The game below is the 1000th analysed chess game to appear in this blog!! It has taken me a bit over a year to reach this milestone but it might very well be that the 2000th game will be added less than a year from now. I think it is at the moment realistic assumption because even though I do not make post everyday anymore, the amount of games that I do post per day is very likely to increase the longer this blog exists. Of those 1000 games I have won 630 (63%), drawn 87 (8.7%) and lost 283 (28.3 %). Those games have featured 411 different opening variations and there are still more to go. The variation that has the most games is still A20 English Opening: King's English Variation. General (30 games 3%) and it may be like that for quite some time, though other variations are catching up a bit. The reason why it has the most games is that when those games were played, I knew almost nothing of opening theory and playing 1.c4 in my first move with White was my favorite for several years. These days I do not play it all that often, there are some opponents however, against whom I have still occasionally played it. Second and third most common openings are C45 Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (23 games 2.3%) and C64 Spanish Game: Classical Variation (22 games 2.2%). So learning one particular line of theory would not help me all that much because I face the same openings so rarely. Then again I rarely face the same opponents which might contribute to the diversity of the openings. There are still maybe ten people who I have played hundreds of games against, but only three of those I have several hundred recorded games as well.
The game below is the 37th game in the 100 game match between me and a friend of mine, against whom I have played most over the board and online games or that is my assumption anyway because I do not have exact statistics of all the games I have ever played. With this win, Tomi was able to decrease my lead in the match to five points and the score after these 37 games was 21 - 16.
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