The last post of the week features a game played over nine years ago, on the first round of a weekend tournament that was held at Salo. I played in group D at the time, due to the fact that the year 2006 meant a downhill for my rating everytime I played chess over the board. This tournament was not the much needed exception for the rule. This was already the second loss in the tournament and it did not get much better on the following rounds either, I lost the third round game, then somehow managed to win on round four and the fifth round brought me the most familiar result of the year again, a loss. I had started the year with a rating of 1760 and after this tournament my rating had already dropped to 1522. Unfortunately this was not even the last time of the year that I went to play over the board chess, I had to play one more team match later on in the year, which I of course lost and dropped my rating to 1514. At that time I decided I had to stop playing over the board games for a long time. It took me about nine months before I was ready to play over the board chess again. The break had done me good and I was able to get a positive score again.
Before I get too distracted from this game and type more things that are unrelated to it, I think I need to focus again on the game below. The move order in theory differs slightly from the move order used in the game and the theoretical move order is 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nc3. I played the first mistake of the game on move 9. Instead of Qd7, I should have either castled or played 9...c6. This one mistake was the starting point for the things to come. My position just got worse and worse over time and my opponent finished the game quite nicely with 20.Bxh6. After that I saw the forced mate and therefore I resigned. Until Monday, my fellow chess and chess960 enthusiasts!
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