Great game, very interesting and thanks for the explanations after the moves, revealed a lot to me that otherwise I would not of seen.

    Thanks for sharing:-)

It was a 15 min (each) game, with no added time.

what was time? was it a long game or blitz or what?

Thanks to GenericZebra for taking the time and effort to examine the game carefully.

The point you have raised is highly commendable from a purely principle-oriented point of view, but has a few technical

faults in the particular situation from the game above.

I'm not too sure as to what 12.N2d5 means (do you mean 12. Nbd5?). Either way, I shall presume it is a Knight move to d5. Moving the c Knight would abandon the defence of the important e center pawn, while moving the b6 Knight has no such obvious drawback; however, it, too, brings a few problems:

Looking through the variations above, the main theme is that of the 'good' and 'bad' Bishops. While the c8 Bishop is undeveloped, it has potential to be a valuable piece. In the actual game, thanks to the exchange on c8, White gains the two Bishops, which in turn did not allow Black's eventual f5 to do him any good. The major piece on the half-open c file did little to influence the game, mainly because in the position above, White's main weakness was the position of his King and not his Queenside.

Thank you for commenting on the game, and hope you'll be as interested in my future blogs!

A few notes, if you are interested, otherwise feel free to disregard.

12. Nxc8 is easily your weakest move of the game, including 10.Be3.  I have two reasons for saying this.  First, you are inviting your opponent to put a major piece on the open c file, which is exactly what they would love to do.  Normaly they would have to move the bishop first, but you are saving them a move here.  Second, I counted 7(!) moves with your king's knight ending with you trading it off for an undeveloped bishop, fine from a niaeve material point of view, but terrible from a chess thinking point of view.  You had invested a lot of time improving that knight by moving up the board to a good square.  Why trade off the strong points of your position.  12.N2d5 seems much stronger.  You are taking advantage of your opponents weak square on d5.

I hope you don't think I'm overly critical.  I think you played a good game.  This just seems like the bigest point you could improve on, so I thought I'd share that with you.  Congrats on your win!

You're quite right , as ScY has also pointed out - in the game, I could've won a pawn on move ten.

You could've won a pawn on move 10, no?

10. Bf6! gf6

11. Nd5

Threatening Ne7+, and black cannot move his bishop nor defend the d pawn.

Whipster I'd like to play you live...if u could add me as friend then ill know when ur on...u seem good but i think i have a chance:)

Thanks to ScY for pointing out what was wrong with the tenth move. I only realised after the game that I'd missed the intermezzo that leads to the straightforward winning of a pawn - hence the !? awarded to the move.

Thank you!

This was a very enjoyable game to watch.

No, I posted it because it was a good live game that I played - I normally make a lot of mistakes in live play.

u only posted it cause u finally won :D

It was interesting. thanks

Solid game. Thanks