noob game, several mistakes by both sides I think. I am white.
[Event "ChessCube Game"]
[Site "www.chesscube.com"]
[Date "2011.08.28"]
[Round "-"]
[White "aftersea113@chesscube.com"]
[Black "ballardi@chesscube.com"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1535"]
[BlackElo "1593"]
[ECO "C40"]
[Time "21:56:24"]
[TimeControl "900"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Qf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. d3 h6 5. Be2 Be7 6. O-O d6 7. d4 exd4 8. Nxd4 Qg6 9. Bh5 Qf6 10. Be3 Qe5 11. Qe2 Nf6 12. Bf3 O-O 13. Rad1 a6 14. a4 c5 15. Nf5 Bxf5 16. exf5 Qxf5 17. Bxb7 Ra7 18. Bd5 Nbd7 19. h3 Nb6 20. Bb3 Ne4 21. Qd3 c4 22. Qxe4 Qxe4 23. Nxe4 Rb7 24. Bxb6 Rxb6 25. Bxc4 Rxb2 26. c3 Rb6 27. Rb1 Rfb8 28. Rxb6 Rxb6 29. a5 Rc6 30. Bd5 Rc7 31. c4 Kf8 32. Rb1 Rc8 33. Rb6 f5 34. Nxd6 Bxd6 35. Rxd6 Re8 36. Kf1 h5 37. Re6 Rxe6 38. Bxe6 g6 39. c5 Ke7 40. Bc8 Kd8 41. Bxa6 Kc7 42. Ke2 Kc6 43. Kf3 Kxc5 44. Be2 Kc6 45. a6 Kb6 46. Ke3 Ka7 47. Kd4 Kb6 48. Ke5 h4 49. Kf6 f4 50. Kxg6 1-0
I'm going to analyze/comment on it, and if you see anything else, let me know! I've been doing a ton of tactics on CT lately, and I think it's helping.
Not really sure what the hell he's doing here, and if I had a way to put immediate pressure on his queen, I would. A better continuation might be 3. d4 exd4, 4. Bg5, possibly gaining initiative and regaining the pawn.
I think this is a mistake, as I realized later that d4 is better and would have allowed my development to happen faster, and it also hems in my light squared bishop.
Pressuring the black queen, just to see what he does, and gets my bishop more active. Possibly will have to retreat later, but not worried right now.
Prevents any ...b5 nonsense.
Will be followed up with 15. Rxd5 if he takes with the knight; also puts pressure on f7.
g4 looks like a nice spot for the black knight, so let's just stop that right now.
Rather than swap knights, I pin the knight with my queen, planning 22. Qxe4. Unfortunately, I didn't see that I just allowed my queen and bishop to be forked.
Forks my queen and bishop. Unfortunately for my opponent, this lets my bishop on e3 take the undefended knight on b6. I'm confident I can come out ahead if I play the next couple moves correctly.
My opponent realizes his mistake, and now I come out ahead. Time to simplify.
The rest of the game is pretty boring, but if my endgame skills were any better I probably could have forced him to resign faster. As it was, he ran out of time and I won.