Linden's Chess Blunders

I play #chess. And I make lots of blunders in so doing.

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L. Lyons - gspp9
@chesscom, 23 August 2022
A good move for White here would be 15 exf5! 🙂
I played 15 f4??
Bad move. ☹️
Black wins material with a #discoveredattack: 15 ... exf4! 16 Bd2 (16 Bxf4? Bxc3) Qb6+ 17 Kh1 fxg3 18 hxg3.
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TiborLendvai - L. Lyons
@chesscom, February-June 2022
A perfectly good move for Black in this position is 28 ... Qxe4. 🙂
But I played 28 ... Qf5??
Bad move. ☹️
White can respond with a #knightfork, 29 Nd6+!, winning the queen. 😮
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dum3nc1 - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 26 May 2022
As Black in this position, I played 11 ... h6??
Bad move. ☹️
This allows a #knightfork after 12 Qh5+! Kd7 (12 ... Kf8?? 13 Qf7#) 13 Nf7. 😮
A better move for Black might be 11 ... b5. 🙂
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L. Lyons - VortexDan
@chesscom, March-May 2022
As White here, I played 47 b5??
Bad move. ☹️
This loses a pawn: 47 ... Ba5 48 Ke2 (48 b6? Bb4 49 Nb1 Bc2) Bb4 49 Nb1 Bxb5+. 😮
It is best to play 47 h4, with an eventual draw being likely. 🙂
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ingener777 - L. Lyons
@chesscom, February-May 2022
A good defensive move for me as Black here would have been 15 ... Rh6. 🙂
But I played 15 ... h4? ☹️
This loses material: 16 Bxc6! hxg3+ 17 hxg3 Rxh1 18 Qxb7+ Kd8 19 Qb8+ Qc8 20 Qxc8+ Kxc8 21 Rxh1. 😮
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CptTuttle - L. Lyons
@chesscom, Jan. 2022
As Black in this position, I played 18 ... Nd5??
Bad move. ☹️
This allows White to win a rook for a bishop with 19 Rg3 g6 20 Nxf6+ Qxf6 21 Bxf8 Rxf8. 😮
A better move would be 18 ... Rfe8. 🙂
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samcrowth3r - L. Lyons
@chesscom, Jan. 2021
My black queen is in danger. 😮
15 ... Qe7 would have been safe, but I thought 15 ... e5?? was clever. 😀
It is not. ☹️
White can take the pawn, 16 Bxe5, as 16 ... Qxe5?? leads to the pinning 17 Rfe1! 😬
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AluaraPMI - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 10 Jan. 2021
As Black in this position, I played 32 ... Ke7??
Bad move. ☹️
This enables White to execute a #knightfork, 33 Nc6+, which wins the rook for the knight.
A better move may have been 32 ... Rd5+. 🙂
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Best for White here is 24 Qxf6.
But does 24 Bf5?? pin the black queen? 😀
Only temporarily. ☹️
With the light-squared white bishop now off the long diagonal, Black wins much materiel: 24 ... Rh2+ 25 Kg1 Rh1+ 26 Kf2 (26 Kg2?? R8h2#) Qxf5+ 27 K~ Rxf1 etc. 😮
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Vahagn_07 - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 30 Dec. 2020
I am winning as Black in this position. 😀
I played 44 ... Rxb4??
That is #stalemate. 😮
I ought to have taken with the pawn: 44 ... axb4+. 😕
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L. Lyons - ashman29
@chesscom, 28 Dec. 2020
A good move for White here might be 37 Ra1 or 37 Bxd5+, but my 37 Ke1? is a mistake that loses the exchange after 37 ... Bg3+, e.g. 38 Rf2 Bxf2+ 39 Kxf2 or 38 Kd1 Nb2+ 39 Kc1 Bxf1 40 Kxb2. 😐
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L. Lyons - Hofnari
@chesscom, 23 Dec. 2020
My white king is in check! 😮
The only good move is 25 Kf1. 😀
But I played 25 Kh2??
Bad move. ☹️
This leads to #checkmate: 25 ... Be5+ 26 Bf4 Bxf4+ 27 Kh1 Nf2#.
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KhalTork - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 22 Dec. 2020
My 20 ... f6?? is a blunder that opens up the c4-g8 diagonal and allows 21 Qg8#. 😮
What move should I have played instead? I am not quite sure, but perhaps 20 ... Bb5 offers some chances of counterplay. 😕
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Dayum1337 - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 21 Dec. 2020
A safe move for Black in this position might be 13 ... a6, but I took what I thought was a free pawn: 13 ... Nxe4??
Bad move. ☹️
White can deliver a #queenfork, 14 Qd5+, which wins the knight. ☹️
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This position is based on one from a game on @chesscom that I lost against Dash the reindeer #chess bot. 🦌
My white king is in check. 😮
Ke4 is best, but I thought Kc2, attacking the d1-rook, looked good. 😀
It is not. ☹️
Black plays ... Ne3+, a #knightfork that wins the queen.

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L. Lyons - polrevert
@chesscom, 19 Dec. 2020
Perhaps best for White here is 20 e4, but I played 20 Bc1??
Bad move. ☹️
Black grabs the a1-rook, and not even a white counterattack on the a3-f8 diagonal is adequate compensation: 20 ... Be5 21 Ba3 Bxa1 22 Bxc5 ~ 23 Bxf8 Kxf8.
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L. Lyons - Patryk11111232323
@chesscom, 17 Dec. 2020
A good move for White here would be 53 Bf1 with the idea of 54 Bc4, but I played 53 d5??, permitting the #knightfork 53 ... Nd3+ and throwing away the winning advantage. 😐
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S. Sayed - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 16 Dec. 2020
As Black, I played 31 ... Rh6??
Bad move. ☹️
White wins the rook with a #knightfork: 32 Ng8+. 😮
Much better for Black is 31 ... b6, preparing to develop the c8-bishop and the a8-rook. 🙂
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S. Yazykov - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 15 Dec. 2020
In this position, Black might be able to hold on with 30 ... Be7, but my move, 30 ... Bh6??, permits the #rookfork 31 Rxf6+ Ke7 (31 ... Ke5 is tempting) 32 Rxh6 Bxe4 33 Rd2. 😐
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DimDimDimo - L. Lyons
@chesscom, 14 Dec. 2020
After 21 ... Nxe4 22 Qxe7, does 22 ... Nef6, trapping the white queen, enable Black to regain the sacrificed materiel?
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