Annotated Chess Game 15094770

So here I’ve managed to block your black bishop away from the left side of the board and jeep your knight sidelined too. Knights are very weak when out on the edge. They only cover half the squares that they could if they are in the middle.

Whilst it’s good aggression from your pawn, I can still put my knight on the HOLE at d5. (No pawns can attack my knight there. So now I force a king move which means you cannot now castle, which is a win for me.

The problem with that pawn is that it’s protected by the most valuable piece on the board, and so I know you are not going to take back. Also I have now created an outpost for my bishop (protected by my pawn and threatening a pawn near your king. Admittedly you can still threaten it with your f7 pawn, so it’s not perfect for me.

I wonder if pushing your f7 pawn to dislodge my bishop would have been better.

Good move ! Pinning my knight against my queen

Ahhh. NOW it comes ! Good.

Now your knight is only protected once but I have 2 attacks on it.

Courageous sacrifice. I can see the plan to get your queen over to threaten the king on the g file.

Just a boob. Not looking far enough away from it on the board to see the bishop threat.

Making good use of that pawn the offers the ‘outpost’

Need to always double check ALL the new lines opened by one move that appears to be the main purpose, especially if it looks like their mistake or deliberate sacrifice. The queen reveal definitely lost you this match, although I’d say my forward position and your no castle status was the structural weakness that caused your demise.