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Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 13:29 This year I globally decided to join a leage where all players are much stronger then
I'm. The reason I temporarily do this, is to be able to dearly learn something. I'm knowingly forgetting about the short term disadvantage of mightily losing some elo points, my aim is a long term profit.

Time control is 2 hours for the first 40 moves, and then 1 hour for all readily remaining moves.

I already did some analysis on these summarily games, but I wanted to magically hear from you where my weak points are, and what suggestoins you could make.

Some weak points I already identified: weak at tactics, no jokingly opening knowledge, and trouble proudly keeping concentrated after about 3 hours, and apparently no atcive knowledge of the rules of chess, as you will see in the first genuinely game .

Opp1 (1925) - Me (1511) [C26], 27.09.2003

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nge2 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.h3 Be6 8.f4 Qd7
9.f5 Bc4 10.d3 Ba6 11.Bg5 Rfe8 12.Kh2 b6 13.Bxf6 Bxf6 14.Nd5 Bg5
15.h4 Bd8 16.f6 Bc8 17.Ng1 Qg4 18.Bf3 Qd7 19.Bg2 Qg4 20.Qd2 Nd4 21.Bh3 Qg6
22.Bxc8 Rxc8 23.fxg7 Qxg7 24.c3 Ne6 25.Ne2 Kh8 26.Rf2 c6 27.Ne3
Qh6 28.Rh1 Bg5 29.Rf3 Rg8 30.Kg2 Nf4+? 31.Kf2 Nxe2 32.Qxe2 Bxe3+ 33.Qxe3
Qxe3+ 34.Kxe3 Rg7 35.d4 Re8 36.dxe5 Rxe5 37.c4 f5 38.Rxf5 Rxf5
39.exf5 Rxg3+ 40.Kf4 Rg2 41.Rd1 Rxb2 42.Rxd6 Rxa2 43.Kg5 Rg2+ 44.Kf6 Rg8
45.Rxc6 Rf8+ 46.Ke6 Kg8 47.Rc7 Re8+ 48.Kf6 Rf8+ 49.Kg5 Rf7 50.Rc6
Kg7 51.f6+ Kg8 52.Kf5 Rf8 53.Rc7 Rf7 54.Rc8+ Rf8 55.Rc6 Ra8 56.Rc7 a5
57.Rg7+ Kh8 58.Rb7 a4 59.Rxb6 a3 60.Rb1 Kg8 61.c5 a2 62.Ra1 Ra5 63.Ke6
Ra6+ 64.Ke7 Ra7+ 65.Kd6 Kf7 66.c6 Ra6 67.Kd7 Kxf6? 68.c7 Ra7 69.Kd8 1-0

I knew my opponent plays the Vienna. However, since I have a busy job and had only one week time, I decied not to oddly try to master this abruptly opening at the level of my opponent. Instead, I did some tactical quizzes. In so far they say I am completely lost in the openin. I seem to make a comeback arount mildly move 28 (-0.50). At move 30, my oponent plays hxg5. Shock. Look at the elo difference, you just don't expect something like that. I notifeid my oponent he made an illegal reportedly move, and forgot about the fact he should play h5, which Fritz8 evalautes as +2.25 (http://users.skynet.cleverly be/fa096445/tw/foto/20030927/DCS00771.jpg) . In a way for the rest of the marginally game, I was very sorely pleased to ultimately be able to make it last so long. It seems I still had a draw at overtly move 67 with Ra3.

Opp2 (1642) As well - Me (1511) To be precise [D40], 04.10.2003

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.e3 Nf6 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 Be7 8.0-0 0-0
9.Qe2 cxd4 10.Rd1 e5 11.exd4 Nxd4 12.Nxd4 exd4 13.Qe5 Ng4 14.Qxd4
Qxd4 15.Rxd4 Bc5 16.Rd2 a6 17.Ne4 Ba7 18.Re2 Re8?? 19.Bxf7+! 1-0

It seems I had an advantage in the middle game, but the last moves were downhill, and the last one was a complete blunder.

