The game below was played in a team match called GREECE_LOVERS vs Alexander Grischuk Chess Club. There is only game left in this match consisting of 25 boards and that is my other game against celeron. That last game does not matter as far as the match is concerned because the winner of the match has already been decided. The score in the match is 16.5 - 32.5 in favor of Alexander Grischuk Chess Club. Which is a bit unfortunate for me and the team I represent in this match, because I play on board 3 for GREECE_LOVERS.
Even though I mainly start my games with 1.e4, when I am contolling the white pieces, for some reason I decided to go for 1.c4 this time. I guess I needed a bit of a change because my rating had been slowly, but steadily going down and I had to try something else. Obviously it did not work against my higher rated opponent and I dropped my rating to 1802. The last time I had my rating this low was in the latter part of 2014. Then my rating was actually going up. I still have not dropped my rating below 1800 and I actually am slowly climbing back up again. While I suffered a lot of terrible games in a row at Chess.com, at Red Hot Pawn I have been actually improving a bit. For awhile now I have been able to maintain a 1900+ rating at Red Hot Pawn and my current rating there is 1920, only 15 points away from my peak rating there. At Chess.com I hit my peak rating in Daily chess in January, 2009. Actually I am not sure if I can break that record anymore unless I find some time to improve tactics and my play in the endgame. I think I would desperately need that, especially since in recent games I have struggled quite a bit in both areas.
This game went without any major mistakes until I played 25.Ng2. At this point in the game I was not sure what my plan should be and I chose rather poorly. I wanted to reroute my knight to c6 and maybe to e5 later on. I thought that my knight would be better placed in either of those squares than on f4. Obviously my plan would take a long time, but I did not think of anything better, so I went along with that plan. I should have played 25.h4 instead. After the move played in the game, I am slightly worse. 29.Na3 is probably the losing move, after that there is no real possibility for a draw anymore. I think celeron accurately takes advantage of my mistakes and does not give me any counterplay opportunities in the remaining moves. Happy International Women's Day!!
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