Not sure if there are any chess players on here or not, but I wrote this up and thought it was kind of fun. Decided to post it here and see if anyone cared.
I play chess on my phone, against a cpu that should be easy to beat. I play too quickly all of the time and make stupid mistakes like hanging a piece I wasn't paying attention to or allowing pins I should see coming from a mile away. The undo button is a close friend of mine that I always feel a little guilty when I see him because he pays for everything. I often don't think and end up playing in "bullet mode" even though I have no business trying to play this game quickly at all.
I had a few drinks tonight and decided to try a new approach where I said at the beginning of the game that I want my knight on e6 with pawn support. Then I tried to make it happen.
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 O-O 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. O-O d6 7. d5 {At this point I'm feeling pretty good because I've provided the support to start moving my king side knight to e6} Ne5 8. Nxe5 {damn, oh well, guess that'll wait till next game.} dxe5 9. Be3 c6 10. Qe2 Cxd5 11. exd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 Qxd5 13. c4 Qd8 14. Rad1 Bd7 15. Be4 Qc8 16. h3 Bf5 {I had some trouble here with black's light squared bishop and had to take back a move or two, don't remember the exact moves but it had to do with not realizing when my queen was or wasn't protected.} 17. f3 Bd7 18. Rd2 Be6 {It was here that I realized the importance of secure pawn structure before trying to attack, I need to keep that in mind} 19. b3 Re8 20. Rfd1 Rf8 21. Bd5 Qd7 22. f4 exf4 23. Bxf4 Qc8 {I got here and just stared blankly at my phone, it was an odd moment of thinking "Should I initiate that trade now or avoid it?" I guess deciding this just comes with running the variations in your head and recognizing when you come out ahead. This was the first time I've used a computer program to run analysis in order to make sure that Bxe6 really was the right move.}