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I basically agree with the other answers, saying that 60 moves is not too long and that you can do various things to improve your play. As for 30 moves being the optimum, for some of the best players …

Don't worry, finding a good middle game plan is not easy for a beginner and takes some experience to develop as there is often more than one option to follow. It is not something you can generalize or …

Usually if there is a blocked pawn chain one is trying to attack it close to its base with a pawn from the side. For instance, in the classical king's Indian black is playing f5 (not c6) and later (i …

Black played the opening against principles: did not develop pieces and did not occupy the center. In order to gain an advantage out of this, you need to act quickly. However you played just normal mo …

I assume that by "attacking play" you mean a direct attack (mating attack) against the enemy king. This question is too general to be answered unless all you want is a recommendation for study resour …

I think you partially answered the question yourself. I can think of 3 scenarios. In very closed positions like this game of Nakamaura against Rybka neither side may be able to improve the position, …

Positional play/strategy .. this is based more on intuition, experience, general principles and is much harder to train than tactics/calculation. … But don't worry, for most beginner games, tactics/calculation is much more important than long term strategy. …

Ideally you'd have another, better player look over your games and point out some problems with your strategy. For passive learning of strategy, reading/watching annotated games could be an option. …

This is a game between beginners. Nothing wrong with that, but there is not much point at this level giving a very deep explanation as to the "why". Both players should pay more attention to not bl …

Nf5 ...Qh7, Nd6+ (discovered attack) wins the queen. Note that any other attempts to save the queen fails: Nb4 or Nce7 or Nge7 or Nf6 with the idea to attack the white queen fail because Nxg7+ is ch …

Your analysis is pretty much to the point. I am not a 1. d4 or Slav player, but the opening looks fine to me. Basically you liked the (sham) sacrifice starting with 14 e4 so much that you ignored th …

Most of the time, the middlegame strategy will depend on the position you get out of the opening. …

This position is not easy to assess. Indeed, white has a rook, but black has a bishop and two pawns for it, which is roughly equal material-wise. Also there are no open files, so white's rook do no …

Several reasons I can think of: black is obviously playing on the kingside and Qe8 is a useful move aiming to transfer the queen to f7, g6 or perhaps h5 later. Also it might be useful to push e4 lat …

From my (rated around 2200) experience, which might be useful to you... I used to spend little time on studying opening theory and almost exclusively played the Kings Indian Attack for which you need …