This game was formerly seen in the post C50 Italian Game: Hungarian Defense. Static positions have been changed into living diagrams. The rest of the post was typed when I added this game to that older post. This game was played in the first round of the 2014 October Long Haul Split I tournament that is held at Red Hot Pawn. This is maybe one of the rare good games from me that have recently finished at RHP because I have plummeted my rating over 100 points in the last 90 days there. Out of the last 10 games, I have lost 7, drawn one and won only two. It is by far the worst streak of games that I have ever had there, so to avoid even bigger catastrophe, I have to focus on the games better than I have lately. I may have lost some of the will to win that I had earlier in these games and now I am more keen on finishing these games as fast as possible. I am playing on group 2 with eleven other players and I am currently in fifth place with 37 points but because my games are slower paced than other players' games, my maximum possible score is still the highest in the group. A player called beatlemania (1787) leads the group and has gathered 48 points so far. The second place belongs to a player called Blackpoolmad (1538), who has gathered 43 points so far, bliher (1750) is on third place and has gathered 41 points and Marko Krale (1594) holds fourth place with 38 points.
My opponent in this game, blither, started to go wrong on move six, but it was on move eight that blither's move gave me a clear advantage for the first time. The position where my opponent played 8...Qd7 can be seen below.
I could have won a pawn on move 9, had I played 9.Qxb7, but I thought that 9.Ng5 is even better. It was not as good as I had thought. In the game continuation blither played 9...Nd8, which defended both the pawn on e6 and the pawn on b7. After that the position was roughly even. The next step in the wrong direction was taken by my opponent in the position below. Blither played 10...c6 and could have been in some trouble again.
I played the inaccurate 11.Nd2 in reply and let my opponent off the hook. The best reply would have been 11.dxe5, which was the only move to get a clear advantage. Luckily for me, blither took another wrong step by playing 11...O-O, which allowed me to play 12.dxe5. I did end up playing it in the game and things looked going well for me. The game continued with the moves 12...Ng4 13.Ngf3 and then blither played 13...d5, after which I was already close to a winning advantage. The game started go towards a draw once again for a moment when I played 21.Rad1 in the position below.
However, some inaccuracies earlier had made it so that it was not clear if I had a clear or small advantage. The advantage came more clearly in my favor, when blither blundered by playing 27...Bc5 in the position below.
The game did not last long, blither resigned after 33...Rg7, when my opponent faced a forced mate. No matter what blither would have played in reply, I could have ended the game by checkmating my opponent on my next move.
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