This opening reminds me of the game when Frank James Marshall played this against José Raúl Capablanca for the first time. Marshall had prepared the opening for years but when he finally got to play it against Capablanca, he lost. That is one of the old games that I remember going through some years ago. I have actually gone through other games from these players as well but that I remember the best. Well, not the game itself but the story related to it I remember to some extent.
The game below is my second game against ACW and both were played in the Team Match Champions League Division D, round one match between DEORLS! and THE VAMPIRE. I played both of my games quite badly, I am ashamed to admit and lost quite quickly. I played board seven for DEORLS! and these two games happened to be my first two matches representing them. Luckily other members of the team have had better success in their games and the score is tied 25,5 at the moment I type this. So even though I was not able to be all that much help as a player, maybe the fact that I joined and dropped some players to lower boards helped a bit at least. When I typed about the fact that I feel more confident about my moves yesterday, I had not yet gone through some of the moves I still had to do in my correspondence games. While I went through them, I noticed yet another blunder I had done, this time taking a pawn with my knight that I thought would be safe to do. It turned out I had miscalculated again or maybe thought that my opponent would play the moves in different order. He just took my knight and then I noticed that I can't take back as more terrible thing would be coming my way. I have to stop making these bad moves now or I will see myself dropping my rating hundred or more points due to silly blunders I should not do anymore. I should know better by now. I have added two mate in twos, one mate in three, one mate in four and one mate in six puzzle today.
Game number two. The game below was played on the first round of the Ruy Lopez tournament that is being played at Chess.com. This tournament started on October 10th 2014, so the first round has lasted clearly over a year now and it will last quite a long time still. One of my first round games has not even started yet... That is because you only play one game per opponent at a time, which seems silly in view of the thinking times used in the tournament. You can use 14 days to think about your every move. Well, not all of it, because then you would timeout, but close to it. I am playing on group #1 and from the 20 games that have finished so far, I have won all of them!! Not sure if the reason for this is more due to time consumption than anything else. Not all people seem to understand that this can take a long time to finish even if they are aware of the thinking times when joining the tournament. So when the duration of the tournament gets too big for them, they quit playing in the tournament.
The best three players of each group will advance to the next round and it is already clear who are those three players in the group I am in. It will be me, adamredsox24 and djsniper800. The only games in progress in group #1 are my games against adamredsox24, well actually the second one has not even started yet because of the silliness I explained earlier. There are still 16 games left to finish in this round, so it is unclear how long it will be until the next round can start. My opponent in the game below, bzalasky, finished fourth in this group with a score of 15 points out of the possible 22 points.
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