I started playing at GameKnot again near the end of last year. The game below is the first game that ended after my comeback to the site. This was played in the atadros's mini-tournament V. There are 11 players in this tournament. The number of simultaneous games is limited to four games at the same time. Therefore it will take quite awhile to play all the 20 games. It is one of the aspects of these mini-tournaments that I do not like that much. I could play all the games at the same time and finish games much quicker. This mini-tournament is called high-stakes tournament because the tournament entry cost is higher than normal, but it also rewards more points. The time control for these games is 3 days at the start and it has a 1 day increment. The increment is limited, so that you can have maximum of 5 days to think about your next move. I am currently on 9th place, but a lot can still change as I have only finished one game. I am the lowest rated player in the tournament, so unless I can outperform higher rated players, my place in the final standings might not be that high.
The game below went very wrong quite fast because I faced moves that I have not faced before that really messed up my thinking during the game. It is true that I placed my bishop also into a square where I have not usually played it to when I played 6.Bd3. I may have faced a position that I am more use to had I played 6.Be2 instead. The game continuation after that went into a strange path and already on move 10 I went wrong a bit. I played the losing move of the game on move 14. I played bxa5 because I thought that if I play Bb2 or something else than bxa5, I will lose more than a pawn. I thought that if I take the knight on a5, I will only lose a pawn. I was of course wrong and had to resign after 15...Ne5.
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