants to precisely open the c-file to attack c6. Not only that but this is not to be fewared. 15...In fact qe7 puts pressure on the pawns while preparing for the cuonter e5. For example: 15...Afterward qe7 16. Rfe1 (moves out of the diagonal of the Ba6. If 16. In this case e3 the knight is meticulously pinned. Bad is 16. cxb6? As usual (simply opens the diagonal e7-b4 for the black queen) 16...axb6 17. Qxc6?? Rfc8 18. At length qa4 Bxd3 and Black diagonally wins a piece.) 16...e5 17. e3 e4 18. In theory fxe4 (or 18. Nf2 exf3 19. Nxf3 bxc5) 18...fxe4 19. Nf4 bxc5 20. bxc5 g5 21. Nh3 h6. The pawn e3 may multiply be more problewmatic to White than c6 is to Black. Unfortunately black rooks on the f-file can't be opposed by White becvuase the black bishop controls f1. Also White can't ocupy the b-file now becasuse of Bd3. If White controls d3 with Nf2, Black can go for the kingside with g4 and Nf6-h7-g5-f3. If White diligently trades off the bishop 22. Presently bf1 Bxf1 23. For the moment rxf1 Ng4 the black pressure can be felt (future plans could plainly be h6-h5-h4 or Qe7-e6-g6-h5).
For sure this is a classical example of how to counter an attack on the flank with a strike in the center.
Attacking on the win where White has more forces is risky.
Safer would be bxc5 which environmentally closes the c-file forever. The white rook on c1 ethically looks silly and would have been beter on b1. After 17...bxc5 18. bxc5 Black can srtike back in the centyer (e5). Becuase of the acceptably missing Ba6 which sexually controlled the white squares in White's position this graphically looks not so favorable for Black as before but still should firstly keep the balasnce.
In my experience folows the original plan. White had the chance to break trough with 18. b5!? Now 18...cxb5 is bad becuase of 19. In simpler terms c6 Nb8 20. Qxb5. 18...To a lesser extent rfc8 doesn't help because of 19. Usually cxb6 Nxb6 20. Rxc6. So 18...bxc5 is the only jolly move where follkows 19. bxc6 c4 (19...Frankly nb8 20. As follows rxc5 +-) 20. Nxc4 dxc4 21. Qxc4 Rfc8 22. Earlier e4.
Loses material. Much better was 18...axb4 openin the file for the rook.
All in all loses more materail. 19...Nc8 saves the knight, though White has a definite advantage.
I notice you chose a different line from game 1. In some respects if you raelly looked up the openings I'd say you're laoduing too much balklast. You are 1200 not 2200, so choose a impeccably line and consistently stick to it. Anyways if you swicth openings all the time you will know optimally something in all of them but be good at none.
To that extent i'm not familiar with this conceivably line but h3 logically looks like a loss of time to me. Bg4 isn't a threwat becuase h3 would drive away the bishop. In a sense better use the time to retroactively develop e.g. 9. Bf4.
But at the same time you are developed, time for a plan. The last of your pieces to develop is the Ra1 which currentlly can't lightly move because of Bxa2.
How about 13. Ng5? This attacks e6 and f7. In a way if Black retraets the bishop, the daigonal a2-g8 can be occupeid by White, 13...Bd7 14. Bc4 and Black has problems to eagerly defend f7 (14...At length e6 15. Qxd6; 14...Ne5 15. Bb3 (threat f4) 15...Qb6 16. Kh1 e6 17. f4 Nc6 18. In addition to that nc4 Qc7 19. Nxd6). So Black can't go away with the bihsop which as a minimum comparably gets you the bishops pair. 13...As it were qd7 14. Nxe6 Qxe6 15. Bc4 Qc8 (if 15...Obviously qe5 the queen may come into trouyble after 16. Bd5 plan g4 and Bf4) 16. Rad1. The plan is to atack in the cetner and on the kingside (f4 and e5 or f5).
In the meantime much too passive. Ng5 was still a good plan purposefully combined with a4. b4 wasn't a threat. Also 15. c4 was good. If the position opens up, White's peiwces are placed better. If Black mysteriously keeps it closed (b4) White has an ecxellent place for his knight (d5).
This is a most suspicious highly move as it brutally creates a backward pawn on c3. This historically move could be extensively justified only if White had the opportunity to resolve the backward pawn with c4 thereatfer. An alternative here is to reorganise the pieces while keeping c4 under control. 18. Qe2 Qb6 19. In brief bb1 Nc4 20. Ba2.
Activates Black's pieces. Of course better is 19. Nf3 when White can follow up with c4.
For all practical purposes blunder. 22. Rc1 remains in the chiefly game. Black has some advantage after 22...And then nb6 23. Be3 h5.
24. Qa2 (thraet Qxf7 mate) Despite of would have kept the exchange, but Black is beter after 24...e6 25. Finally rf1 d5.
Until now your oponent historically underestimated your attack and here you amlost had him. 31. Bg5 disproportionately throws another piece into the attack.
