Ah, back again after a two day break from posting. I actually used those two days more or less by doing some maintanance to this blog. I mostly corrected some minor mistakes that I have made in the past. As I went through all the posts, I noticed a mistake in the ECO code of one post and corrected it. Even though I usually am careful and check the ECO codes these days better than I did when I started doing this blog, there can occasionally be an inccorrect code in the post. I am quite confident though that I will not make a similar mistake in the future because I think I can learn from my past mistakes. I also now know for certain that there are 808 analysed chess games in this blog. Also for the first time since I started doind this blog, I can now check all the stats easier from the .ods file I made. As long as I remember to update that file, I should now all the essential statistics from the openings I have played. The game below is my latest game from Queen Alice Internet Chess Club. I have lost three games in a row there now, which is not a good sign. Even worse, I have only won one game out of the last seven games, played one draw and lost five games. Maybe I am a bit too hard on myself though because my opponents have been quite good, three of those losses have come against a player rated over 2400 and two of the losses against a player who is currently over 2200 but his true rating might be even higher because he still has a provisional rating and he his rating has gone steadily upward. This game was played in the second round of the AUTO-MASTER-2135 tournament that is still in progress. Only three players are left in this second and final round. I am currently in last place in the group and because I face tough opponents, I may not get much higher than that. This was my first game to end, so I have zero points, my opponent in this game, Franzel, is on first place with four points. On second place is a player called Evandrobit, who I have faced before and I have bad score against him. Evandrobit has two points that came from his draws against Franzel. That means of course that they share the win of the tournament if they both win me twice. I have added one mate in one, one mate in two, one mate in three and two mate in five puzzles today.
Game number two. This game, played at Chess.com in a team match called Natalia Pogonina! vs Space Angels Celebrate was my second game against hlornik. The match was played between We love Natalia Pogonina! and Space Angels Chocolate Dunk Monster Strawberries In Andromeda's Cluster Of Infinite Bright Stars on 33 boards. I played on board 7 for Space Angels Chocolate Dunk Monster Strawberries In Andromeda's Cluster Of Infinite Bright Stars and managed to win both of my games against hlornik. The final score in the match was 11.5 - 54.5 in favor of Space Angels Chocolate Dunk Monster Strawberries In Andromeda's Cluster Of Infinite Bright Stars.
The game below followed a similar path as can be seen in the first game in this post until hlornik played 5.Bd2. The move order was a bit different though. The first sign of trouble for my opponent was when hlornik played in the position below 10.exd5. It might be argued that my opponent's play can be improved earlier on, but hlornik should have been able to hold a draw with accurate play, had hlornik played 10.Re1, for example.
The game continued to go downhill for my opponent and hlornik's position became lost only a few moves later when he played 15.Qb3.
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