This game was played in a tournament called 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III and it is held at Red Hot Pawn. In this 21 player tournament there are still seven players that can win it and I am one of the lucky ones still included in the fight for the win. There is unfortunately large rating scale in this tournament as the lowest rated player is rated 881 at the moment and the highest rated player is rated 1938. Well, even if there is a huge rating difference between these two players, it does not mean that this tournament would be clear as to who wins and who will hold the last place at the end of the tournament. That is because there are also players close their rating who can make things more interesting. The game below is just one example of those huge rating differences in this tournament that are unfortunately occuring. I don't think games where there is this huge rating gap between players is all that beneficial to either player. Then again, accidents do happen and I think I lost to a player who was rated 800 or so points lower rated than me because I missed the mate in one threat he did...
This game deviated from the games that I have previously seen in my games when my opponent played 3...f6. The other two tries in that position were in the previous games 3...h6 and 3...Bg4. The latter option is better than 3...h6 or the move jayvi tried in this game, 3...f6, but the best option for Black might be 3...exd4. The third move of my opponent already gave me a clear advantage. In the position below my opponent played 4...Ne7, which could have been the losing move.
I replied with the inccurate move 5.O-O and while it was not the best move, I still remained on the clearly better side of the board. The best reply was 5.dxe5. Jayvi's position continued to go downhill with the move 5...d5, after which the game is quite lost for my opponent. The game did not last long after this and my opponent resigned after my 10th move Nd4.
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