I'm certainly no expert . . .
but why 3.nd2?
If making the effort to defend the e pawn, why not nc3?
That protects the e pawn and doesn't stifle the king bishop.
Maybe you have a reason that I'm not seeing or thinking of . . .
-Ted
Can someone tell me what I did wrong/right in this match?
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no idea just seemed like a good idea at the time.
Anyone else with any thoughts?
Well, among other things (too many moves with the same pieces and the queen, at the begining of the game)...
16.Bh6 is useless, 16...Qf6 and the bishop as to return to c1 because of the Qxb2 threat.
17.Qd4 is bad because with 17...e5 you end up gaining nothing
18.dxe6 is interesting but... again bad, i´m afraid: 18...Be7 and you again end up with nothing (19.Qxd8, Rxd8)
19.e7+ was, obvsiouly, a good move!
A few moves seemed strange, but nothing disastrous:
the Nd2 move (why so passive with the knight?), 4.Bc4 is also strange, because it's already biting on granite (the e6-f7 pawn chain).
6.Ba4 is the first big error. Bd3 was needed. Because black could have played 6...b5(as played) 7.Bb3 dxe4 and you lose a center pawn. You can't take back because 8.Nxe4 c5 and either the d4 knight or b3 bishop are gone...
After 7...a5, you were given a chance to free yourself a bit with 8.a4.
10.Qg4 is a big mistake. Bringing out the queen early in the game is usually bad... So if nothing specific was there...bad.
Black has many ways to exploit this (10...dxe4 is what I like best, since white can't take 11.Nxe4 f5).
What black played should have given him a great position, but he gave you some chances with 11...Nf6. The simple 11...Bxd5 seems much better. Actually you are probably losing if he plays that.
And then he ignores that pawn again (12...Nxd5 is good) and plays 12...Bd6.
Senseless.
15...Bxd5 is still ok for black, but 15...b4 that was played is...well...seems horrible.
16.Bh6 looks like a cute move but it should lose the game.
16...Qf6 seems to refute it, to me. both the bishop and b2 are threatened, and in the meantime, the mate threat is defended.
Of course, after he makes that mistake, the game just deteriorates for him.
Nice win!
I am still very new to learning how to play the game correctly so could someone provide some analysis and maybe some annotations to what I did wrong and right in this game?