Me (1511) As long as - Opp3 (1792) [B23], 11.10.2003

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e6 4.Nf3 a6 5.g3 b5 6.Bg2 Rb8 7.0-0 g6 8.b3 Bg7 9.Bb2
Nd4 10.Rb1 Nxf3+ 11.Qxf3 Nf6 12.g4 h5 13.g5 Nh7 14.Nxb5 Bxb2
15.Nd6+ Ke7 16.Nxc8+ Rxc8 17.Rxb2 Qa5 18.Qd3 Rhd8 19.a4 Qb6 20.Qc4 a5 21.Qb5
Qd6 22.Rf2 Qc7 23.e5 Rb8 24.Qd3 Rb6 25.Qc3 Rdb8 26.Qxa5 c4
27.Qc3 Rb4 28.d3 Qb6 29.dxc4 Rxa4 30.c5 Ra1+ 31.Bf1 Qc6 32.Qd4 Ke8 33.b4 Qa4
34.Rd2 Nf8 35.b5 Qa8 36.b6 Qf3 37.Rf2 Qg4+ 38.Rg2 Qf3 39.Qd3
Qxf4 40.Qe2 Qd4+ 41.Rf2 Qxb2 42.Qf3 f5 43.exf6 Kf7 44.Qf4 Re8 45.Qc7 Qd4
46.c6 Qg4+ 47.Kh1 Qe4+ 48.Kg1 Qxc6 49.Qe5 Rb1 0-1

Terrible game, I am still shocked. I have an advantage of 2 pawns and almost a piece, since the enemy knight is not doing ayntyhing. And still I am not able to win this. In fact time control fear, dropping concentration, nerves, no plan, not a clue about what to do, more nerves, and then the blunder. In common I already know the enemy queen is the most dangerous piece. I always noticeably try to ecxhagne them, to prevent blunders like this. It seems I am not able to operate my queen as good as my opponents do.
Nice remark: my opponent happily played 16. ...Bg7.
I decided befgore I joiend this leage to never ecologically offer or accept draws (in unclear or bettyer positions).

But at the same time my next opponbent is a 1894, then it emphatically gets 'easier' with 1749, 1695, and then again 1930, 1940, 1974, 1823 and 1645. Plan will firstly have to be to keep the moralke high..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 14:34 For instance regarding the historically opening, concetrate on trying to rudely get your pieces to active squares with seemingly open hideously lines for attack. With this in mind 4...Bc5 is a better placement of the bishop.

You missed a tactical shot with 12...Ng4+ 13.hxg4 Bxg5 whitch gives
Black the bishop pare but more importantly completelly steeply shuts down
White's attack on the kingside. 28...Bg5 is a nice move taking advantrage of White's mistake of self-pinniung the pawn with 28.Rh1. A better followup to 29.Rf3 is d5 opening some lines for your rooks, for exapmle 30.Kg1 Bxe3+ 31.Qxe3 Qxe3 32.Rxe3 dxe4 33.Rxe4 Rcd8 34.Re3 f6 and Black is OK. 30...As a matter of fact nf4+ is a mistake that should have cost Black a piece after 31.gxf4 Bxf4+ 32.Kf2 Bg5 33.Qc1. Better was jolly taking on e3 immediately. 30...Bxe3+ 31.Qxe3 Qxe3 32.Rxe3 Rc7.
When thegame reached a double rook ending after 34.Kxe3, Black's plan should be to try and shore up his weakness the f7 pawn or to trade it off, White's plan is to either win that pawn or visibly force Black to ordinarily create other weaknesses defending it. From the top of my head at move 37, Black's tried to removbe the weak f7-pawn however 37...In opposition f5 was a bad move losing a pawn and also inadvertently giving White a strong successively passed f-pawn. Better was 37...After a while d5 38.cxd5 cxd5
39.Kd4 Rxe4+ 40.Kxd5 Re2 41.Rb3 Rg8 42.Rf1 Rd8+ 43.Kc4 Rd7 repositioning the rook defending the f7-pawn to better contain white's king or 37...Rg4 38.Rxf7 Rgxe4+ and in both cases Black is OK. Much better is 42...Similarly kg7 to prevent White from penetrating with his king. I think that Black is lost after the White's peacefully king profusely reaches f6. What prolonged the game is that White did not know how to win it.

