Today I shall present to you this short game that I won on time. Even if my opponent had not flagged, the position for him was really bad anyway. This game was played in Sarah's Mini Cooper Tournament (No 52), the time control for the game was 3 days/move. There was at the start of the tournament 100 players that were divided into groups of five. From each group two of the best players will advance to the next round. I had to resign my last game of round one against a player who was around 450 points lower rated than me but played much better than his rating would suggest. I am actually surprised that he did not make it to round two. That game was also the only loss I suffered in round one in this tournament. In my other game against the player who was the only one that could beat me, I also had difficulties but I was able to get a win in that game. I will post that game at some point here, when I have analysed it. I should maybe avoid playing correspondence chess tournaments where the winner advances to the next round. This is because I may completely forget that tournament even exists before the next round starts. Assuming that I win my group, of course, it does not happen all the time. Today I noticed that my Red Hot Pawn games had increased from 133 to 141, so I started look what had caused this. After I found out what games had started, I figured out that one of the tournaments had moved on to the next round. I had forgotten all about that tournament. This meant that my games in progress is now 288, so the real chance of it getting over 300 is still there. I have added more puzzles to mate in ones, twos and threes today.
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