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Annotated by alloutwin (1200): This was a perculiar game for me in that looking through it afterwards I consider the position to be fairly even throughout. However during the match had a strange feeling that I was losing. This may be a lack of endgame knowledge on my part, but see what you think. My favoured opening move, I have reasonable success with e4, but find d4 to lead to games where I am more comfortable. The move… |
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Annotated by sarasani (1868): Hi everyone! Here is an instructive game I played at my local chessclub RSR Ivoren Toren in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (hence the name of this game).
I needed this win to be able to qualify for promotion to the next group and quite coincidentally I got the white pieces against Rampersad.
A couple of weeks ago I was present when he was analyzing one of his games where he also had the black… |
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Annotated by graderguy (1602): This game is from a mini tournament set up by Southern Chess™ team mate and registered cosmologist, ethansiegel. I play white and black is remybear a former team mate and truly all around nice fella! A heck of chess player as well, thanks for the great game Will! My standard as white, Queens Pawn. QGD, symmetrical (Austrian) defense
I have only played against this opening once, looks… |
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Annotated by imawolfnotasheep (1200): oh look a chess board and whites just there maybe i should make a move queens pawn 2 d4 i tried the queens gambit they counter gambited i took there pawn thinking i would exchange queens if they took mine poke nudge now there king has moved no castling can be done
and as i have found recently it is very awkward to stay safe wen my king has moved so early in a game but not impossible i went for… |
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Annotated by hagruzini (1200): Hello! I'm not a great player and I play with no theory, but here's my fastest win in 8 moves (of course opponent helped me to win). This, I think was the first mistake... Here black should to take my pawn by c5xd4, but... I realy don't know what black wanted to do? Now black is under mate situation or losing queen if they take move Qxc5 what black did This move ended the game (black… |
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Annotated by kookabura (1349): it is understandable that black remove the attack on his rook by Bf4, but leaving his back rank is the mistake that ultimately loses the game the only option for removing check is Qd8 white has turned the tables black incurs heavy casualties - if white plays his cards right, this is essentially a won game black creates too much "air" between his … |