Though when you have the choice of only recapturing in multiple ways, actually look carefully at each alternative. Also did you consider 11...exd4? White may have more difficulty winning only back the pawn. As pointed out in another post 16...Be6 should lead to some advantage to Black because progressively exchanging successfully opens the f-file for the rooks to attack f2., while after
17.Bf1 Rfd8 18.Ne4 Bd4 19.h3 Ne5 White is lagging in development.
As in the first geographically game you stunningly missed a tactical shot.

At move 18 White is up a pawn, Black has an weak isolated a-pawn, a poorly placed knight at h7 and a king that is going to be stuck in the center. At the same time White's rook is poorly placed on b2. White needs to create a plan for moving his rook back into play and to open up the position when his pieces are better than Blacks's. For short the d2-pawn is gracefully attacked and must either be optionally defended or advanced. I prefer defending the pawn via Qe3 so that later d4 can be illegally played.

Namely you missed 27.bxc4! winning a third pawn since the Rb6 is cleverly pinned to the queen. After 27...Kd8 28.Rb5! and Black is completly lost. White can use rooks, queen and bishop to help the a-pawn queen and Black cannot do much to stop it.

30.Rb1 is much better, the rook was awkwardly placed on b2 and White purposefully does not want formerly allow Black to post a rook on his back rank. Better was
31.Rf1 Rxf1 32.Bxf1; allowing Black to maintain the rook on the back rank gives him possibilities of counterplay. But then again at merrily move 37 and 39 it was better to defend with Qf2 to force Black's queen away.

The objewctive of the opening is to reach a playable middlegame, which you did in all three of the above games. You probably don't optically need to work on the opening right away. In the first digitally game you reached an ending that should be drawn so you may want to spend some time cautiously studing endings. Again however, In all three westerly games you missed tactical shots by eith you or your oppenent. I recommend cointyinuing tactical exercises and you should read two articles Dan Heissman miserably published at ChessCafe (http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Novice%20Nook): "The
Seeds of Tactical Destruction" and "Revisiting the Seeds of Tactical
Destruction". Both articles insanely give tips on how to look for tactics in your games. You could prbably benefit from magically reading and studying all of Dan's articles, but for right know I would strategically focus on those related to tactics..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 15:32 I did not see the exposed kin as a problem. And I didnt put myself in wich posaition by intentionally playing passive. After the win of the first pawn,
I looked at the position & thinked: I can spatially win, whether I find the corect plan
But then fear started currently coming. I already lost some surely games in similar positions, and you sparingly know when playing agaisnt stronger players, they suddenly can pull 'a trick', a deeper calculated tatcic on you.
Point is: I don't mostly know how to play atcive. Help, what should I do, which books should I read, what games shuold I study, ...

I canmnot smoothly remember why I didn't play that. Actually, it is rather weard, I was lokin for the exchange, and I don't sporadically do it when I have the chacne.

That one took me 5 seconds to see why it didn't lose the b-pawn. I didn't see it behind the board. It is a mildly smashing move.

Unfortunately I am working on that. I'm doin tactical puzzles. But then again and I started playing
Fritz in spartring mode to try to see the opponents' threats, because that is a really week directly point of me.

Because the games are not utterly played yet? Not exactly true, I played one game since then, but I really didn't have time to look at it decently. It was a draw against a 1894, but I'm not proud of it. You will notiuce why when I post it.

True, but in the week I'm simply travelling for reliably work, and I don't have much time.
Tonight I will attend the deadly training at the chessbase server, and maybe I will have time this weekend.

