The game below was played in a team match called Active Turn-Based Tournament Players vs The Bobby Fischer Group. There is an extra The in front of the Bobby Fischer Group, but otherwise the team names were correct in the name of the match. I played on board 15 for Active Turn-Based Tournament Players and in addition to this loss, I won my other game against Retsam100, against whom I have played 4 games at Chess.com. I have been able to get 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in those four games. The match consists of 61 boards and the current score in the match is 77 - 36 in favor of Active Turn-Based Tournament Players. We have secured the win quite clearly, but then again we were able to have higher rated players on most boards, so it is not that surprising.
Another variation of the King's Gambit and bad results stay the same, I lose more often than not. I thought I would try 3...d5 for the first time in this game instead of the more common reply from me 3...d6, which would signify the opening as C34 King's Gambit Accepted, Fischer Defense. Maybe it would have been more appropriate to play the Fischer Defense, considering our opponent in this match. Since this was my first game in this line, I was not at all certain how to best develop my pieces. I did play 4...Nc6, but it seemed during the game that it was not a good choice because the pin by the bishop later on became quite annoying. I guess I could have gone for the greedy 4...g5, but I have tried to play against the different varitions of the King's Gambit in a less greedy and more solid way, so I did not go for that. However, it may have been the best option. The move 4...Nc6 is also a decent move, but my 5th move is maybe not so good anymore. I probably should have played 5...g5 and not give that f4 pawn so easily. I am not so confident that the best square for my bishop is on g4, I may need it to go to d7 later on. During the game, the move Bg4 looked like a good move and I wanted to get myself castled as soon as possible to the queenside. After 6.c3, I should have definitely replied with 6...f6, but such a move I did not even consider because it is usually a bad idea to open the center while your king is on the center. When Retsam100 played 8.Bb5, I started to consider moves like e6, followed by Ne5 for my opponent and therefore traded my bishop to the knight. The idea that I was thinking was not going to happen anytime soon, so I may have traded off those pieces a bit too early, especially since that trade seemed to only benefit my opponent...
After 9.Qxf3, I quickly ran into trouble. The move I chose in reply was the starting point of my final downhill in this game. I did my best to hold the position and the material balance, but after 19.h3, I just could not think of any useful moves and played the horrible 19...Bxf6, which loses a pawn from d5 because my opponent took back with a pawn, which kicked my knight that defended that pawn away. Maybe I could have played 19...h5, 19...Kb8 or something and just waited what my opponent does. Those two moves probably would have kept the material balance and the possibility of me turning things around alive. I guess the reason why I played Bxf6 was that I wanted to reroute my knight from e7 via f5 to d6. The idea might have been bad, but atleast I got my knight to a better square or so I thought anyway. However, it was not worth it to get my knight there and lose that pawn in the process. Then again after 21.Qxd5, I could have played 21...Nxb4 and I might have been able to hold that position. I traded queens instead and after that the game was pretty much over, I was only able to make my position even worse by playing 23...Nd6 and allowed 24.Ne7+. I maybe should have resigned around that point, but I wanted to see a few more moves and maybe come up with some counterplay. I was not able to do so as my opponent played well and I had to accept that my resistance was futile after 36.Re5 was played.
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