Well this game should not have been a draw if you look at the position where this game ended. White should be winning but I guess this game had gone too long because my opponent offered a draw and I of course accepted since my position is really bad. I tend not to resign that easily as I don't like it all that much. Usually only after my opponent has a forced win, I resign. And I never offer a draw in a position where I think I am lost. I only offer a draw when I think the position is a dead draw or in some friendly games when my opponent needs to leave before finishing the game. The game below was played in the first round of the tournament called Maximum ! and it was only fifth game to finish for me. As I look at the cross table, I am clearly the slowest person to finish my games. There are twelve players in the group and the best tree will advance to the next round. I have added two mate in ones, two mate in twos and one mate in five puzzle. I have also added a game to these two posts: E00 Indian Game: East Indian Defense and E11 Bogo-Indian Defense: Exchange Variation.
This paragraph and the ones that follow it in this first game have been added November 24th, 2016. I think both players played reasonable moves until we reached the position after 21.Rxe6. You can see that position below. I am not sure what I was thinking at the time, but I played 21...fxe6. I assume that I wanted to get away from the symmetrical pawn structure in order to get some imbalance in the position and maybe avoid the draw. I kind of succeeded, but not in the way I would have liked. The move 21...fxe6 is just bad in many ways. It weakens the g6 square and it creates a backward pawn on e6. I usually try to play in a way where my pawn structure remains healthy, so my 21st move is a bit uncharacteristic of me.
The game continued to go rapidly downhill for me as you can see in the game continuation 22.Re1 a6 23.Qg6 Rd8. The point of playing 22...a6 was to prevent Qb5 after Re8. However, the move 23.Qg6 showed how pointless my 22nd move actually was. The best way to handle the position was to play 22...Qd7, it stops Qb5 and in case of Qg6, I could play Re8 and maybe hang on in the game. My position was really horrible after 23.Qg6, but I made things even worse with the move 23...Rd8 because it should lead to further material loss. While writer15 did not find the best move, my opponent still had a winning advantage after 24.Rxe6.
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