Backward analize this!
. . . Let me try to analyse backwards in order to find the seeds of my positional demise in a recent game. I belief that retrograde analysis is a term with a well specified meaning in chess, so in order to not annoy the few esoteric souls that are occupied with that I will use the term backward analysis in stead. In the graph above you see the appreciation of Rybka of a game of me as white. Somewhere around move 19 I was pretty lost, allthough it took me a long time to say goodbye to the point. What is so bad in the position of move 19 and how did it came about? Let's have a look at the diagram. . . . I just moved Rad1. What are the elements that make my position bad? That I feel obliged to give up the exchange? My knight is pinned. The diagonal d6 h2 is weak. The diagonal c5 g1 is weak. My knight has no place to go (besides that it is pinned). My knight is bound to the defense of pawn e4. The square e5 is firmly in the hands of the enemy. The f-file is in the hands of the enemy.