Ah, the Scotch Gambit it was once one of the openings that I hated to face over the board especially, then it became something I liked to face as I got to know it better and lately it has probably come something that I hate again as my knowledge of it has disintegrated over the time I was inactive and did nothing chess related in months. This year I have become more active again though still avoiding close chess as much as possible. Long tournament games where I would need to sit several hours per game and think constantly my moves has not been my ideal way of wasting time. That being said I have become completely nuts as it comes to correspondence chess, I have currently 141 games in progress and more on the way as tournaments that I have joined start. I know that I am not even close to some of my opponents games in progress, I have seen some at Red Hot Pawn that have over 800 games in progress... They have to love the game really much. Even with all the games I have underway my feelings toward chess are more neutral than they were in my youth, then I really loved it and wanted to play it.
Game number two. There are a couple of opening variations where I never remember what to do after the theoretical moves have been played and this line is one of them. I think I should switch to playing 4...Be7 from now on, maybe that way of playing suits me better because I often find myself in trouble after I play 4...Bb4+. The game below was played on round 2 of the Smaller Tournament. This short and silly game was the last game I played on this round and in this tournament, because I was unable to advance to the next round. I was third in the final standings and I was able to get 4.5 points in 8 games. The saddest part is that all of my four wins came from timeout wins where a maximum of one move was played. Only the draw was really hard fought. Obviously I did play as well as I can in those three losses, well apart from the game below where I just played like an idiot.
I messed up in this game as early as move 6, when I played Qf6. I sometimes just play moves from memory, but the problem is my memory is not always correct, so mistakes can happen. Well, maybe I can get away with Qf6, but Qg6 was pushing it too far. I should have played 7...cxb2 instead. Maybe the final mistake was 8...Ba5, after that the game was completely lost. I just made things even worse for myself with my 9th move and had to resign after 10.Nh4 as my queen is trapped.
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