To improve one's chess play, reading books and famous games is an established but boring way to improve your skill. So I have resorted to playing continuously instead which is far more entertaining but also far slower. Since the last month I started playing I have played 500 (!!) 10 min games on chess.com .
Occasionally I look at famous games. My amateur chess expert has advised me to look at the games of Paul Morphy first. I started looking at the games but then I realized that although improving is only possible when you analyze games, it is far more rewarding and easier to analyze your own games. I played this interesting chess game recently. I am going to analyze my own and my opponent's mistakes from the principles I have gathered. Please post improvements/suggestions in comments.
Also since its turning out to be very difficult to include a dynamic chess board on blogger, I am just including the link to the game here : game?id=561308873 .
I am playing white in the above game. The winner makes the last mistake here, as always.
Black's second move seems intimidating. The bishop on b4 pins my d4 pawn. I don't know what the best defense to this is, so I move my knight and hope to quietly slip my bishop in d2 as in move 5. (I don't want the bishop to take my knight and destroy my pawn structure).
Normal development follows till move 9. White's 9. o-o is weakening. Black could have played 9. .. Bxc3, and after that 10 .. Bxe2. To defend that white should have played 9. Nd5 forking the Queen and the bishop.
Black's Queen remains on the open e-file for too long for white to play tactics such as 11. Bxa6 . Black's move 16 is also restricting. Qf5 would be better since it maintains pressure on the d4 square while providing the Queen room to move. Similarly white 17. Qe1 should have been Qe2, since it backs both the white knight and bishop.
A better move for white instead of 18. d5 would be Bd5.
Now 24. Ne5 leaves black with little choice. The only move to protect a mate would be Qf5 or Qg5. Both of which is countered by g4.
Occasionally I look at famous games. My amateur chess expert has advised me to look at the games of Paul Morphy first. I started looking at the games but then I realized that although improving is only possible when you analyze games, it is far more rewarding and easier to analyze your own games. I played this interesting chess game recently. I am going to analyze my own and my opponent's mistakes from the principles I have gathered. Please post improvements/suggestions in comments.
Also since its turning out to be very difficult to include a dynamic chess board on blogger, I am just including the link to the game here : game?id=561308873 .
I am playing white in the above game. The winner makes the last mistake here, as always.
Black's second move seems intimidating. The bishop on b4 pins my d4 pawn. I don't know what the best defense to this is, so I move my knight and hope to quietly slip my bishop in d2 as in move 5. (I don't want the bishop to take my knight and destroy my pawn structure).
Normal development follows till move 9. White's 9. o-o is weakening. Black could have played 9. .. Bxc3, and after that 10 .. Bxe2. To defend that white should have played 9. Nd5 forking the Queen and the bishop.
Black's Queen remains on the open e-file for too long for white to play tactics such as 11. Bxa6 . Black's move 16 is also restricting. Qf5 would be better since it maintains pressure on the d4 square while providing the Queen room to move. Similarly white 17. Qe1 should have been Qe2, since it backs both the white knight and bishop.
A better move for white instead of 18. d5 would be Bd5.
Now 24. Ne5 leaves black with little choice. The only move to protect a mate would be Qf5 or Qg5. Both of which is countered by g4.
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