The games from Red Hot Pawn keep featuring opening variations that I have not previously covered in the blog, but as I have almost catched up to my latest finished game from RHP, games from other sites will take the center stage for awhile. Due to the fact that our ratings were so close at the time this draw was agreed upon, it did not have any effect on my rating. I have finished only one game after this at Red Hot Pawn and it was also a draw, but that did have a positive effect on my rating, though by only 3 points. That means my new peak rating at Red Hot Pawn is 1967!! While on other sites I struggle to even keep my rating where it is, at RHP I have had a really good streak of games lately. The lowest my rating has been during the past 90 days is 1851 and because that was my rating close to the start of that 90 days, the time period after that has been mostly been spent increasing the rating.
This game was played on the first round of the 2015 October Grand Split Three Seven I 1800+ tournament. I have finished 22 of the 28 games that started with this tournament and I have gathered 39 points in those games so far. Red cloud has finished 24 games and has gathered 50 points so far. Red cloud is currently on 4th place while I am on 6th place. Even though I can still theoretically get more points than red cloud, it is unlikely because I would probably need to win all my remaining games and red cloud could only win two of the four remaining games. As I have not looked at the positions in red cloud's games, I have no idea what the result of those games should be. Even if red cloud would lose all of those remaining games, it would not be at all certain that I would overtake him or her in the standings because it would still require a good result from me in my remaining games. However, it is no longer all that important to me where I am in the final standings of the group because I can't advance to the next round anymore. Despite of that I will obviously play the remaining games as well as I can.
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