I am starting to post analysis made in my correspondence games to show that they are not all that better than my blitz games sometimes... ;-) However, this first example is first of all quite a short game and one in which I managed not to make any serious mistakes. There will be other examples in which I play like a brain-dead monkey even if there are usually many days to think about a move in the correspondence chess games I play. Speaking of which, I have at the moment 139 of those games in progress. A long time ago when I turned 25 I wanted to play 100 corr games simultaneously but it took 5 more years for me to actually get into the headset that I should try this and now it has gone a bit over the originally planned amount of games. And it might even increase from this current amount. In the opening theory phase I have managed to move in all of the games it was my turn to move during the same day but now when the games have mostly gone beyond my opening knowledge and middlegame and uncertain phases have started, I had to divide my time a bit and not move in all the games. It feels like I would play 139 blitz games simultaneously since the actual amount of time I use per move resembles that of a blitz game. Mostly I am completely clueless as what to do and for some reason or the other, some sites I manage to win more often than lose and others I mostly lose. At Chess.com I think I have lost 7 of my last daily games there, for example. I play there sometimes also blitz and in one of them I managed to get a nice mate, I will show you lot that game or the mate sometime in the future.
Nothing of great interest happened in the game until it came time for my opponent to make hers or his 10th move. Flo25 decided to capture the bishop with the pawn, which weakens the pawn structure on the kingside, it doubled the pawns on the f-file and left the h-pawn isolated. It was completely unnecessary thing to do, because Qxf6 was possible. Maybe my opponent wanted to use the g-file for attack, but there really was nothing to attack since I castled on the queenside as my reply to gxf6.
My opponent could not recover from the mistake even though I did not make the best possible moves after it. The game was not lost at this point, however. The game losing mistake was played when my opponent moved the bishop to g5 on move 13. The bishop left the job of defending the pawn on d6 only to the queen, which was insufficient because I attacked the pawn with two pieces, which meant I was able to win a pawn. After the trades on d6, my opponent made winning of the game much easier for me with the move 15...Be7, because I was able to take a free piece on e6, due to the fact that the f-pawn was pinned by the bishop on h5.
Game number two. This was played on the second round of the 28th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800). I advanced from the first round with ease, I won all my ten games in group 137. The second player in the group got only five points. On this second round, I was put in my place again and I was fifth on the final standings of group 18. I was able to only get 4 points out of the possible 10 this round, which was a huge disappointment after the great success of round one. This meant that I am now eliminated from this tournament because only the winner or winners will advance to next round. My opponent in this game, fliubo, was playing much better and managed to get 8 out of the 10 possible points. Unfortunately for fliubo, there was one player who played slightly better and was able to get 8.5 points. The player who won our group is called Kounle (1777).
I was able to play roughly equally with my stronger opponent for the first 19 moves. My 20th move, Bh4, was the first sign of actual trouble for me. The problem with my move was that fliubo could have first taken on e2, forcing the reply Qxe2, because Nxe2 would lose the queen and then my opponent could have taken the pawn on f4 and won a pawn. Fliubo took the pawn on f4 first, which was not as good as 20...Bxe2.
While the move played in the game, 20...exf4, also won a pawn, I could have had compensation for the lost material in the game continuation, but not if my opponent had taken on e2 first. I should have replied with 21.Nd3 and maybe I could have been able to draw the game with accurate play. I took the knight on f6 with my bishop on move 21 instead, which was unfortunately one move too late. When I took on f6, I may have briefly thought that I can take on f4 and get the material back. That being said, when I saw the reply 21...Bxf6, it was obvious that I can't win the pawn back so easily or at all. I then made position even worse, likely even lost with my next move 22.Rfd1. At this moment in the game it seemed that I am going to lose yet another game, but I did get one more chance to hold on to a draw when my opponent played 32...Bh4.
I was able to get into a position where material was even and the game should have headed towards a draw. Unfortunately I quickly collapsed after that with the move 36.Ne4.
My position only went downhill after that and maybe my final nail in the coffin was my 42nd move Nd4, after that I was completely lost. However, I did not want to resign the game for some reason and continued the game up to the move 66...Bg5 and then resigned.
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