This was played in the second round of a rapid chess tournament that was played at the FIDE Online Arena on April 5th 2015. In the first round of this tournament I lost against a player who was rated almost 300 points lower than me, so the tournament had not gone all that well and winning on this second round against a player who was lower rated by over 500 points was only a small consolation. Tomorrow I will post a third round game from this same tournament and I will type more about this tournament then.
I would like to thank all of you who have followed me on Google+ and Twitter and also people who have shared my posts, it is much appreciated! After this post there are 882 analysed chess games of mine posted in here and 374 different opening variations are featured in those games. Out of those 882 games, I have won 568 (64.4%), drawn 74 (8.39%) and lost 240 (27.21%). It might be also interesting to note that the most featured opening variation in this blog, A20 English Opening: King's English Variation. General, has only 30 games in it which means that learning opening theory might not be all that useful because I faced the exact same line only about 3.4% of the time. And most of the variations have only one game in them which means most of those opening variations I have only faced about 0.1% of the time. Admittedly that is not the most theoretical opening and most of the games that were played in that variation were played years ago when my main opening move with White was c4. In those times I knew very little about different openings or how they are supposed to be played. I may not be expert on openings even to this day but I have much better knowledge of them since I started blogging again. I have, for instance, started to remember the ECO codes of some lines quite well, I mean after nearly 900 games of searching for the opening played in a game, I should start remembering something about them... I have added one mate in one, two mate in two, one mate in three and one mate in four puzzle today.
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