The game below was played in the 2014 September Octet I 1700-1800 tournament at Red Hot Pawn. This game and my other game against veca were the last games left in this tournament but now all games are complete and I finished second after the clear winner AttilaTheHorn, who only drew one game and won the rest. These two remaining games decided the second and third place and those two games were long battles and in some ways unnecessarily long. Then again if people want to play to the very end, they have every right to do so. I personally would not continue a game that is completely lost and has no hope of a win or a draw. That being said, it is sometimes hard for me to hit that resign button. Accepting the fact that I have lost after a long battle is very hard for me to do, it used to be much harder, but with every loss it may come a little bit easier. Yesterday I briefly increased my peak rating to 1935 but almost immediately afterwards I had to resign a game and drop my rating eight points. I have added one mate in one, three mate in threes and one mate in six today. I have also added one game to my post C41 Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4.
Apart from some inaccuracies, the game was played reasonably well by both players until it came time for veca to play his or her 17th move N7c6 in the position below. More advisable moves are 17...g5 and 17...Kh8.
I responded with the move 18.Nc4 and after that the game was firmly in my grasp, despite some inaccurate moves I made. The game ended in my favor when I played 60.Qc8#.
Game number two. This was played in the 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III tournament that is still ongoing at Red Hot Pawn. This tournament started September 11th 2014 with all the games that are played in the tournament but due to the long time controls, there are still unfinished games. I, for instance, have three games still left to finish and all the games have 46 or 47 moves played in them so far. The winner of the tournament has been already decided though and the winner is a player called kopsov (2013). Kopsov has one more game left to finish in the tournament. The second place is currently in possession of a player called Luft (1978) but that might change as the remaining games finish. A player called Reverb (1702) is on third place at the moment and is the only player who can still overtake Luft and take the second place. I am currently in fourth place and I can only get to third place if all goes well in the remaining games.
This game followed the first game in this post up to the move 5...Bg7. In the first game I played 6.c3, but in this game I decided to play 6.Be3. Both moves should lead to an even position. The game went wrong for veca when my opponent played 7...c5 in the position below. I played 8.Nb5, which was the best reply.
I should be clearly better after my 8th move. If the game was not lost for veca after 7...c5, then it surely was lost after veca's next move 8...Be6?? My opponent never recovered from these early blunders and lost the game with the move 45.Qa8#.
Game number three. This was played on the first round of a tournament called 2014 October Glacial Super Casual Banded I 1650+, which is partly still in progress at Red Hot Pawn. 23 players started this tournament and players were divided into two groups, one consisting of 12 players and the other consisting of 11 players. I am playing in group 1, which is the slightly bigger one of the two. Both groups have been decided and therefore the second and final round has already started. All of the games in this tournament at the same time, on November 3rd, 2014. The game below ended on February 10th, 2016. I still have two games in progress from the games that started well over a year ago... That is some real dedication to the game in my opinion. The thinking times in this tournament have been the longest that I have ever experienced, timeout is 21 days and in addition to that there are 21 days in the bank. I am currently on fourth place and I will also be on fourth place in the final standings because the remaining games are not enough to change anything. Because I am currently the third highest rated player in the group, I am slightly disappointed by the way the tournament went. Then again when the tournament started, I may have been further down in the ratings, so at least something has gone in the right direction.
This game followed the first game in this post up to the move 6.c3. In the first game veca played 6...Ne7, but in this game veca chose to play 6...Nf6. The first move that changed the game clearly in favor of either player was seen in position below. Veca played 16...c5 for some reason and lost a pawn.
Due to my sloppy moves I was not able to keep all of my advantage and in the position below, I played 22.Qd2 and allowed my opponent back into the game. Veca replied to 22.Qd2 with the move 22...Qb6 and I was on the clearly better side of the board again. The best chance for veca was 22...d4 and my oppoent could have been quite close of holding on to a draw.
The final mistake of the game was seen a few moves later in the position you can see below. Veca played 27...axb4. It gave me two connected passed pawns on the queenside and made the rest of the game really easy for me.
The game ended when I played 54.Qe5#.
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