This game 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 two games left to finish and if I were to lose both of those games, I would have lost all of my games in this third round. Already this round has been really bad for me but it would be a disaster if I could not get a single point in this round. The battle for the win of the tournament is between Paullli (2068) and Rumdrum (1954), both have currently 9 points and their maximum possible score is 18. I have one game left to play against both these leading players, so even though I can't win anymore, I can at least have an affect on who wins the tournament. I have added one mate in one, one mate in two, two mate in five and one mate in seven puzzle today. I have also added one analysed game to my post D37 Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation. General. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts!
The comments to this game starting with this paragraph have been added December 31st, 2016. In the game below I started to go wrong with the move 9...Bg6? and I should have instead played 9...Ne4. The position in which I played my 9th move can be seen below. The problem with the game move is that it allows chessicle to double my pawns.
I did get a chance to hang on in the game a few moves later when chessicle played 12.e4 in the position below. 12.O-O and 12.cxd5 were better alternatives for chessicle. Unfortunately for me, I replied to the move played in the game by playing 12...dxe4 and I was in some trouble once again. 12...Nxe4 was my best option and I would have been only slightly worse. In the game continuation I was clearly worse. Immediately chessicle took another inaccurate step and allowed me to get back into the game again with the move 13.Nxe4.
I was not able to maintain the game rather evenly fought for very long and when I made my 17th move in the position below, I took another step towards bigger problems. I castled long when I should have castled short. Chessicle was not able to find the strongest move 18.Kb1 and played 18.Qc3 instead.
I did hang on in the game for a few more moves, before I messed up once again with the move 22...Rd5?? The position where I played it can be seen below. My reluctance to take on c5 with the pawn was due to my need to keep my pawn structure in the best possible shape. Again chessicle played a rather sloppy move, this time it was 23.cxb6, which lost most of the advantage that my opponent had. With the move 23.Qa3 Stockfish thinks that chessicle had an advantage of around 1.5 pawns, but after the move 23.cxb6 the advantage drops to around 0.5 pawns.
I then took back with my a-pawn and chessicle replied with 24.Rc1. It would have been a tough struggle, but I might have been able to get a draw, had I not played 24...Kb7. I then was lost without hope of recovering. I continued playing moves for awhile, but when I saw the forced mate after 30.Rc7+, I resigned.
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