I think after this post I will go back to my Red Hot Pawn games as I am quite far behind from the latest games that have finished there. There are, of course, a lot of games to go through in general. I may have gone through over 500 games but there are thousands still to go... In case I go through all the games I have played that have some sort of notation. The game below was played in a team match called Team United States Chess says Trick or Treat to the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy.(og418). I play board 3 for the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. This match is played on 21 boards and the current score is 10,5 - 30,5 in favor of Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, so we have already won the match against Team United States Chess. This match started on October 27th 2014 and the only game remaining is maybe not a huge surprise to anyone. It is my other game against TurboFish that is still ongoing in this match. The first blunder of the game was played by my opponent on move 15. TurboFish decided to reply to 15.e5 with the passive knight move Ne8. The knight on e8 has no good place to go from e8 and also removes the e8 square from the rook on f8, which might be a natural square for the rook to go otherwise.
The knight may have been able to get back into game, had I continued with 15...exd6, so that TurboFish could have replied with 16.Nxd6. I was not able to take advantage of this mistake, because I played 16.Ne4, which does bring the knight closer to the enemy king, but nothing more. The square e4 was a good square to go to, but only with the queen. Another good move for me was 16.Rad1. The game continued with the moves 16...Bf5 17.Bd3 and then with the next two moves TurboFish really destroyed his or her chances to fight for a draw.
In the game TurboFish played 17...Bg4, which started my opponent's downhill. I then moved my knight from e4 to d2, to which my opponent replied with the move 18...c6 and for the moment TurboFish was in a losing position. I needed to play 19.dxc6, but for some reason I decided to play 19.exd6 instead. Now that I look at this position, it seems obvious to me that dxc6 is much better. Maybe I have learned something about the game of chess over the years or maybe I just have looked at the position more than I did when this game was played. That being said, I should have still been in the preferred side of the board. The final blunder that lost the game for my opponent was 20...bxc6.
I played 21.c5, which both attacked the queen on d6 and more importantly blocked the diagonal for the bishop residing at a7. While I did not play the most accurate moves during the remainder of the game, I never played badly enough to let my opponent back into the game again.
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