Nice video! Welcome to the forums.


Brett

Welcome to the forums and nice introduction

Being inspired by Morphy is always a good thing! He's one of the best chess players of all time. I've been looking at his games lately and I feel like they're really helping me improve.

I like your explanations of white's poor plan with Nf3-e5-d7. I agree completely. He moved three times to take your bad light-squared bishop.

Nice work exploiting the weak a6 pawn. Very logical and strong play.

As you mention, g3 is very weak. By the end, you controlled most of the board. Very nice!

I think the main thing about this game is that white, as you mentioned, wasted a lot of tempi with his knights.

You made a mistake when you played f6 in response to Ne5. Your opponent should've played Qh5+ if g6 then Nxg6 if hxg6 then Qxh8 You both missed that. Take care and thanks for posting the video.

ketchuplover makes a good point and one I forgot to mention.

Qh5+ is very powerful. If you try Ke7, white has Ng6+ winning the exchange.

yes i see that now, thx

you talk about how your opponet could have taken your knight on the side of the board, i dont like tat move because for one your rook has acess to the half open file and if your opponet does not take your knight he keeps his good bishop and leaves your knight feeling akward on the side of the board.