[Event "Let's Play!"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.04.15"] [White "opponent2"] [Black "genghisjshn"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1151"] [BlackElo "1056"] [ECO "A00"] [Opening "Van Kruijs"] {Starting out against a higher rated opponent that I've never played before. I'm black. I'm already assuming that I'll lose.} 1.e3 e5 {I still know very little of openings and defenses. I don't usually see e3, but I responded with e5 anyway.} 2.Nf3 e4 {I decide to push forward. I've already broken a general guideline for openings, "Don't move the same piece twice!" At this point I have one pawn advanced, and he has a pawn and a knight developed.} 3.Nd4 d5 {I decide to protect the pawn on e4. Notice that the e & d pawns are advanced. I've reviewed several of my games and realized that these are often the only two pawns I move for an entire game. Probably not a good thing.} 4.d3 Nf6 {Building up the defense for the e4 pawn. Getting a knight into the mix.} 5.dxe4 Nxe4 {I decide to take with the knight instead of the pawn. The knight has more reach.} 6.Bb5+ {This didn't really throw me. I knew I could defend and he'd have to move his bishop back.} Bd7 7.Bd3 Qf6 {I realize with my knight sitting on e4, that I could go for a quick checkmate and end the game early if I can pull of queen to f2. That's be mate, if my opponent doesn't see it...I figure he will but why not go for the win early? _MARK:f6->f2!_} 8.O-O {Whether he saw it or not, he castles and the f2 attack isn't pointless.} Bd6 {Here I decide to go for another queen, check mate attack. My moving the bishop to d6, I can protect my queen if I can get her to h2. That'd be checkmate. This assumes of course that my opponent will play into my hand. It's an obvious attack, so I doubt it will work but it forces my opponent to spend time defending against it. _MARK:d6->h2!,f6->h4!,h4->h2!_} 9.Bxe4 Qh6 {Almost there! Of course, if he moves pawn to h3, then no go. _MARK:h2->h3?_} 10.h3 {He does, now that attack is thwarted. _MARK:h3?_} Bxh3 {Here I decide to go for it anyway. I'm going to sacrifce a bishp for a pawn to clear out the pieces protected the white king and keep my queen at bay.} 11.gxh3 Qxh3 12.f4 {He definitely knows what I'm trying to do. This prevents me going for the win, since my bishop can't protect my queen for a check mate. Also, the pawn on e3 is protected the pawn on f4. _MARK:f4?,d6->h2!,e3->f4?_} dxe4 {Might was well take the hanging bishop since it's just sitting there.} 13.Qe2 {He has to bring the queen out now to fight off my queen. I assume he's hoping for a queen exchange of some kind to end my attack.} g5 {Hoping to get that pawn out of the way on f4, somehow. Of course it wouldn't have mattered since his queen will take mine if I go for queen to h2. _MARK:f4,h2?,h3->h2!,e2->h2?_} 14.Nc3 gxf4 {He's getting more pieces developed. I take a pawn on f4 just to get rid of it. If he retakes with his pawn then at least the knight on d4 won't be protected anymore.} 15.exf4 Nc6 {I need to get my knight into the game. Computer analysis pointed out this blunder. I should have moved my rook to g8 for check. I didn't see this. _MARK:h8->g8!_} 16.Qxe4+ {Crap, I didn't see that either. Now I'm in check. _MARK:e4->e8?_} Be7 {Easy enough to block check, but know my dark squared bishop is pinned. Maybe I'll take his knight next so that his queen will move off and un pin my bishop... Computer analysis pointed out that I should have just moved my king. I wanted to be able to castle later, but yeah, the computer was right. Would kept my bishop free of the pin. _MARK:c6->d4!,e4->d4?_} 17.Nxc6 {Nope! He's gonna take my knight!} Qg3+ {I decide to go king hunting.} 18.Kh1 Qh4+ 19.Kg1 Rg8+ {I feel like at this point I have him. I also think that if I had better end game knoweldeged, I could have brought this to a close quickly.} 20.Qg2 {His only move his queen to g2. Then I have to decide if I want to take the queen for my rook.} Bc5+ {I decided to bring my dark squared bishop to c5, just to see how he'd defend. I can always go back to rook to g2 and take then queen if I don't like what I see, since his queen is pinned.} 21.Be3 {He moves the bishop to block check. He could have done knight to d4 as well, but I imagine he wanted to keep it on my end of the board. He's blocking check which is making it harder to get my other rook into the game. Computer analysis showed that we both completely botched our 21st move. I have so much to learn about chess.} Rxg2+ {His only move is king takes rook...} 22.Kxg2 Bxe3 {Which allows me to take the hanging bishop. So that's 5 points lost in the rook, but he lost 9 points for the queen and 3 for the bishop, so the exchange is 7 points in my favor, not bad.} 23.Rh1 Qf2+ {I'm not sure how to do this yet. At this point I think I need my rook, because I'm not sure how to checkmate him with just bishop and a queen. I also have to make sure I don't do something dumb and get a piece picked off my one of his knights. Also, that dang rook on a1 hasn't moved, but it protects his rook on h1.} 24.Kh3 Qf3+ {Just chasing the king. Keeping him in check and trying to make sure I don't blunder. I don't have a plan yet.} 25.Kh2 {Computer analysis showed several blunders on my opponents part at this stage of the game. He's got this rook just sitting on a1. Could have really caused some problems if he'd brought it over. I never even considered it. It was way over there and I just didn't think about it. Lucky for me my oppnent didn't either.} bxc6 {I figure I have a little breathing space now so I take his knight. I want to be able to castle to get my rook in the game and get my king out of the center.} 26.Rhf1 Bxf4+ {But I realize I don't need to now. I have a plan. This move leaves him with only one option. He can't take my queen because his king is in check. He has only one move. _MARK:h2->g1?_} 27.Kg1 Qg3+ {This puts him in check again, leaving him with only one move. _MARK:g1->h1?_} 28.Kh1 Qh2# {And that gets us to check mate, using the queen and the dark squared bishop like I'd planned earlier. Just had to do a lot of dancing around to get to this point. _MARK:f4->h2!,h2->h1!_} 0-1

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