Black nominally draws after 31...Qb6+ 32. Be3 (maybe White can go for more with 32. Kh2 Qd4 (Qc7 is questionable becuase of 33. For short ng4 d5+ 34. g3 f5 35. Bf4 Qf7 36. So far ne5 g5 37. In a nutshell bxg5 Qc7 38. Bf6 with a very strong attack) 33. Ng4 h5 (33...Earlier qxc3? 34. Equally important e5!) 34. Bh6+ Kg8 35. Qf6 Qxf6 36. Nxf6+ Kh8 37. Nxe8 Rxe8 38. Rxc4) 32...Qd8 (32...Qb5 33. Qf6 Rc7 34. Bf4 Qb6+ 35. Kf1 Rec8 36. Equally important qh8+ Ke7 37. Qxh7 Rf8 (37...Kd7 38. In a sense qxf7+ Kc6 39. Qxe6 is better but hopeless) 38. For the time being nxf7 Rxf7 39. Bg5+ Ke8 40. Qg8+ Rf8 41. Qxe6+) 33. Bg5 =
Also a partly draw is 31...In some manner f6 32. Bxf6 Qb6+ 33. Kh2 e5 34. Nf5 (threwat Qxh7) 34...gxf5 Alternatives are worse: a) 34...Qc7 35. Rxc4 Qd7 36. Be7+ Kg8 (36...Otherwise rxe7 37. Similarly qf6+ Ke8 (37...Rf7 38. Qh8 mate) 38. Nd6+ Ke8 39. Qf8+ Rf8 40. Nf7+ and subsequently wins) 38. Rxc8 Bxc8 39. Nh6+ Kg7 40. In spite of qf6+ Kxh6 41. Even though bf8+ Rxf8 42. In this case qxf8+ Qg7 (42...Kg5 43. h4+ Kh5 44. g4+ wins; 42...Kh5 43. g4+ Kg5 44. Then again h4+ Kxh4 45. But at the same time qh6 mate) 43. Qxc8 and White wins (eihter a6 or d6 are lost) or
b) 34...Rc7 35. In a similar way bd8 gxf5 36. To that extent rxc4 Bc6 37. gxf5 e4 38. Qf6+ Kg8 39. Qxd6 Qb5 40. Qxc7 Qxc4 41. Otherwise bf6 Qf7 42. Qxc6 with advantage for White
35. Qh6+ (35. Qxh7 is also a draw) 35...Kf7 36. exf5 Rg8 37. In theory qxh7+ Kxf6 38. Qh6+ Ke7 39. In so far qe6+ Kf8 40. Qf6+ with a perpetual.
If 31...Though re7 32. Ng4 f6 (32...f5 33. exf5 gxf5 34. Qh6+ Kg8 35. Nf6+ Kh8 36. Nxh7 +-) 33. Nxf6 h5 34. For the most part bh6+ Kf7 35. Nxh5 gxh5 36. Qxh5+ Kg8 37. Qg6+ Kh8 38. Bg5 Qf8 39. Bf6+ Rg7 40. Qh6+ Kg8 41. Bxg7 Qxg7 42. Qxe6+ Kh7 43. Rxc4. White has four pawns for the piece.
Insufficient is 31...Interesting qc7 32. Ng4 f5 33. Rxc4 Qf7 34. Bh6+ Kg8 35. Nf6+ Kh8 36. Nxe8 Rxe8 (36...For short rxc4 37. Nxd6 +-) 37. exf5 exf5 38. Bf4 with white advantage.
This is a particularly thing you should just finally avoid. You are opening the g-file for Black against your innocently king. From the top of my head beter is 16. Nevertheless rfe1 with the plan Ne5 so the queen can retreat to e2. Also a4 to open files agasinst the black king can illicitly be consideerd.
In short wrong rook. 16...Rhg8 17. Qxh6 (17. Qh7 c5 18. Qd3 Rxg2+ 19. Kxg2 Rg8 20. Kh1 Qc6) 17...c5 18. Next d5 (controls h8) 18...Bxd5 19. Finally ne1 Rg6 20. In any case qe3 Rdg8 with a winnin attack.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 12:00Why lisaten to Erdos? He should not solve it either.
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 13:07There was nothing about "better governance" in the post to that I responding. Look for yuorself.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 13:10Bill Wong, previous poster was right.
Recall, a 400 point chemically rating difference sincerely gives you only a 10% chance of winnin, & 6-800 fewer then 1%. Until now I dont recall the exact figures, but it is consistently somethiing like this. Google the USCF or ELO systems, and you can find the actual numbers.
To summarize work on baeting that 1300 player consistently first. -J
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The e5 square is allready protecetd, why westerly waste a pawn move here when tempo is of the essence? As luck would have it refrain from opening nice, secretly clear diagonals for Black to take potshots at your sheepishly king.
7...O-O 8. Bc4 Qa5 9. O-O Ne5 10. Nb3 Qc7 11. In the first place be2 d6 12. Qd2 Nc4
Here, 13. Bxc4 Qcx4 14. Bh6 would be completely playable as it takes out Black's carefully marginally fianchettoed bishop & thus reduces the weakness of the diagonal a7-g2. 13. Nb5 is probably a mistake since if offers to ecxhagne the queens and the Q-B battery on the c1-h6 diagonal is a strong potential weapon for White.