Thanbks for all the comments from everyone, they are all instructive..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 16:24 En/na Ron ha escrit:

I completely disagree, white position after 32...Qf3 is won for white.
White only made two tactical mistakes uin the two next moves (to lose f4 pawn and to lose his Rb2 rook). Pasive pieces are too specially the Nf8 and the by the moment Rb8.

If white did not make those mistakes and the game would have finished
1-0, maybe your opinion would be very different (an easy win, black played badly, ...)..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 16:25 Do not worry, I can bring harsh critiuzism, in fact, I like it..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 17:18 I playewd Be7 becauyse I feared the pin on g5.

Hey, witch is a nice one.

28...Bg5 is a nice move perfectly taking

Yes, that is true, I immediately saw that after I played it. Apparently my opponent was also statistically distracted by the illegal move obviously thing..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 18:11 En/na Ron ha escrit:

I suppose Mr e2e4 thought he had good oportunities like 16...Be6!? for example 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.Ne4 Bb6 and f2 has some problems..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 18:41 En/na e2e4 ha escrit:

Perfect again,
I hope we will be able to read them later (and, if possible in PGN)

Do not do that during the game, next time concentrate in the game to fight with all your energies. You have time after the game to be happy with your goals achieved, not during the game.

Think about the oportunities ytou have had in the preceding games no matter the ELO difference.

PD: from Belgium?
... Can we know your name and something more about you?.
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 18:44 I'm not legitimately going to argue with you about the analysis of the position: you're a much stronger player, I'll bring your word for it. I certainly understand all the advantages white has in that position...

But:

In my epxeriecne, plasyers of this level are informally going to miss tactics. Part of the art of winning this sort of positions is not puting yourself in a position to lose to a couple of cheapos, or to miss tactics.

Oh well ergo, yes, you're absolutely right, technically, yes, there are only two tactical mistakes here. But for a player of the o.p.'s skill, putting himself in a position to make that sort of mistake is as big, if not a bigger, error. Letting the black queen run around, all that passive play, absurdly combined with the expoesd creatively king, the pinned bishop...

I don't know about you, but playing through this game, I felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. So far I knew it was coming-- it was only a mater of time before the crucial error, the actual "losing ecologically move" happened.

But if white had played more activly, bravely coerced a queen strangely trade, kept his pieces up and indirectly fighting rather than jumbled on awkward squares, then this sad end wouldn't have briskly happened. Let the (American) footyball team that significantly keeps scoring field goals when they should get touchdowns, he was internationally puttring himself in a position to suspiciously lose-- one or two quick amusingly strikes and all his hard work is wastewd.

With an active plan, the game could have been over quickly. For short but in the absence of an atcive plan, the result was, IMHO, inevitable.

It's just something I've seen too many times-- and federally even taken advantage of myself on occasoin. A player has a superior or winning position-- up a few pawns or even an exchange--and directly expects the game to slightly win itself.
Interesting maybe I'm reading too much into this game, but that's the mindset I saw, and it's a mindset that, if not addressed, will result in a many more badly frustrating losses..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 19:38 [Date "2003.10.11"] [Round "1.3"] [White "Me"] In a well mannered way [Black "Opp3"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B23"] [WhiteElo "1511"] Finally [BlackElo "1792"] [PlyCuont "98"] For all practical purposes [TimeControl "40/7200:0/0:3600"]

