The game below is the second game I have played at FIDE Online Arena. My first game might have been a good game from me but this second game started to feature more mistakes. Thinking time in this game was 15 minutes. The thing I have learned in these 15 minute games that I have played at FIDE Online Arena is that I may have problems in the time usage. I either start to use too much of it or too little. In the first six games there I think that my head was in the right place and I could use the time properly. Yesterday I was able to play three more games towards the title requirement, which was nice but I also lost over 50 rating points and that is starting to be a near catastrophe. In the tournament yesterday I faced a player whose monitored elo was a bit over 1300. If that would have been her true rating, it would not have mattered that much but her unmonitored elo was above 2200... I of course lost and lost a lot of rating points because it was the monitored elo that was used in the game. If this would be something that rarely happens, it would not be so annoying but it seems to happen almost every tournament there. Well, in the couple of tournaments I have played there so far that is. All my opponents who have won a game against me, have deserved to win the games as they have played better than I have, I am not questioning that. It is just that the way I lose rating points that annoys me. Oh yeah, before I forget, yesterday when I posted C20 English Opening: The Whale, it was 500th game to be seen in this blog!! I noticed it only today hence the late announcement. After today there are 493 analysed chess games here and 9 analysed chess960 games. It is likely that by the end of the year, there will be at least 1000 games here. I have added one mate in three, one mate in four, one mate in five, one mate in seven and one mate in eight puzzle today.
The blog features analysed games of mine, consisting of chess, chess960 and 3 check. There are also puzzles that you can solve by moving the pieces on the board and the solution can be checked by using the engine provided by the ChessBase's publishing tool. All games and puzzles can be downloaded for free!
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20 Mar 2015
C96 Closed Spanish Game: Chigorin Defence: 11.d4, replies other than 11...Qc7 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 Be7 6.O-O b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 Na5 9.Bc2 c5 10.h3 O-O 11.Re1)
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