Played this game last night actually, after I had finished analyzing my previous entry.  Have to say, I'm pretty embarrassed by this one, especially after having the computer pick me apart.  A note on my annotation, I don't add the ??,! etc myself.  Its what Fritz comes up with when I do a full analysis of my games.  Mostly its because I don't have a good enough feel for analysis yet, other than obvious blunders, to feel like my annotation would mean anything.  I might need to tune Fritz to give me a little bit of a break here, as it seems like the threshold for ?? seems low.  However, I will admit to most of my moves this game being really bad.

Opponent (1245) vs. Carde99 (1345)



August 16, 2012

I think I'm going to give Silman's Complete Endgame Course a shot this weekend.  There is a copy at a local Barnes and Noble available.  I also play Blitz games at FICS, and I blundered a horrible endgame the other night, so it might be time to really start studying endgames in detail.  A book I'm currently going through, called Winning Chess Strategy for Kids by Jeff Coakley covers some endgame basics, but I think I would be well advised at this point to really study them more in detail.