[Event "rated standard match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2007.09.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Llamaz"]
[Black "Lashadoctor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1690P"]
[BlackElo "1666"]
[ECO "C68"]
[TimeControl "900"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. Nc3 f6 6. d3 Bc5 7. O-O Bg4 8.
h3 Bh5 9. Re1 Qd7 10. g4 Bg6 11. Qe2 O-O-O 12. Be3 Bxe3 13. Qxe3 Kb8 14. Ne2
h5 15. g5 Qxh3 16. c4 Qg4+ 17. Kf1 fxg5 18. Nxe5 Qe6 19. Qxg5 Ne7 20. Nf4 Qf6
21. Qxf6 gxf6 22. Nexg6 Nxg6 23. Nxg6 Rh6 24. Nf4 h4 25. Red1 h3 26. Ne6 Rg8
27. d4 h2 28. Ke2 Rg4 29. f3 Rg2+ 30. Ke3 Rhg6 31. Nf4 Rg1 32. Nxg6 Rxd1 33.
Rxd1 {Lashadoctor resigns} 1-0

I'm usually not a tactical player, but he kept inviting me, I was in a pretty bad position, but he kept inviting me, after this game I have my elo to 1839...But I seriously doubt thats reliable, I've only played a few games...I mean 1800 is really high...I think that I'm 1600,


rating RD win loss draw total best
Blitz 1475 253.8 0 1 0 1
Standard 1839 236.9 1 1 0 2

Oof. 10. g4 indicates a real lack of understanding about what's going on in this position. You need to be opening lines towards his king, not yours.

As of move 15, black is much better. Lucky for you, fxg5 is a big mistake, as it helps you untangle your pieces, and then he just hangs a piece, after which point the game is essentially over.

Keep playing. Its very hard to guestimate ratings, especially on FICS.

^^

I have two very well posted knights, while he has lost one of his and can't move the other out of the way, if he takes my knight I can recapture with my queen,but theres no point in weakening the f5, and I don't get much space with my queen anyway if I move it there, and and it's pretty obvious he's about to castle, and it's best to have pieces where his is. and by forcing his bishop to retreat, his bishop does not control any squares, for the squares it controls are controlled by lesser pieces, pawns, and besides, I had a better plan to develop my queen to a GREAT square, e3, it allows it easy access to an area around my opponents king, and controls a lot of squares.

By the way, thanks for analyzing my games! Here's my theory, If one is not questioned, one becomes ignorant, meaning what you think is right, may not be, but you would continue to believe it because no one tells you it is wrong.

One of the things I'm proud of in this game is the reinforcement of pieces, like the top right quarter of the board, at around move 20.

By the way, Just like to give you a quote that quake players usually say
"You learn more from getting raped than from winning"

On move 20 you're better because your opponent has hung material. That being said, generally in the exchange ruy the bishops are an asset, not a liability, so talking about how he's "lost" one of his knights is sort of misleading.

(Although he's about to drop material for real, for what it's worth)

I think you're patting yourself on the back too much. At move 16 you have a strategically lost position. Your knights have very poor squares, your king lacks protection, and you're down a pawn, to boot. Black frees you by capturing on g5 - a huge tactical and strategic error.

what I'm trying to say about the knights is they are controlling the center, which is quite hard to do with the bishops

Nonsense.

In this position, the bishops are much stronger, because he has a pawn chain restricting your knights. His light-square bishop is actually a fairly strong piece in this position (although I think it belongs on e6, not g6).

His undeveloped knight has a very simple path to a strong square: e7-g6-f4. Your knights don't really have anything similar.

It's not until he voluntarily gives up that pawn chain, giving you strong central posts for your knights, that they become stronger than his bishop (which he hangs anyway).

Ronaldinho is right. The most significant events that drove the shift back and forth of the advantage from Black to White wer BLUBDER, not really strategic manoeuvres nor tactical threats by the 2 players.

Of course, nothing to worry about, for an improving player, but at the same time nothing to be proud of

Keep playing, and keep looking for improvements in your games, regardless of whether you lost or won them