This is once again a game that was previously shared in the blog and where the name of the opening has been corrected. I have also added some commentary to this post that did not accompany the originally shared game. The game below was played in the first round of the 2014 October Glacial Super Casual Banded I 1650+ tournament that is held at Red Hot Pawn. In this game I got completely outplayed by my opponent. It is quite rare that I lose this fast these days but I guess when I face players who have much better understanding of chess than I do, these losses seem to happen even now. Well, actually I think the reason for me losing these types of games is that I am put into unfamiliar positions, where I just do not seem to find the correct way to do things. At this point in the tournament I still have theoretical chances to win the first round group but those chances are not as good as they are with three other players. This is because my maximum possible score is the fourth highest in group 1 at the moment. I even have a higher maximum possible score than jankrb, the player who I faced in this game and who is also the highest rated player in the group. The leader of group 1 is a player called takinitez007 (1882), in second place is caissad4 (1994) and jankrb (2151) is currently on third place. I am on 9th place at the moment, one reason for that is that my games do not progress all that fast.
The first real mistake of the game was played by my opponent in the diagram position below. The move 4.f4 that jankrb played, was perhaps designed to bring some aggression towards the pawn on e5 and with the idea of improving the scope of the bishop on b2. At first glance it would seem that I can't really take the pawn on f4, because it would be replied with Bxg7 and my rook on h8 would be doomed. That being said, I should have taken the pawn on f4. Had jankrb replied with 5.Bxg7, then I could have played 5...Qh4+ and jankrb would have been in serious trouble.
I played 4...Qe7, which is the safe move and it is only good enough for an equal position. In the next diagram position I moved my pawn from c7 to c6. It was a novelty and a very bad one at that. The reason why 6...c6 was so bad that it made the development of my pieces very difficult, especially when I hung on to the material. The game went quickly downhill for me from that point on.
Jankrb was able to take advantage of my mistake and did not allow me to get back into the game again. The only way to punish me from my mistake was to play 7.cxd5 and had I understood the danger in the position, I would have played 7...Ngf6 in reply and sacrificed a pawn. However, I mostly try to keep the material balance in my games and very rarely do I sacrifice material, even if it would give me an easier way to develop my pieces. I continued to play the game until my opponent played 16.Qc3, at which point I thought I had enough and resigned. In that final position I would either lose too much material or get mated.
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