I have not played against anyone rated over 2600 before this game, in correspondence chess that is. I have, however, played one blitz game over the board against a player of similar rating as my opponent in this game couple of years ago if I recall correctly. The game below was played at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club between December 26th 2015 and January 21st 2016. This game started to go a bit wrong for me around move 9.
I played 9...Na6 in the position above because I wanted to finish the development of my pieces as quickly as possible. I also thought that I could get my knight to c7 and it could be the best place for my knight. The whole idea of maneuvering the knight to c7 turned out to be a bad idea and it was the start of my downfall. After 12.e4 patoche was clearly better and did not give me any chance to get back into the game for the rest of the game.
I have lost most of my correspondence games recently and despite of the bad results, I have started more games again. I know I would be better off not starting more games and doing something else instead, but I can't seem to help it... I have now 120 games in progress and if I keep adding more and more, I could soon be back over 200+ games in progress which was very time consuming the last time I had that many games in progress. Lately though, I have just made moves and not cared that much about the result of the games. I mean I still want to win, but I am more accustomed to losing at this point and it has appeared in some of my games that everything goes in favor of my opponents, regardless of what I do. That is what I feel anyway. I did even resign one game after 8 moves because I thought that my opponent wins a piece by force. After I had resigned, I looked that position with the computer and it turned out that I resigned too quickly and I could have avoided the loss of the piece... The continuation was not even that hard to see, I just ended my thought process one move too early. I have added two mate in two, one mate in three and two mate in four puzzles today.
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