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Everyone always shows their best games.I'm sick of all that good chess 🙂
One move blunders are welcome but even better is a series of poor decisions.

Here's 2 of mine.
kristjan-torten Game 8498317
Everything's fine 'till around move 15 where I show a failure to understand the position,defend poor and end with a powerful blunder.
Credit to kristjan who understood things far better.

hey, evry nice idea for a thread. i will post some bad game, once i find time. very instructive when annotations are involved...

This game (Game 523392) is old and I don't remember the actual reasoning behind my moves. Looks funny though.

I was playing at work, and had my screen shrunk down so I couldn't get caught; thus, I couldn't see the whole board at once. This mistake caused my ranking to go down severly. Well, serves me right for playing games at work.

This is me as black getting destroyed thanks to avoiding development.

Game 2809831

Originally posted by VelvetEars
This is me as black getting destroyed thanks to avoiding development.

[pgn]
[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "http://www.timeforchess.com"]
[Date "2009.11.09"]
[EndDate "2009.12.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "National Master Dale"]
[Black "VelvetEars"]
[WhiteRating "1789"]
[BlackRating "1821"]
[WhiteElo "1789"]
[BlackElo "1821"]
[Result "1-0"]
[GameId but for the sake of completeness...} 20. Pc7 Ke7 21. Pc8=N 1-0 [/pgn]

Originally posted by untergang
Game 2809831

Yeah, that was bad. To sum up my position at the end: King: exposed; rooks: going nowhere; minor pieces: unco-ordinated (the w-squared bishop should get particular mention here); pawns: useless.

Originally posted by vivify
Never thought I'd actually see that one rare time where it's better to promote to a knight, in a real game.

Blown away in 16 moves 🙂 I feel Nd4 was a bad move.


Game 8490471

Got mated in 13 moves, a new record for me in correspondence chess!

That 3...Qe7 in the Latvian is now in the theorectical dustbin.
I knew that when I got scudded in 15 or 16 moves with it OTB last time I tried it.
I just had to try it.

3...Nc6?! (possibly even riskier than 3....Qe7 )3..Qf6 is the move.

Two pints you owe me. 🙂

Originally posted by vishyanand
Blown away in 16 moves 🙂 I feel Nd4 was a bad move.


Game 8490471[pgn][Event "Open invite"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2011.06.13"]
[EndDate "2011.06.25"]
[Round "?"]
[White "vishyanand"]
[Black "emperor31"]
[WhiteRating "1638"]
[BlackRating "1731"]
[WhiteElo "1638"]
[BlackElo "1731"]
[Result "0-1"]
[GameId "8490471" ...[text shortened]... f2g3 {!! the point of Bf2} 15. Nc3xd5 Qd8h4 {!! The end} 0-1

[/pgn]

When i was still trying to figure out how the horsey moved...

Originally posted by greenpawn34
That 3...Qe7 in the Latvian is now in the theorectical dustbin.
I knew that when I got scudded in 15 or 16 moves with it OTB last time I tried it.
I just had to try it.

3...Nc6?! (possibly even riskier than 3....Qe7 )3..Qf6 is the move.

Two pints you owe me. 🙂