Despite of the fact that I have played some of the most horrible games lately at GameKnot that I have probably ever played there, somehow the games have mostly gone better than before. So, when I lose, it is because I played like a huge idiot but some of the wins show very good play from me, at least in my arrogant opinion. Feel free to disagree with that one. The game below is an example of one of those games where nothing seems to go my way and in a difficult position I ended up playing the mindless 25.Nc3... Which obviously resulted in my resignation after seeing dim_weasel's reply 25...Rxc3.
The game below was played in a five player mini-tournament called dim_weasel's XIV against the creator of the tournament. I am currently in last place with 1 point, which came from a win I got in one of the three games I have finished so far. Dim_weasel has not been able to do much better as he is currently in 4th place with 1.5 points. He has finished 5 games so far. A player called jug_head (2040) leads the tournament with a perfect score of 6 out of 6. If jug_head loses both of his remaining games and I win all my remaining games, I share the win of this mini-tournament with jug_head, but something tells me that it will not happen.
Apart from some small inaccuracies, both players play decent moves up to my move 14.Rac1, which turned out to be the starting point for my downfall in this game. The problem with this move is that after my opponent replies with 14...Nf5, he threatens two things, taking on d4 and playing Bh6 and due to the fact that my queen and rook are on the same diagonal is a problem. The move 14.Rac1 is because of those two things, just a waste of a move. I just aimlessly placed my rook on c1 in order to contest the open c-file without realising the problems attached to that move. These days I just try to play my correspondence chess games in a reasonable time, so I have started to decrease my response time to my opponents moves, but it occasionally results in really stupid moves. That being said, I have been able to get my ratings up again in nearly every site I play. In fact, I am currently at my peak rating of 1794 at GameKnot, for example. At Chess.com I have gone towards 1900 again, only missing 39 points from that and at RHP I am going towards my peak again, I am currently rated 1951 there and my peak there is 1967. At ChessRex I have also been able to get my rating to its peak almost every time I finish a game, but then again the opponents I have faced have not been able to take advantage of my horrible moves with the accuracy they have been able to do on other sites. The reason for that is that the average rating of people I face at ChessRex is lower than on other sites, at least at the moment anyway. I guess I should directly challenge higher rated players instead of just making an open challenge that anyone can take. I am playing 82 correspondence games at the moment, which is not a horrible amount, I can handle that amount of games quite well in my opinion, but I think I should get that game load as low as possible as fast as possible in order to have better time to do other things than chess related stuff.
Game number two. The game below was played on the first round of a tournament called EXPECT NO MERCY - NAZARETH TOUR!!! I am playing in group 7 and I am currently on 2nd place with 4 points. As I have also finished four games, I am doing really well at least for now. Only the winner of the group will advance to the next round and because I want to fight for the win of the tournament, I need to at least share the win of this group in order to advance to the second round. My opponent in this game, marcverkinderen, has only one game left to finish on this round and on this tournament and that game is against me. Marcverkinderen is on 4th place with 3 points.
This game started like B06 Robatsch (Modern) Defense which consists of the moves 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7, but then transitioned into this B27 Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl after the moves 3.Nf3 and c5 had been played. The theoretical move order for B27 Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl is 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 Bg7. The first move of the game that seems to be a clear mistake was 7...Bd7. The reason for this mysterious looking bishop move might be that my opponent has some problems of developing his knight from g8 and he wanted to play e6, followed by Ne7, but not when his bishop is on g4, because it might run out of squares. My opponent also does not want to trade the bisop to my knight, so the only option for him seems to be Bd7, but this is not such a good idea. With that move he moves the bishop for the second time in a row, making one of the moves just a waste of time. Some inaccurate moves later, the position seems to be about even again after 14.Bd1. With his 16th move, marcverkinderen gave me a chance to get a small advantage again, but I did not find a good enough move to get the advantage, but instead with 17.b3, the game became evenly fought again. My idea was to play Bc2 and maybe trade my bishop for the knight on f5. That is why I needed to play b3, so that my opponent could not take the pawn on b2 after I play Bc2. My opponent went for a risky play and played 17...O-O-O. I guess the idea behind that was that he can now push the kingside pawns and try to get weaknesses in front of my king faster than I can do anything on the queenside. That being said, with the move 17...O-O-O marcverkinderen puts his king on an open file, which can't be the safest location for the king. It was better to castle short. While 17...O-O-O might have been a bad move, marcverkinderen's next move was even worse and resulted in me taking the full point after a few more moves.
Statistics while controlling the white pieces: 1 Win (50%), 1 Loss (50%). Average opponent rating: 1659.
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