Chess960 SP202

This is my third game from the Chess960 pool and this time I concentrated on the game and did not try to do any commentary while I played. It had one positive effect, I did not lose on time, yay. Not sure if my game improved all that much though and I was on losing position when my opponent ran out of time. I think I will try a couple of other places to play chess960 for the next posts about chess960 that I will make. The goal is to play longer games than I get easily at the Internet Chess Club and faster ones that I can play at Chess.com because there I can easily play chess960 only as a correspondence game. Maybe it will change in the future, but if it means that they have to adapt the look of the new version of the site, I might just stop playing there altogether. Well, I may be a bit too harh on it, but I prefer the older version. It might be because I am accustomed to the old version and it would take some time to adapt to the new version.

I was never on the better side in this game, well maybe at one point I could have gotten some advantage, but I was unable to play accurately, partly due to time trouble and partly because I had no clear plan on how to proceed. After the missed opportunity for some kind of advantage an evenish position continued until I blundered in time trouble and played 38.Qd4? which lost the b5 pawn and should have also lost the game if my opponent had more time. I have added one analysed game to the following posts today: B18 Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation, C69 Spanish Game: Exchange Variation. Gligoric Variation, B12 Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation and E16 Queen's Indian Defense: Capablanca Variation. I have also added one mate in two, two mate in four and two mate in five puzzles today. There will be more chess960 later this week, but not every day.