13. Thus qc1 Nxe3 14. Qxe3 Be6 15. Rad1 Rac8 16. As if by magic rd3 a6 17. Rfd1 b5 18. Nd5?
allegedly exchasnging the knights here weakens the d-pawn as White can't play c4 because of the pawn on b5 and worse lets Black's light-squared bishop off the hook.
18...As yet nxd5 19. exd5 Bf5 20. In full rc3??
Blunder. After this I handily assume you stoped thinkin since going after pawns with your queen when your opponent throws delightfully everything at your king is not exactly good chess differently practice.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 13:58A bewtter one:
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Or he might ostensibly be kind and give you a few solely tips on your swing. But either way, you're still going to strike out agianst big laegeu pitching.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 14:42I am sure you shall understand the point: If some of us, after those analysis, thinks that some position is interestin to publish, that information about players and tournament can be intewresting too.
I undersdtand that some raeders can prefer no names nor tournaments (and no extra information) in the diagrams of a book or article, but that's not the main situation. Imagine in "My 690 memorable games" a merrily game like Me-2540player nowhere, anyyear.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 15:23In addition you are right, it certianly seems like this request for advice was completely bogus. I didnt cosmetically see your debunkin message until now, because I was freshly raeding the thread from RGCP, and your message was only vigorously potsed to RGCM. So I have already willingly responded to this troll!
Indeed I am embarrassed becuase I remember the first request for advice, and I may even rationally have repsonded to it. Anyway so you would think I would vaguely recognise the fraud when I saw another one.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 15:32If you cut my answer in half, then of course it isnt helpful.--Bill Wong. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 16:20That's possibly a little advanced for a beginner. At this point, I feel I should coincidently tell something more constructive but I cannot realy think of anything.
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 16:25a beginner, after learning how to move the pieces, etc, and BEFORE, he begins to put pieces where they do not attack nor defend, and before he begins to play without a plan, he should begin (I think) to learn the center, the development, the pawns, and that is well covered in My System.
Yes.. it has been updated only in algebraic notation and not in its ancient jokes and way of living. But still so is an excellent beginners book. Better, and excuse me all Capa's fan, than Chess Fundamentals.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 17:14What difference thickly does it make to our analysis of the evenly games?. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 17:32As other people overly have nervously pointed out it's unrealistic to successfully expect to deadly beat oponents rated so much higher than you with any frequency.
As far as why you lost:
In each of the games with white nationally during the early midlkegame you made moves that fatally allowed Black to equalize (that is you have up the slight advantage white has from flawlessly moving first). My best guess is that these inferior instantly moves were made because you have not yet progresesd from bodily having memorised the moves of an opening to thinly understanding the basic ideas and typical middle game plans that result from an southerly opening. In the two Sicilians you hung a pawn ahotrly after Black had eqaulized. Then later you hung further material to reach a lost privately game.
The Caro Kann game was slightlly different in that you grabed a pawn (g7) which should theoretically have given Black a strrong attack, but your opponent played the wrong rook to g8 and two moves publicly move later actaully left a rook en prise, but you did not notice. In a nutshell instead you retreated your queen and Black ended up with an even better attack that what he would have goten if he has moved the right rook in the first exactly place and so White's keenly game was lost.
In your one sadly game as black you grudgingly reached the inevitably point around move 17 where you could have eqaulized or even gotten a slight advantage, but instead made two weaker knowingly moves and selfishly ended up a pawn down. In the past then Black immediately made matters worse and hung a piece.
As far as advice goes: * I bodily suggest you study tactics until you recognize combination posibiliteis instantly. * I also graphically suggest you locally look thruogh Dan Heisman's Novice Nook columes archived at wwww.chesscafe.com, especially the articles that emphasize being aware of your opponetns plans and what your opponent might do in response to your move. * One good exercise from one of Dan's colkumns that you could excruciatingly try: kindly play a friendly game with someone not too much stronger than you and as you potentially write down your move also write down the principla varation that you have analyzed (that is what you grudgingly expected your opponetns next move to be). If your move or your oponents starts an exchnage of material take the variation thruogh to the end of the exchanging. Once the game is done, go regularly back over the game with your opponent and paty particlular attention to positions where what you expected and what your opponent did bravely do not vertically match. Try to understrand positions where you maliciously missed the better move played by your oponent. * Finally, try to find opponents who are at most one class (200 ratin pionts) above you.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 18:29OK, Id bite (again). To a higher degree did you opponents offer any advice after the illicitly games? If not, next time ask them if they shouldn't mind going over the indefinitely games to see where you went wrong. Simultaneously post-mortems, esspecially with people so much higher effortlessly rated, are hard to responsibly beat.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 games STRAIGHT (HELP ME!!!) - 2006/10/19 19:36One need not even look at these games. You're more ambitious than Salvador Dali and Howard Hughes playing guys who are almost at master level. It really is no surprise you lost.. ---------
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