Last year ended with me posting a loss of mine and the new year starts with a loss, so it kind of tells you how my games have been going lately. The game below was played in a team match called Russia Central Federal District vs DORU-66 & HIS BEST FRIENDS. It is played on 78 boards and I am playing on board 21 for DORU-66 & HIS BEST FRIENDS. The current score in the match is 59 - 57 in favor of Russia Central Federal District. This has been quite even match, but the balance has shifted in favor of Russia Central Federal District for the most of the match. Unfortunately I have been one of the weakest links in our team in this match and my other game against igrinyuk does not look that good, so this might be a bit disappointing performance from me again.
I think my tactical blindness is a major weakness that I need to get rid of. I missed some easy tactics in this game, like on move 16 I should have played Rxd4, which would have been much better than the move I played in the game. Then on move 24 I made a huge blunder because I completely missed that my opponent can take on g6 and no matter how I reply to that I am lost. Basically I lost this game because of one serious oversight. It is annoying to lose games like this, but at the moment I am just not tactically alert enough to see all the possibilities in a position. I have done more tactical training in the last month than maybe in years, however it is not saying much because I did not do almost any tactical training in several years. In order for me to get my rating back to where I like to see it, I really need to get my tactical awareness to a point where I can see most tactics, because it may be unrealistic to think that I would see all the tactical possibilities all the time.
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