My journey through different openings has led me to this very simple opening. From time to time I face certain players that play these sort of silly openings. That is of course good as long as they come up with something new that I have not covered yet... Arayn's second move h4 does not really make all that much sense in the position. In the opening one should concentrate on developing his or her pieces as fast as possible and take control of the center and the move 2.h4 does not do either. As fast development is important if you make unnecessary pawn moves that do not help in your development, your position will just get worse. The game below is from the first round of the 2014 September Glacial Super Casual I tournament that is still ongoing at Red Hot Pawn. I am currently on second place in my group, only a point behind the leader of the group, doozer2004. Theoretically all the eight players in the group have a chance of winning the group as the maximum possible score that everyone has is still better than the points that have been gathered by the current leader. That all might change quite quickly though with a couple of wins by either me or the current leader as then the player who currently is on sixth place will no longer have his maximum possible score higher than the person who would be leading the tournament at that point. If I look at the ratings of all the players in my group, there are some huge differences between the players. For example, currently my rating is 1905 and that enables me to be the highest rated player in the group, then the currently lowest rated player is organisedRegicide who has a rating of 973 at the moment. So there is a difference of over 900 points there. Funnily enough, the only game I have lost so far in this tournament is against that same lowest rated player... It was one of the embarrassingly many times that I have missed a mate in one in a correspondence game. Lately I have been more alert and things like that have not happened in my games anymore. I have added one mate in two, one mate in four, two mate in five and one mate in six puzzle today. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts and other people who have come to see this blog!
Game number two. This one is from a 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III tournament that is still ongoing at Red Hot Pawn. Not much has changed since the last time I typed about this tournament except that now there are only five players left who can still win the tournament, so one player has dropped from the battle for the win. I am still in that fight and try to keep myself there as long as possible and maybe get my first tournament win at Red Hot Pawn. I still have 14 games left to completely mess things up though, so anything can happen. This game was added May 1st 2015.
Game number three. It seems that some openings are only played by certain players. This particular opening variation has only featured one player in the three games I have posted and I remember one other post I have made where there are three games and they are played against the same opponent. If my memory serves me right, these two posts are the only examples of this at least so far. There might be others in the future and this post might also feature other players in the distant future when I have gone through more of my games. The game below was played in a tournament called 2014 October Long Haul Split I. This tournament started October 24th 2014 and it has a time control where you get 21 days for every move you make. It has been quite of a slow paced tournament as the move count in my games ranges from 9 to 15 moves... Admittedly it is my fault in part because I have taken quite a lot of time to make my moves. Maybe I will be able to move faster if I can get my game load down significantly. This game was added to this post May 6th 2015.
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