This is a correspondence game, but contains many blunders by both sides. How much time did you spend on your moves?
1 g4 is a viable opening with two ideas:
A) developing the Bishop to g2 to exert pressure on the centre squares e4 and d5
B) making the black move Nf6 difficult by kicking the knight with g5.
This being said 3 Bh3 is illogical: the bishop does nothing useful there. Either 3 h3 or 3 g5 was right.
5 gxh5 weakens your king, better g5 to keep the files closed.
7 Bg5 leads to nothing: you only help him with a pawn avalanche. Better Nc3: develop knights before bishops.
8 Lh4 loses a piece, you should have retreated the bishop to d2. After that you could have resigned especially in a correspondence game.
Your opponent then gives you back not one but two pieces so the game becomes roughly even with 3 pawns for a knight.
After more gross errors from both sides we see an interesting rook ending by move 36. Also this was mishandled by both sides until black simplifies to a won pawn ending on move 48.
Advice: spend more thought on your moves at the beginning of the game.
1 g4 is a viable opening with two ideas:
A) developing the Bishop to g2 to exert pressure on the centre squares e4 and d5
B) making the black move Nf6 difficult by kicking the knight with g5.
This being said 3 Bh3 is illogical: the bishop does nothing useful there. Either 3 h3 or 3 g5 was right.
5 gxh5 weakens your king, better g5 to keep the files closed.
7 Bg5 leads to nothing: you only help him with a pawn avalanche. Better Nc3: develop knights before bishops.
8 Lh4 loses a piece, you should have retreated the bishop to d2. After that you could have resigned especially in a correspondence game.
Your opponent then gives you back not one but two pieces so the game becomes roughly even with 3 pawns for a knight.
After more gross errors from both sides we see an interesting rook ending by move 36. Also this was mishandled by both sides until black simplifies to a won pawn ending on move 48.
Advice: spend more thought on your moves at the beginning of the game.
thanks @tpr
Problem: too many blunders.
Solution: spend more time thinking before you move.
Tip: focus hard on not blundering. Make 'not blundering' a priority.
Solution: spend more time thinking before you move.
Tip: focus hard on not blundering. Make 'not blundering' a priority.
damn I knew hou yi fan's 1.g4 would corrupt a whole generation :)
As far as the improvement goes just play more games, nothing to talk about yet when pieces fly right and left with zero purpose
As far as the improvement goes just play more games, nothing to talk about yet when pieces fly right and left with zero purpose
@MorningCoffee Should I use e4 or the usual Knight opening?
Also I had never seen anyone play Bg6, who is yl?
Also I had never seen anyone play Bg6, who is yl?
@lurarose thank you for the analysis, this makes 5 hours in training from one game
There is nothing wrong with 1 g4. I have seen international master Michael Basman win a 9 round open tournament 2h/40 moves opening 1 g4 in each of his games, also against grandmasters.
With black he defended 1...h6 and 2...g5 in all his games.
With black he defended 1...h6 and 2...g5 in all his games.
I know you will hate me, but TACTICS is the 1. thing you need to work on! Don't play the Grob (1.g4), at least not yet. Also, can you describe your thought process while choosing a move?
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