Analysis of Game with Endgame Tactics

I played Stockfish AI level 1, where I think I made some pretty good moves. Was there a faster mate or a very strong threat? Tell me, and next time I'll be on the lookout for these powerful moves.

I think my strongest move was somewhere in the endgame when I already had a huge advantage in material (eight pawns, or a rook and bishop).

The move was 48. Ra7+. I learned this from the Lichess lessons - because it is a discovered check, my rook can move anywhere it wants with no problem. I attacked the enemy rook, winning it while mating in the next move.

Any advice for moves in the opening are welcome! Be sure to point out any blunders!

For a faster mate: Instead of 43.f4 you had 43.Rfg7+ Kf8 44.Rg8#

:)

Good work spotting 48.Ra7+ , that's a nice tactic!

Just keep playing games and find something to improve with every game, and you'll get better in no time!

@DivineMoves (#2)

Thanks, I missed that mate completely!

48. Ra7+

I was searching for something to eliminate the rook, so I didn't see that I had a faster mate without eliminating the rook.

The opening was nicely played by you, although slightly strange to put the a rook on e1 as normally the a rook will go to the d file and the f rook will go to the e file.

As you probably realise 19. Bh7+ was a bit pointless, it was a check for the sake of a check. Much better was something like 19. f4, you have a lot of his pressure on his kingside already so try to get to the king!

28. dxe6 wins a pawn. Your bishop is defended so don't take his bishop giving him the oppurtunity to defend his pawn his king.

33. Rf3 pins his bishop against his king therefore winning it. Just taking the bishop straight away allows him to simply recapture.

Also you had 39. Rxh6+ Kg8 40. Be6+ Rf7 41. Rxf7 winning his rook.

As DivineMoves pointed out you could have played 43.Rfg7+ Kf8 44.Rg8# or even 44.Rfg7+ Kf8 45.Rg8# (as your bishop is attacked on move 44. the double check is important). However you could have also played 43. Rd7+ (Or Ra7+, Rb7+, Rc7+) Kf8 44. Rh8#.

Overall you played pretty well, there were just a few tactical things you could have spotted and maybe you need a bit more of a killer instinct when all your pieces are pointing at his king. A common idea to remember is pushing your pawns towards your opponents king in order to break up their king's defences.

Note that on move 43 Ra7+ Rb7+ Rc7+ Rd7+ Rfg7+ all mate in two. By checking the king and forcing it away from g8 you had Rh8# threats. I recommend you play some rated games. Playing real people is more fun than playing the computer.

@Checkmatealot (#4)

Thanks for the advice, I'm trying to improve my chess. However, most of the time my opponent is the one who is trying to push pawns and weaken me.



I think I did a pretty good job of attacking here, I found a king and knight fork after Stockfish let me drop a knight behind the attacking lines. After some time there it appeared there were some Desperado captures.

In the end though, my two rooks really dominated the king.

Sorry for the slow reply.

This game overall was pretty good, especially the quick development in the opening.

However a few improvements:

12. dxc6 bxc6 Qxd6 wins a pawn as 12... Qxc6 is met by Bb5 pinning the queen against the king.

13. Re1 and 14. Qe3 both blunder your e pawn (on move 14. he can exchange queens and then take your e pawn).

20. Ra1 does nothing, it just undevelops your rook off a good file.

26. Rb1 almost blunders your bishop as he can play Bxa3 and then your bishop is pinned against your rook and you can't take back. You have to find Nc7+ and then Nb5 in order to save your bishop.

28. Ng8+ just blunders your knight after Rxg8. Much better was just retreating the knight to d5.

After he blundered by not taking your knight the game was over and you checkmated him well.

Again just working on your tactics would help you a great deal to cut down on small mistakes like these but overall well played.

@Checkmatealot (#7)

Yes, I'm trying to make less blunders.

20. Ra1 was to help push pawns.

28. Ng8+ I did not play this move. My 28th move was Bxf6+

14. Qe3 Not really. 3 attackers vs 3 defenders. The queen, which was a defender, was removed, but now the rook can protect the pawn. No?

Your feedback is appreciated.

28. Bxf6+ is from the other game.

And on 14. Qe3 it's not the d pawn I'm talking about (which has 3 attackers and 3 defenders) but the e pawn which has 2 attackers and 1 defender (the knight on c3).

@Checkmatealot (#9)

lol but Qe3 makes it 2 attackers and 2 defenders, no? The queen can be a defender...