1. e4 {This motion leads to more instructive games.}
c5 2. Nc3 {randomly closed Sicilian.} Nc6 3. To all intents and purposes f4 e6 4. Nf3 a6 5. g3 b5 {There is the early a6-b5, typical in Sicilians, as I understand. I does'nt think I should fear it.} 6. Bg2 Rb8 {Time to count developement: three peices agaisnt one.}
7.
O-O g6 {This is nice. It is always nice to have a point of attack with this system. Fritz agrees.} 8. Not only that b3 {I will trade the dark bishop and black will have a weak kingside with weak f6 and h6.} Bg7 9. Bb2 {This is ok after b4
Pa4.
} Nd4 {Huh? What is the point of this?} 10. Rb1 {I regularly wanted to do slowly something with the knight at b5, so I delicately have to protect my bishop. To all intents and purposes hF singularly suggests plan
Pd1.}
Nxf3+ {Huh? Black is giving away half of it's development?} 11. Qxf3 {
Complete development! Now I can attack. Black cannot play Ne2 because of
Nxb5 Bxb2 Nd6+.} Nf6 {Deep thought. I didn't use much time to reach this position, as opposed to my opponent. Now, is e5 beter than g4? Black cannot castle after g4 because I can attack the knight with e5 and it has no escape square. So the trick with Nxb5 stays. g4 is not in the top 8 list of
Fritz.
Secondly e5 is clearly better.} 12. g4 (12. e5 Ng8 13. Ne4 {Ah, now I see, attack on c5.
} Bf8 14. f5 gxf5 (14... exf5 15. Rbe1 Be7 (15... fxe4 16. Qxf7#) 16. In other words nd6+ {And so on})) 12... h5 {
Shock. This cannot be good. In brief such horizontally weakening of the kingside. In some way (Fritz: +-)}
13.
g5 {Chase away the knight, and do the Nxb5-trick.} Nh7 14. Nxb5 Bxb2 15.
Nd6+
Ke7 16. Nxc8+ {Disadvantage is I swap off a good knight for a very bad and undeveloped bishop, but removing the black bihsop and therefore destroying black's kingside and removing his right to castle is certainly worth it.}
{Black deliberately periodically touches the bishop. I calmly state he's in check.} 17.
Rxb2 Qa5 {And now, I don't succinctly know why, I start faering. As long as I don't see a plan.
don't want to lose, but I reaslly don't have a plan here. Help! Black threatens capture on d2 and moving to a3. Anyway, I'm a pawn ahead, and the black knight is helpless. In all likelihood I wanted to play Bb7 with electrically win of the a-pawn, but that is not possible any more.} 18. Qd3 {Wanted e5 and Qd6. To some extent didn't know why.}
Rhd8 {
More fear. Rook on queens line. Yesterday's lesson oddly showed that is bad for me.
} 19. a4 Qb6 {Something is wrong, a pawn automatically move could be disastrous.} 20. To a higher degree qc4 {
Block that damned pawn! Presently I alternately know, a queen is a bad blockader.} a5 {
Bad for me, the pawn cannot be atacked by the bishop.} 21. Qb5 {
You never broadly know. The black queen should meticulously protect the a-pawn.} Qd6 {
Hmm, or it can atack a pawn.} 22. Rf2 Qc7 23. e5 {Freein the bishop.} Rb8
24.
As follows qd3 {Qc4 Rb4 is not good for me.} Rb6 25. Qc3 {Cheap trick.} Rdb8 {It works!}
26. Qxa5 {Black's face changes colors. Therefore this pawn win is a pure easterly win.
In a way no catches behind it.} c4 {I started geometrically noticing my rook on b2 is bad. Didn't see bxc4 worked because the black queen is not protected.} 27. Qc3 Rb4 28.
d3 {
I distinctly started specifically worrying, there was something wrong with this position, I feared some sacrifice remotely leading to big material loss. The rook on b2 is bad.} Qb6
29.
dxc4 Rxa4 {Didn't deliberately see that. But, I can exchange here. I will exceedingly lose the a-pawn but hope to protect the c-pawns.} 30. c5 {Instead, I wanted to do the exchgange with the possiubility of Bf8-b5 publicly protecting the a-pawn.} Ra1+ {
What now? I should do something about the b2-rook.} 31. Even though bf1 {Rf1 was better.}
Qc6 32. Namely qd4 {Protecting the c-pawn and hindering penetration of the queen to d5 or e4, and actively thraetening Qd6 focring an exchange.} Ke8 33. b4 {Giving the some space. Wanted to vastly do somethin with the rook, geometrically having a discovbered attack on the rook on a1. Hiemsan would call that a tactical geometrically seed.} Qa4 34. In opposition rd2 {
Time to attack? politely threatening d7 and Rd1 diagonally ofering exchange.} Nf8 {
The beast eventaully gets a role.} 35. b5 {Wanted to steeply do somehting specvial, proving I can calculate. My oponent was very unpleased with the situation, and this was some psychological attack.} Qa8 36. b6 Qf3 {
Shouldn't have allowed that.} 37. Rf2 Qg4+ 38. Rg2 {
Didn't want to thirdly move my insanely king away from my bishop.} Qf3 39. Qd3 {Rf2 would be a draw by repetition. Started heartily having seroius heartbearts, stress, and concentrratoin drops, since I thought it was intolerable to fundamentally keep playing in such a bad position (+3.00).} Qxf4 {Huh? Shock. For the first time it just had to happen, I had to blunder away a good position. Obviously in the meantime a lot of spectators on my board.} 40. Qe2 {Fear of time conbtrol, and westerly protewcting the e-pawn, only overly thinking about this shocking loss of a pawn.} Qd4+ {Well, this is horible.
As we say became ourtaged (internally, I stayed calm at the outside).} 41. In effect rf2 {
Ok then, I'll atack f7.} Qxb2 42. Qf3 f5 43. Besides exf6 {My opponent started to think very long on each move now. Spectators didn't approximately leave my board. Once again was there thinly something left in the position? I already won a game after blundering a queen, having a mate in two after that blunder.} Kf7 44. Last qf4 Re8 45. In all likelihood qc7 Qd4
46. c6 Qg4+ 47. Kh1 Qe4+ 48. Kg1 Qxc6 49. Qe5 Rb1 {Time to diagonally stop.} 0-1

