my first training game
my first game was after a few months of training. it was with a friend of mine . a god chess player. i played here with the white pieces
1. c4 e5
the English opening
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 d6
4. d5 Nb4
5. Bd2 Na6
here i missed the tactic -Qa4( winning a piece and the game instantly)
6. b4 c5
an inaccuracy , it gave me a good opportunity to lock the center, i closed it with tempo( my opponent now needed to move his knight again . closing the center when you have more space is considered good.
7. b5 Nc7
8. e4 Nf6
9. Nc3 Bg4
10. Be2 b6
11. h3 Bxf3
12. Bxf3 Be7
13. Ne2 a6
my idea here - bringing the knight back to e2 was to occupy the f5 square (by going Ne2-g3-f5) . of course that black can play g6 and kick my knight out of there, but this will cause weakening his kingside dark squares and with h4-h5 I can start attacking his kingside.
14. a4 axb5
15. axb5 O-O
16. Ng3 Rxa1
17. Qxa1 Qa8
18. Qxa8 Rxa8
here i made a positional mistake, instead of keeping the tension in the open file i gave my opponent the open file. getting control over the open file is one of the endgame principles
19. Nf5 Ra4
my opponent did not notice his bishop was hanging
20. Nxe7+ Kf8
21. Nc8 Rxc4
my move - attacking black`s main weaknesses(b6 and d6)
22. Nxd6
my opponent surrendered. devastated from the blunder