The game below was played in the third round of the 2014 August Banded Threesomes I 1700-1800 tournament that is still in progress at Red Hot Pawn. I have only one game left to finish and so far I have lost all my games on round three. With this win my opponent took the lead in the group and simultaneously I confirmed my last place in this four player group. I have done so many silly mistakes at my games lately at Red Hot Pawn that my rating keeps going down. Well, whenever I will finish my games at RHP, I will take much needed break from correspondence chess for some time. I think after I have taken that break and started playing there again, I will be able to turn things into a more positive direction.
There has been some discussion about the way I post puzzles and some people have certainly expressed their feelings about that. This mostly concerns some positions I posted to social networks and the comments that I have received there. All of those positions appear in this blog of course. Not all the people like the way sometimes there are positions where there is a mate to be found in some number of moves and the side who is doing the mate is up sometimes considerable material. To such positions, some of the people comment things like the position is already won and that the weaker side would have resigned already. Well, it is true that the weaker side could have resigned in that position but that is irrelevant, you are asked to find the mate and not solve it by saying that the weaker side would have resigned in the given position already. If you do not like such positions, it is ok, I do not blame you. But what I tried to argue, fruitlessly in this case, is that no matter what the material difference is on the board if you are in a forced mate, it does not matter if the material is even or you have more material than your opponent or less material than your opponent, the position at the board is still lost. As I am person who does not judge the positions by the beauty aspect alone and want to play the best moves in any given position (mostly failing at it of course), I have added various positions that might not be beautiful as such but feature a mate that can be done in the amount of moves I have indicated against the most resistant defense. I will, whenever I can, post more positions that do not have too high material advantage in favor of the attacker in the future.
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