The game below was played at the FIDE Online Arena in the first round of a rapid chess tournament. In this game I got outplayed by a player who was lower rated than me at the time this game was played by over 450 points... I am not all that knowledgeable of the Petrov's Defense or the Russian Game because it is a very rarely occuring opening in my games and I think my opponent may have known it better than me. I do not remember if my opponent in this game was one of those players whose official rating was very low compared to their unofficial rating but I have had a few of those people playing against me in these tournaments. Partly because of that I was not able to get the title of Arena International Master from the first 50 rapid games I played at FOA because I dropped below the rating requirement of that title. I have tried to play some games there from time to time but lately it has been difficult to get an official 15 minute game played there which is why I am still missing 18 games from the game requirement for the title. I have considered playing blitz games and see if I can get those games played faster and at the same time keep my rating above the rating requirement but I would need to play 100 games in the faster time controls and maintaining my rating over 1700 in that many blitz games might not be possible for me. Then again I might be completely wrong about my current blitz playing skills. After all, I have played blitz quite well over the board at least in the recent times and my national blitz rating is clearly higher than my national standard rating. But when I have played blitz on the internet, my ratings on different sites are usually quite low, over 200 points lower than my OTB blitz rating. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts!
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