Annotated Chess Game 15092109

Have you seen this opening somewhere before ? I don’t like it.

Unless you had plans to Castle on your Queenside then this is a terrible move. You have destroyed your Kingside castelling safety for no good reason.

This was a really bad move too. You removed the support for your night which was pinned to your king. This resulted in me being able to check you which means you now cannot castle on the Queen side

And that pawn on square E4 was a lifesaver as it’s prongs point through your defences and give me somewhere that I can rest while covered. That’s why you then lost your rook.

I am so much up in material at this point I am happy to swap of Queens. This is a standard practice when you have a large material advantage.

Maybe going right back to the position where I will exchange was not the best plan either.

Always check for tricky forks with knights especially when it is a high value piece like king queen or rook

I was going to lose this knight almost whatever I did so given I am well up on material I thought I’d at least take one of your pawns with me. It also splits those two white pawns and gives you a bad position pawn structure. My two black pawns in line on column E are also bad pawn structure BTW

This is a great combination to look out for a pawn that has no other opposing pawns that can take it can act as an outpost for something like the knight or Bishop. Also by moving the knight I am revealing a pin against your king with your black bishop. This renders your Bishop of low value while in that condition