Squashed Position

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As a welcome change of pace for readers such as Ngiammy, as well as revitalising what was an intended but sadly neglected feature for the blog, I decided that I will be posting some of my matches from Chess.com, since I'm participating in 2 tournaments atm, and set to start some team matches as well as a thematic tournament, so enjoy.

Today's match comes from my first tournament that I entered, the 1600-1800 division of the 6th Chess.com Quick Knockouts. It was against a lower rated opponent who was playing quite well, and I found myself in a bit of a positional disadvantage until the end.

Please leave your comments, I'll be interested to see where you think I could've gone better.

[Event "6th Chess.com Quick Knockouts (1601-1800)"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2009.10.01"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Bingshui"]
[Black "sebastiansaaveedra"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1934"]
[BlackElo "1636"]
[TimeControl "1 in 1 day"]
[Termination "Bingshui won by resignation"]

1.Nf3 d6 2.c4 e5 3.Nc3 Bf5 4.e4 Bg6 5.Qb3 b6 6.d4 Nf6 7.Bg5 Be7 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Rd1 Nbd7 10.Nxe5 Bd6 11.Nc6 Nc5 12.Qb5 Qd7 13.Bxf6 a6 14.Ne5 Qxb5 15.cxb5 gxf6 16.Nxg6 fxg6 17.bxa6 Nxa6 18.a3 O-O 19.Nb5 Be5 20.b4 c6 21.Nd4 Nc7 22.Nxc6 Bc3+ 23.Ke2 Rxa3 24.Rc1 Nb5 25.Kd1 Nd6 26.f3 Rf7 27.h4 Rc7 28.b5 Kf7 29.h5 g5 30.Rh3 h6 31.e5 Nb7 32.f4 Rd7+ 33.Rd3 Rxd3+ 34.Bxd3 Kf8 35.e6 1-0

So what did you think? Those early exchanges a bad idea? My endgame tactics a little off? Please let me know what you thought about the game.

Thanks, I'll post another game soon.

Till next time, may you agglomerate all your unpremeditated contemplations.