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At move 47, the game could be about equal, maybe even black has an advantage. If you play 47. ... Nd5 then you are supporting your weakest pawn and you are threating to play Nc2 soon.
47. ... Kf6 allowed your opponent to fork your king and pawn. This created a passed pawn, which is very dangerous in the engame.
After 22. ... Bxa1 you have a material advantage, but the location of your king is quite bad. Black's king will never find a safe home as long as white's queen and rooks are around.
25.... kd7 you don't have to castle. this move would have connected your rooks while hiding your king behind the safest place in chess: two opposing pawn chains head to head. from there you could play rc-g8 and done a pawn storm on his king. That would have shown him!
also playing 27... kng7 would have connected your rooks and protected your king. You were really okay until you tried to force the queen trade.
Dec 6, 2007
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Your general mistake is that you played on the wrong side of the board. 14...f5! begins your assault. Keep driving home those f, g and h pawns. You should've castled queenside so your rook comes into play.
Well white passed up three mates that i can see, and while you didnt play a perfect game i think he missed alot more. Let me first say, the castle was horrid, the point of a castle is to protect your king, doubling the rooks is just a bonus. Kd7 accomplishes both of those. The placement of your white bishop wasn't ideal, and then you gave him ample opportunity to trap it.
35... Take the rook... please. after you didnt he missed a ton of mating opportunities.
47. always look out for forks, knights are usually worthless in the endgame, unless you step into forks.
52. Kd4 at least draws, and judging on your opponents endgame, might win, always take the chance to control a queening square with your king
The one thing that i really like that you did was the pawnstorm, that needed to continue, and then his king is horribly exposed instead of yours.
really, I think your worst moves probably weren't capitalized on, but i think the lessons in this game are as such: watch out for forks, especially wiht knights, its really all that they are good for; watch out for forced mates, these are common when your king placement is bad; and lastly a good pawnstorm will never lose a game, and will more often then not win one, always try to expose your opponent's king.
Hope I helped
Stranger
13. either d4 or Re1 looked good to me. Both moves either force him to trade (bad for him) or end up defending his e pawn, losing time and weakening his queenside.
16. d5 I might begin a sacrificial series of moves to wind up good on position, dominating the mddle with my queen, possibly trapping black's queen to his king with Re1 sometime. Else white could decline and go 16...g4? (c5xb4 isn't good. opens rook and after 18...Bd7, your paws can attack with your rook his queenside.) or possibly 16...F5 thinking of castling queenside soon. At this point, black looks in better shape.
thanks for your comments and suggestions
"knights are usually worthless in the endgame, unless you step into forks."
Before getting sucked into this potentially misleading advice, check out some pretty sweet knight endings:
http://likesforests.blogspot.com/search/label/knight%20endgames
http://thebackrank.blogspot.com/2006/08/remarkable-endgame-from-cts.html
Indeed, I recently watched a commentary from an IM on a capablanca game where a Knight + Rook outmatched a Bishop + Rook with pawns on BOTH sides of the board. Traditionally bishops are advantageous over knights with pawns on both sides of the board due to their mobility. But in the hands of the right player, it is definitely situational.
I said knights are USUALLY worthless in the endgame, and indeed a knight to a bishop is USUALLY a lost game, unless there isn't a lot of space to cover which is USUALLY not the case, its a situational type of thing , but once again USUALLY it is the case, sorry if the advice was misleading, that wasn't the intention