Today I was proven yet again why I can only call myself a casual chess player and I can maybe never be actually good at the game. Today morning when I went to see what had happened in my correspondence games at Red Hot Pawn, I immeadiately saw that one of my games had ended in my loss, worse yet it was in a game I thought I would win with ease. I was up four pawns in that game but of course it does not matter if I can't see my opponent's obvious mate threat. It was not the first time I went into a mate in one in a correspondence game this year and I am afraid it might not be the last one either. I have lost two games where I had clearly a better game or winning game if I had seen the mate threat that is. In one game I was already losing when I missed the mate in one, so that does not worry me all that much. I have of course done other huge blunders this year also, hang my queen in two of my correspondence games and probably other pieces too though can't think of any at the moment for some reason. As I probably need to make some more moves still today, it is interesting to see in how many I make blunders from which I can't recover...
The move 3...h6 was already a move that made the game somewhat easy for me. This is because the move loses a pawn. I replied with the obvious move 4.dxe5. Then Tonto played another odd move, 4...a6. I am assuming that the purpose of both 3...h6 and 4...a6 is to prevent me from placing a piece on g5 and b5. I think both moves are waste of time and my opponent would have been better off by developing his or her pieces instead of the pawn moves. The position below has been taken after my 5th move, Bc4.
In this position my opponent played 5...Be7. This first developing move by Tonto was a huge blunder. Tonto should have played 5...Nc6 instead. Tonto's 5th move was so bad that it could have been the losing move. I am not sure what was going on in my head, but I only castled in reply. I guess I was not sure if I can castle afterwards if I did not do it at that moment. I had a stronger move available, 6.Qd5. Had I placed my queen to d5, the game might have been over sooner. I might have not been playing the most accurate moves in the remainder of the game, but the advantage was clearly on my side with ease regardless.
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