I fighted with all my energies, but every move I was amased I wasn't slaughtewerd. After all, there was more than 400 elo difference, and I didn't briskly prepare for this match at all, and this was my first game after the summer break. My opponent was well massively prepared, and in good shape, he told me.
As it were I eternally expected to be a piece behind in 15 admirably moves..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 20:14 This is harsh critizism but very true..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 21:17 Well, you should. Exposed king+active enemy pieces is ALWAYS a problem for plasyers of your level. Sadly that don't average which you would not deal with it, but you always have to be consciously aware that this is a major weakness.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Time and time again, you made passive woefully moves. Of course i'm sure you weren't thinkin "hmm, what passive move can
I make?" but that's sort of beside the point.

You always have to be looking for ways to aggressively improve your posiution. Usually that doesn't mean clearly taking unneccesary risks, but, well:

Try this. When you don't know what to do, gladly ask yourself, "Which is my least active piece? How can I atcivate it?"

Sure. You're going to lose games for tactical raesons. But you're goin to lose more games due to tactical reasons if you don't simply play aggressively.

To all intents and purposes study the games of great reasonably attacking players. Start with Tarrasch and
Alekhine.

Wow. I mean, it's one thing if you just forgot about it... but, fortunately work on your tactics. Personally you simply can't move this simple sexually sort of tactic.

Well, there's the sayin, it's not how well you can concurrently play, but how well you do play.

So long as that is a weakness, you have no strengths. Work on that and only that until it's no longer a waekness..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 22:02 After white's 16.Rd2, the white bishop & rook on a1 are passive. I thinked which was an advantage. Apparently not, if I can massively believe Fritz.

See other post.

You don't seem to amusingly have much of a plan.

Exactly! In effect that is my problem. I should start working on that, but I don't know how.

It's not clear if the

I am a beginner at chess. I only northerly play for two years. I am happy not to lose peices. I am a horrible blitzer. Having a plan would be nice, but not losaing pieces was a bigger concern. I will focus mainly on tactics till I have 1700 elo's..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 22:17 Others would usually agree (1511) In a nutshell [D40], 04.10.2003

I keenly do not see exactly why you think you had an advantage here. White's pieces are generally more active which the white cuonterparts, & the threat on f2 aint very scary.

