The game below was played as unrated 10 minute game at lichess.org today. This indeed was a casual game in many ways because this has been the only game for many years where my opponent has asked to take back a move. I actually did allow that takeback because it was really bad move and quite obvious misclick. Had the game been rated, I would have thought about granting that takeback maybe a bit more. The game went ok for me until I ended up playing the silly mistake 3.Nd3 which loses a pawn on d4. On move 9 my opponent blundered by playing a4 and I was able to get the pawn back with 10.Nc5. The takeback move came when my opponent first played 16...Qb5 and after I allowed the takeback traded the queens. It was something that I was ok with because I had thought about it before the takeback and considered it bad for my opponent. The idea was that after the queens are traded, I play my knight on d3 and then play Bxc6. My opponent allowed me to take on b4 without needing to trade my bishop for the knight, so on move 19 I already was up a pawn and had an easy game to play. Two moves later I was two pawns up and my opponent seemed to sacrifice pawns for no good reason in my opinion. The rest of the game did not pose any real problems and I was able to play the moves without much thought. I have added two mate in two, two mate in three and one mate in four puzzle today. Until Monday, when I may get back to posting also analysed chess games again.
The blog features analysed games of mine, consisting of chess, chess960 and 3 check. There are also puzzles that you can solve by moving the pieces on the board and the solution can be checked by using the engine provided by the ChessBase's publishing tool. All games and puzzles can be downloaded for free!
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