The game below is the 678th analysed chess game to appear in this blog, so there have been quite a lot of them thus far. 678 games is still only a small part of all the games I have played over the years, so a lot more to cover in order to know what is my real success rate in different openings and how many different openings I have played during the last 14 years. I really should have started going through these games back in 2001, when I started to play chess in tournaments. Better late than never, I suppose. I know it probably is not all that useful for me to look at games of mine that have been played so long ago, since the way I play has changed quite a lot since those days and they do not offer improvements to my game the same way that my recent games could provide. Obviously I have not gone through my older games all that much anymore, only the more recent examples, but when those do not provide me material anymore, I will start looking at my older games that are not in this blog yet.
The game below was played in the 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III tournament at Red Hot Pawn. I am currently in the theoretical fight for the win of the tournament but at this time it would seem that it is only a matter of time when I am eliminated from the battle for the win. The current leader of the tournament, kopsov, has gathered 105 points so far, only one point less than my maximum possible score. If he wins one of his remaining games, I am eliminated from the fight. He can do that with two draws as well, so it does look a bit grim for me. Even if he does not win or draw two out of his last three games, I can still mess up my chances by either drawing or losing a game. As I have nine more games left to play, it is quite likely that I can't win them all. In the game below one serious mistake by my opponent was all that I needed to win this game. That mistake happened on his 25th move and after that it was quite easy to convert my advantage into a winning one. I have added one more game to my post C62 Spanish Game: Steinitz Defense today. I have also added two mate in twos, one mate in three and after a long, long break also two easy tactical exercises. When I started those for the first time, I thought I would be adding them on a regular basis but it never happened because I thought that making those kind of puzzles would take too long to make. It is a lot easier to do mate in x number of moves than it is doing tactical positions, because with tactical positions I would need to go through the games from start to finish in order to see if there are good tactical ideas worth of posting. With these mate in x number of moves I usually look at the position at the end of the game and see if there are forced mate there or near the end. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts!
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