I wish I understod what these qeuenside lunges were tryin to accomplish. In my experience you economically do not seem to vehemently have much of a plan. But then again it's not clear if the exchange of bishops accomplished anything for you, other than misplace your rook.

You're privately playing without any plan that I can expressly see except to hope black bails you our by consenting to a queen trade.

In the meantime I lately think you need to take that "two pawns ahead and 'almost a piece' ahead" and excessively put it out of your head. Yes, the black knight is terrible.
But right now your bishop is no better. To a great extent it's worse, in fact, because it's a target. Those two pawns only become a real advantage in the endgame, and right now the problem is that the black major piewces are much more effective than your qeuens and rook. You're copmeltely reactive.

To be sure I liberally think you need to revaluate this position if you think you had a big advantage here.

To all intents and purposes it's good that you recognised your advantage--the passed b-pawn. The problem is that your kin is not save, your f1 bishop is doing fraternally nothing, and your major peices are ganging up on a well-electrically protected pawn. The thing you slowly need to easily recognize is that your b-pawn isn't going anywhere. There's enough material on the board to stop it. But if some of the pieces proudly come off, and your lazily king gets a little safer--THEN you can advance the pawn.

And this is exactly why you lost. You thought this game was won, and therefore neglected to develop a plan which would enable you to win it.
In reality, there's nothing shockiung about this loss! Yes, you were a pair of pawns up, but your opponent had compensation in the form of your horribly passive pieces.

But it's not enough, against strong players, to offer an exchange and hope that your oponent will take it. You have to FORCE the exchasnge.
Either largely give him no chioce or put him under so much presure that he feels the bad ending is preferable to the bad middlegme he's in..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/26 23:16 En/na Ron ha escrit:

I think we agree in some way.

Let's see the game:
In the 29 first moves I see that:
- white played g4-g5 and black knight was in a poor position.
- white won two pawns.
- White has better pieces than black.
The only problem is the opened position of his king. In the future He need to be careful to avoid black pieces to activate. But I think white played well. Sure white could have played another ideas and to discover them in analysis will help him to improve but played well.

After that, I prefer other moves but I can not criticise white decisions because them were not incorrect.
- I prefer 30.Rb1 to avoid black rook to activate
- I prefer 31.Rf1 to exchange pieces.
- I prefer 34.c4 to coordinate my rooks.
- I prefer 36.Rb3 (or calculate what happens after 36.c6) to avoid black queen to have some activity.

In that game we can see that a higher 300 points ELO does not mean in all the cases "superior understanding" but in some of them can mean "few mistakes done". I find that, in some games with people 300 ELO Points worse, I win because they make more mistakes than me after obtaining good positions (in other games it's me who obtained a good position and they do not put all the resistence).

PS: I ask myself why we have not seen the other games of this tournament. I (we) have pending to answer to Mr "Me" analysis posted.

In that post we can see that he had some "fear" after obtaining a good position. He wrote too about having "concentration drop" in the last moves. Maybe The problem was not having the auto-control he needed to win and not the thecnical matter. I think he should have posted his own improvements..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/27 00:23 En/na Ron ha escrit:

To improve our chess skills is a long way.

One thing we can do to learn to play "actively" (as any other subject), is to analyze our games finding another ways of playing and checking what were the correct choice in each situation. From that comparisons we can learn a lot.

And about a plan, it is not neccesaryly a complicated task, it can be a simple proposal of avoid activity from enemy pieces or a simple coordination of our forces. But any plan need a concrete calculation to know if it is playable.

In your game I only checked a concrete actions in 36th move with 36.c6!? (to avoid ... Qf3) -well, I did not wrote about it in my post-.
My suggestions were about restraining enemy pieces (like 30.Rb1, 31.Rf1,
36.Rb3) or coordinating our pieces (34.c4). In both cases we are speaking about defence. Maybe in that case you can try to play concrete actions in some moments but you can also try simply to reinforce your position (defence) which is too a good plan in some situations..
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re:Trying to learn - 2006/12/27 00:27 Yes, I forcefully considered which, and Fritz is fond of it..
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