Playing in Chess.Com Again
Hello chess to all fans! I haven't played in chess.com for a long time. I preferred lichess because of their unlimited puzzles and faster UI. Chess.com's interface feels slower and laggy that causes me more losses on time since I play three minute blitz games. On the plus side, chess.com has more entertaining features that I like. I find it entertaining to watch the game review with voice commentaries. Some of the comments may be simple but I also appreciate that it shows my accuracy. For example, I have 92.4% accuracy in the game above against my opponent's 78.8% accuracy. It also shows the best moves that I found in the game.
The game started with 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 c6 3. e3 Nd7
Strange decision by my opponent locking his light squared Bishop. Better was Nf6 or Bf5. 4. Nf3 g6
The move g6 removes one of my attacking ideas after Bd3 and Qc2. 5. c3 Bg7 6. Be2 Ngf6 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. h3
Game review likes my h3 move. But as I was reviewing the game I like h4 more, threatening an attack on Black's castled King. 8. ...Re8 9. a4 Ne4 10. O-O
I agree with Game review in its assessment. Nxe4 dxe4 Nd2 was a better continuation. 10. ...Nxd2 11. Qxd2 Nf6
Black missed his chance to equalize with e5. 12. Ne5 Ne4 13. Qc2 Bf5 14. Bd3 e6
The Bishop on f5 looks trapped. f3 followed by e4 looks good in this position. 15. f3 Nd6 16. e4 dxe4
A blunder that gave away the Bishop. Better as suggested by Game review was f6. 17. fxe4 Bxh3
I won a piece. Now I have to avoid making mistakes and convert to win. 18. gxh3 f6 19. Nf3 g5 20. Bg3 Nf7 21. Rae1 Nh6 22. Nh2 Qd7 23. Qg2
Game review liked my move here. The purpose was merely to protect the h3 pawn from the opponent's Queen on d7. 23. ...Rf8 24. Bc4 Kh8 25. Kh1 a6 26. Ng4
Opening the h-file looks good in this position for a possible attack on h7. 26. ...Nxg4 27. hxg4 b5 28. Bb3 Rf7 29. e5 fxe5 30. Bxe5 Rxf1+ 31. Rxf1 Bxe5 32. dxe5
The next moves will be easy to find at this point. The Queen goes to h5 targeting f7 and h7 squares. The Bishop goes to c2 eyeing h7 and the Rook will go to f7 supported by the Queen on h5. 32. ...Kg7 33. Rf6 Rf8 34. Qf2 bxa4 35. Rxf8 axb3 36. Qf6# 1-0
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