Good execution.  The theme of the game is 'piling on pinned pieces'.  Don't forget to recognize the themes of your collected games, so you'll know where your strength lies and what areas you need to keep working on.  Keep playing!

Mr. 123karpov, kindly read the content of the post... it was black who won in the game.... white resigned. Just to clear-up your wrong impression of the game result.

Thanks for posting.  Salamat kabayan....

hahah... bat nagresign na ung black?.. kalokohan.. rook h6-h8..

Hey Uncle Jess... thanks a lot. I've been looking you up in almost all chess site and I'm happy and excited to finally find you in here. WELCOME TO CHESS.COM.

looking forward for that game.

I am surprised to see you on the Internet.  Well, I am happy to know that you enjoy playing chess.  This is your uncle Jess (Sarmiento), to improve your game, try to borrow a chess book titled anthology of chess combinations...in no time you will play like a master.  If you can't find it....do not tell anybody since i am broke, i will send you some chess books....good luck.....i just sign-in as a member...maybe you can play with me sometime.... take care.   You have a decent game; however, if I have time, I will review your games....I know a Sr. Master here, and I will have him analyze your games.... His name is Alfredo Base, he is a very strong player and beat some Russian Grandmaster and a lot of IMs in 1996 here... 

 

why did white resign when he was ahead a queen?

Hey! That is me losing as white!  It was a good game.  I would really like it if someone could pinpoint where I might have gone wrong.  I have 2 suggestions (please comment):

10. Qc2? - I was thinking that protecting the e-pawn and getting a file open for my rook was good, but perhaps I should have played 10. h3  because as you can see, a few moves later, the knight jumps there and ultimately kills off my dark bishop and THEN his queen and dark bishop move in and put some serious pressure on f2.

The only other move I can think of that may have been poor is:

13. Bxg4?  I didnt think I had other option since he had pressure on h2 and f2.  My central knight was essentially pinned because of this, and if I pushed pawns to scare away his knight, my kingside looked real weak.

 

Oh well.

 T'was a good game. I certainly didn't go into it thinking "this guy is easy" I did that our first game and almost lost. This time around I was paranoid.

Thanks Herman I appreciate it. I've been trying for several hours just to make this work... lol, had a hard time posting this game... only to find out I was doing the wrong thing....ha..ha..ha..  seems I'm into old age already!

Hello Michael,

Congratulations ! A very, very nice game you won here, let us try seriously to improve our chessplaying, you're in the good direction !Cheers,

Herman