This one is a short timeout win, but it could have been a humiliating loss to a much lower rated opponent. My total lack of awareness to tactical possibilities is my major weakness when playing chess and it can often cause me to lose against a much lower rated opponent if they just can solve tactics better than me. Luckily I do not play all that many games against much lower rated players anymore. The game below was played in the first round of the 2014 October Long Haul Split I tournament at Red Hot Pawn. I am playing on group 2 and I am currently on shared sixth place. I have gathered 27 points so far and I have won all my games. It does not mean that my games would have been that good, but somehow I managed as a winner, at least that has been the case so far. The current leader of the group is beatlemania (1677), who has gathered 42 points in this tournament and has a maximum possible score of 60. Beatlemania is currently the second highest rated player in the group. Second place is taken by Blackpoolmad (1589) with 40 points and a maximum possible score of 58. On third place is Marko Krale (1489) with 38 points and a maximum possible score of 41. The numbers on the parentheses are the ratings of the players that they currently have.
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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