Game Against Chess.com Maximum Bot Using Turbo Eval #2

As I am writing this, it is nearly midnight where I am, so I will keep this article nice and simple. The game is below:

I was so close! In the post game analysis, I had an accuracy of 80% while the computer played with 88%, which makes me somewhat confused. I had 6 inaccuracies, 2 mistakes, and 3 blunders. . . so yeah, this game was all over the place.

I think that my general studying of openings has been massively helping me, as this game, I got through the first 17 moves before I made any real mistakes. By this time, I was well within the middlegame, and so naturally, that's where things start to fall apart. But still, every little victory counts on the way to improvement. Being able to get out of the opening well, is a very welcome change for me, considering some of the other games I have played.

Anyway, now I have to talk about the bad stuff I did. . . ahem:

On move 17, I played the move Nde2. This was the move I played so that I could continue with my next few moves that I thought were good, but later realized, were somewhat troublesome for me. Black played Rc8, and then I played e5, thinking that I was just winning an exchange. Well, to be fair, I did win an exchange, it just came with some caveats.

Bxa8 on move is considered a mistake, and on move 20, I sat for a long time trying to think of what to do, as I had now started to realize that I was in some serious danger. Some variations that I was slowly realizing are shown below:

Anyway, I did play the right move, and the computer played one good move, which I correctly defended, and then the computer retreated it's rook, giving up nearly all the tension in the position, which makes me think that even the 3200 chess.com bot is making mistakes based on programing.

And the big fish of all the errors in this game, on move 34, I had a chance to completely seize the game, and I would have gone ahead and won the game completely if I had simply taken the queen -- which I know I would win because I played through the rest of the game from that position, but it doesn't count because I didn't play correctly in the real game. In the game, I thought that the queen trade would create a large amount of weaknesses in my position, mainly on b2 and f2, but the thing I must have forgot was that they were always there. Plus, his biggest attacker would be gone, so I don't have to worry about checkmate anytime soon. I think I had a moment of impatience, and I wanted to keep my queen to possibly attack his king, despite it being surrounded by pawns and perfectly safe. Oh well.

After that, the computer didn't give me any other chances, and it simply got closer and closer to my king, until I was squashed.

What Can I Learn?

1. My opening play is much better, so I should continue to train it the way I have, because that was a victory for me.
2. I should understand that if I am deciding between going into an endgame or not, if I have a passed pawn on the side of the board, that is already defended by my rook from behind, AND I am up the exchange, the endgame is very likely to be a good decision for me. No need to get fancy.

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