As I have tried to give as much time as possible for changing the game replayers from Chessbase and pgn4web to Chess.com's, I have not shared as many games this week as I could have otherwise done. Unfortunately other things have also taken my time away from making the updates, so the time I would have otherwise had, I was forced to use on other things than the updates. I should be able to get more updating done soon as I do not have similar things taking my time away as in the past few days. I can't give an estimate at this point how long it will take to make the necessary chances, but I will do them as quickly as I can. The games are not actually published in order they have finished for awhile, which is a bit annoying for me, but also necessary action in my opinion, in order to publish new opening variations and new starting positions from chess960. Well, in the order they are in my databases I should say, because the over the board games especially will not be published necessarily in order they have finished.
The game below is my last game from round one of the 2014 October Glacial Super Casual Banded I 1650+ tournament that is played at Red Hot Pawn. This game is definetely one of the longest games I have ever played and it unfortunately ended in my loss. I think caissad4 offered me a draw at some point and now I am obviously disappointed in myself because I foolishly thought I could win this game and did not accept the draw. This game was created November 3rd, 2014 and it finished on May 8th, 2016. This is not even going to be the longest game I have ever played, because I have one other game in progress that started in 2014 that at the moment seems to take several more months with the pace it has gone lately.
I finished on 4th place in group 1 with 40 points. The maximum possible score was 66. My opponent in this game, caissad4, has currently 51 points and can get to 54 points in case he or she wins his or her last game. Caissad4 is currently on third place in the standings, but can get to 2nd place with a win in that last game. The basic time for each move was 21 days and there was 21 days in the bank, which meant that this was the tournament with the longest time controls I have ever played with. Even though the first round is still in progress, the second and final round has also started. This is possible because the winners of both groups were decided already some time ago and in the tournaments at Red Hot Pawn, winners will advance to the next round as soon as the winners of all groups have been decided.
The first move that went off from the normal development of pieces was in my opinion when caissad4 played 6.Ne5. I would have probably played 6.Bf4, 6.Bg5 or 6.Nc3, had I been controlling the White pieces. 6.Ne5 does open up the long diagonal for the fianchettoed bishop and it discourages me to play Nc6. The symmetrical nature of the game reintroduced itself after 10.Nxe5. While 5 moves earlier it was me who went for the symmetry, this time it was me who broke it. Well, I tried but caissad4 went back to the symmetry with 11.Nd3. On move 12, caissad4's plan started to be different from me again and I admit that caissad4 did have a better plan than I did. I think my opponent was able to get a better position than me, but on move 19, when caissad4 played Nf2 and allowed me to play e5, I think it gave me some play. I even thought that the central pawns could get weak, but caissad4 was able to adequately defend them. After 21.cxd4, I thought that due to my better pawn structure and the possibility to harass the central pawns, I would be in the better side of the board and due to that I did not accept the draw offer that caissad4 send me close to this point in the game. Sometimes when I have declined a draw offer, I start to play for the win more, which might make me do riskier than usual moves. One of those moves might be 35...c5, which really should not have worked. The game continuation actually went like I had thought and I assumed I should be on the slightly better side after Bxb2. I did lose the game due to a big judgement error when I played 48...Kg8 instead of 48...Kf6, which would have held the draw. I thought that I need to protect the h7-pawn, but by doing so I lost the game. I have added one mate in one, two mate in two and two mate in three puzzles today.
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