What to say about the tournament I played last weekend, except that I managed to only get 2 points out of the possible 5. It was far from a good result but it does not bring me down all that much. I play more important games elsewhere these days than on close chess. Well, more important to me at least. With 264 games in progress at the moment I may end up having 300+ games if I am not careful... The amount of games I play now is still manageable though it does mean that I am only able to move in the games where I would lose on time if I would not move every day. I am planning to create a schedule where I would do all the games at Chess.com Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays while Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays I would move in my all Red Hot Pawn games. This I planned in order to manage my time better. Currently at 103 games at Chess.com and 149 RHP games in progress. As they are the two major contributors to my correspondence chess games, I feel that I need to start following that schedule as well as I possibly can.
Leduar took the first clear step in the wrong direction when my opponent played 14.Ne4 in the position below. The correct idea was to play the bishop to b2. Moving the knight to e4 was a bad idea, because it allowed me to ruin the pawn structure in front of leduar's king. I took advantage of my opportunity and replied by taking the knight on f3 with my bishop. It is true that I lose my bishop pair because of it, but the exchange was clearly in my favor.
The blunder my opponent made on his or her 14th move was the start of leduar's downfall. The game continued with the moves 15.gxf3 Bh4 16.Kh1 Qd5 and then my opponent made his or her final mistake by playing 17.c4. The problems that arose due to the pawn advance are that the pawn on b4 was no longer protected and the square d4 was no longer controlled by the c-pawn, which made the square d4 ideal place to move my knight to. My opponent never recovered from this blunder and I was able to checkmate my opponent on move 34 with the move Qxd1#. Admittedly I had a faster mate before, but I did not see it.
Game number two. This is the 48th game in the 100 rapid game match between these two players. My friend got his second win in a row in this match and decreased my lead to 9 points. The score after this game was 28.5 - 19.5. Even though losing two games in a row was not that big of a deal just yet, I needed to be careful not to lose too many games in a row and maybe even get a draw to break the losing streak as soon as possible in order to keep things still firmly in my control.
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