Game 4: Nivolet vs. Me - 6/18/13 on iggamecenter.com

This is the 2nd of the 2 games played with Nivolet at iggamecenter. I sucked in this one too, just like the first.

1. b1-b3 a3-c5?
(...a2-c2 would be better)

2. c8xc5 a5-c3?
(Maybe ...h2-f2

3. e1xc3 a4-c4?

Three bad moves in a row. Black has limited the movement of white's pieces in column A. This is not going to go well.

4. g8xc4 a2-c2
5. b8-b6 a6-b7
6. f8-d6 a7-d7

Trying to walk around.

7. g1-d4
Black's last 5 moves have all connected.

...b7-e7
8. b3-d5
Enables d1xd7

...c2-e4
9. d1xd7 e4-g6
10. f1-d3

...h6xd6.
A hopeless attempt at defense.

11. d5-c6 e7-e5
12. c1-b2#

Lesson learned? Besides the horrible opening, my pieces in column H were totally useless in the endgame. Nivolet kept his pieces just out of reach of any counterattack.