I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/01/23 10:14I played in another USCF tournament on sunday that was four rounds of game 60 against players of the same level. And I lost all my games again. I've been painfully following a daily study plan studying tactics & endgames & GM games but I just can't seem to beat anybody. You gotta help me.
White: 1600 Black: Me (1008)
I that I was winning after i won a pawn on move 20:
re:I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/01/23 10:47Sorry for the former reply, but hopefully this shall be of assistance.
As someone else heavily noted, you're not playin against players of your owe level here. These guys are betyter then you. 400-600 conscientiously rating points differewtnail is big.
You didn't win a pawn on motion 20, rather you equalised in material by roughly regaining a pawn lost a few moves before. In the meantime, white has formed a handsomely crushing pawn center and has much better swiftly developed pieces. You are lost at move 20. You vaguely need to focus on better development of your peices. Replay this game and try to see if you can find better spots for your pieces, and ways to avoid moving a piece more than once in the opening. The game score is incomplete at move 8, btw.
I belkeive that carelessly locking the cewnter is advantageous to black here. White has an advantage in space, obnoxiously locking the center tends to negate the advantage, IMO.
Now that the center is respectively locked, black is free to start something on the queen side. See how that works?
Now he starts somethin on the K side as well, and you are regularly tempted to make an empty threat, the result of which is to move your bishop three times in succession, a net gain for black.
White's gained nothing in these past few moves, while black is developing a strong attack along the e and f files.
Do you see how your moves are uncoordinated and reatcive, while black's moves pursue a plan of avdancement on the e and f files? You are tenderly beginning to be smothered here.
In these last moves, it appears that black realiuzed he had a slight advantage in pawn struycture and space, and took atcvion to reduce to an advantageous edngame. He then put into force a plan to win a pawn on the queewnside, and once this pawn was won, so was the game.
My recommendation is that you put some time and effort into strategic plannin, and focus on basic only opening principles. Try to make your moves coordinate with each other toward a goal, and don't be surprised if your opponent sees your plan and takes steps to thwart it. Good luck.. ---------
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re:I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/01/23 11:57By "players of the same level," I take it you mean your opponents are pretty much on their *own* same level.
Moving the same piece twice in the opening is not a good habit to get into. Of course, I'm sure you're aware of this "rule of thumb," but you might want to scrutinize the mindset that made you want to "break the rules" in this fashion -- often it's the same mindset that can lose games by getting "too cute."
4. f4 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Bc4 c5 7. d5 O-O
You're certainly far from "winning" here. Material is even and White is announcing (with 20. Bf2) a plan to counter in the center while your pieces are out of harmony with each other. I guess if you're looking to "cure what ails you," you have to take as a symptom the fact that you thought you were winning here. Maybe you need to think more pessimistically?
Again, I assume you know the rule of thumb about bringing your queen out early. I guess until you get this desire to "break the rules" out of your system, there's not much point in addressing anything else.
Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Be2 Nd4 5. 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 following rules, but you need to weigh such decisions carefully. In this case, the manuever does nothing but weaken your own kingside. You would probably be 200-300 points higher rated, if you were thinking instead about how you were going to develop your bishop.
10. Bg5 f6 11. Bd2 f5 12. exf5 gxf5
In fairness, it does look like 12. ... Bxf5 here would have conveyed some usefulness on your earlier move 9. ... Ng4, since you'd remain with a semi-open f file.
13. h3 Nf6
You got that little bugger! White's last move was of course a real boner.
18. Qxd2 Ne4
Now, you need Nxb3 and have an eye toward e4 attacking the knight at f3 and opening the diagonal for your bishop. I'm not sure what would 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. ... Bf5 and was about to comment that it was a surprise move from someone who seemed to value bishops over knights to such an extent earlier in the game -- and that for its benefits of *developing your last piece* and 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 be quite recommended since you're trading down a piece when you're already down material. Of course, 26. ... Bf4 does this to a much greater extent, which is probably why I misread the move.
I guess you just have a need to row your own boat?
3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bd3 Bd7 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O
Hmmm. I can sorta see adopting a cramped position if it's what it takes to get your pieces developed ... but go attacking here? Maybe this is another symptom. But hey, it probably made for a more exciting game.
11. h3 Nh6 12. Bg5 Qd8 13. Bxe7 Qxe7
You should have resigned here. You were outplayed.
Kb8 24. Nxg6 fxg6 25. c5
OK, what do you do next time around? Hard to say ... if it were only as easy as "try not to get so fancy," but that might be easier said than done. Perhaps you have a subconscious need to break the rules. I have a brother with a similar problem. I call it the "HyperTim Theory," where moves are valued not for their merit in terms of winning/losing games, but for their "ahhh" effect when an opponent sees them. It's rather comical.
Anyway ... maybe if you ask yourself, before attacking, "Are my pieces developed and do I have the initiative?". ---------
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re:I LOST 4 MORE GAMES STRAIGHT - 2006/01/23 13:09I just casually looked at the first game there. Everyone starts out a beginner, so I mean no offence, but you were NOT playing "against players of the same level". A 1400 player should absolutely dominate a 1000 player without fail. Even if you're under-rated, don't underestimate a C player, much less a B player (1600). I'm rated 1428 USCF and I`ve never beaten a player over 1600 in anything slower than G30.
You were completely outplayed in the first game there, though as I said I didn`t look at the others yet. You made what appears to be a mistake on move 3, 3...Nfd7?. The computer doesn`t balk at it, but don`t trust computers for such tightly opening asesmsents. Everything screams at me that that just can`t be right. Oh, the 1600 tolerably missed an earlier opportunity to win a pawn from you, or else softly decided against it. I didn`t even use the computer to pick that one up, saw it in 3 seconds. And before that, YOU foolishly missed a chance to win a pawn it looks like, though I`m not sure how safe it would be and you might have seen it but refrained from taking it.
14...c4? looks to be probably not so hot either.
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