Chess on Code Review

but that one wasn't that bad, at that point you were down 4 points which, given made mistakes tally up to 1x pawn in the past exchange and 1x knight from a misstep

then 21. ... Rb8 rolls around and whilst you do prevent checkmate, you don't prevent the pin on the rook, your last major piece

well, pin, it's technically the king that's pinned

but it must move

so the piece behind it falls

h3 would have fixed the situation better than f3,

g3 would have been countered with Be4

Bernard Meurer

True, I thought on that one for a while

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to be honest, I didn't spot it myself until 1 turn later

was too occupied with getting my knight safe after my attack was "over"

even then you could still have moved either a pawn or the king to save the rook, but after that it got taken for free

and then you were 9 points down in the end game and it was over

Bernard Meurer

I think I did a little better this one, but fucked up bad with that first knight I got taken out

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this goes to trading pieces again - when you're 9 points down at the start of the game, ehhhhh well ofc it sucks and ofc you're on a fast track to a loss, but your opponent has 33% more points than you do...

and about the same in play

at the end, however,

I had rook + knight + bishop + 2 pawns in active play

you had 1 bishop and 3 pawns or so

that's 13 vs 6 and then it's overwhelming

yes, you certainly did a lot better here

a common chess strategy is to think moves ahead

but that's a bit vague advice

better advice is that you're playing the game from two sides, always

the nasty part about all this however is that uh

the player that is winning can usually think in the opponents time

so you think long and hard about your move