This is one of those games that could have ended in a rather embarrassing way for me... For one move only I offered the win for my opponent, this I only realized in the after game analysis. I have no idea anymore why I played 32.Qd3?? as that move should have lost the game as my opponent just takes the rook on a1 with a check, oops... Luckily my opponent did not take it but if he had, I would have probably just resigned immediately. If I would at least bother to check the situation and look at the whole board, I would not make these awful moves again. I guess it is due to the huge confidence I have in my chess playing abilities that I think I only need to look only part of the board as I should have enough experience by now to see quite quickly what is important in a position. Of course that could not be more wrong, I am still far, far away from the level of play where I could do that. This game was played in a tournament called 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen II. Maybe I need to fit some tactics training to my daily schedule and maybe see if that helps, maybe also go outside for a walk more to get some fresh air... ;-)
The second game below was played in the first round of a Ruy Lopez tournament held at Chess.com. This has been so far one of my best tournaments there because I have won all the 15 games that have finished. There are seven games left for me to finish in this first round. I am currently in third place with 15 points or should I say I am a shared leader of the group #1, because all the top three players have 15 points. The only reason I am in third place is because my tie break is worse than those that the first two players have. The three best players of each group will advance to the second round and even though it seems at the moment that I am likely to advance to the next round, it is still not all that certain. If I were to lose all my remaining games, I would not be able to advance from this group. The opponent I faced in this game, djsniper800, is the current leader of our group and he has four games left to finish. The second place holder is a player called bzalasky and he has only two games left to finish.
4...a6 is a novelty in my games, but it is not a novelty in my reference database. It is a bad move and it should give me a clear advantage. The reason for my advantage is that I can play 5.Bxc6, like I did in the game. The move 5.Bxc6 destroyed my opponent's pawn structure and I also won a pawn. My opponent never recovered from this early blunder and I ended up winning the game after the move 28.Rb1 because my opponent resigned. At that point I was up the exchange and a pawn.
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