The Opening Phase of a game...

One really good feeling is outplaying your opponent in the opening. This is where the foundation for any middlegame masterpiece should be laid. herein I present you with two games.

GAME 1:

my opponent playing black messed up his opening and faced with hellfire in the way of tactical complications buckled and finally resigned on move 18. job well done I thought.

GAME 2:

my good friend playing black accepted a transposition into the kings gambit accepted and me massively excited, borrowed an idea from the Evans gambit and pushed the e4 pawn on move six upon which I got properly THUMPED!!
A masterful sacrifice was unleashed on me and I cracked.



MORAL of the story:
know your openings well and execute them with reason. Chess is not a game of emotions so only borrow ideas from other openings ONLY when absolutely certain it will pay off.
Back to the drawing boards for me till next time.

FEAR OF THE UNCERTAIN!!

As a budding chess player one attempts to absorb all the theory and "knowledge" from those better than them. we have heard all the mantras of chess and here is a painful game where despite my outplaying my opponent in the opening, I was afraid of committing myself to the uncertain.
ok...
ON MOVE 16:
The center looks like its gonna bust open and as we know bishops prefer open positions so theory would have me exchange my knight for the d2 bishop and centralize my rooks and proceed to stress my central dominance..


ahem I was scared so I chose a less committing plan...

there was no turning back from this mishap and this loss more than any other has stressed to me the importance of cold bloodedly following a plan and sticking to it..