This was played on the third round of a close chess tournament that was played at Helsinki in January 2006. In the first two rounds of this tournament, I had already lost two games and this game continued on in that grim path. That path did not end here and I actually lost the fourth round game as well. Only on the fifth and final round did I manage to get a win under my belt. Of course that was too late to make the tournament a good one for me and I indeed lost a lot of rating points as a result. The only thing that kept my rating plummeting faster, was the fact that four of my five opponents were higher rated than me. Not only did the year 2006 start very poorly for me, but it also continued in that same downward path the whole year and I think this was the worst chess year of my life, so far anyway... Whenever I have played well in over the board tournaments, I have been able to fully concentrate on the games, but when things happen outside the board that are constantly diverting my thoughts away from the game, it clearly shows in the results of the games.
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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