This game is one of the many games that I have messed up lately. This game was played in a team match called Friendly match. It was played between ИШК ПАРТИЗАН and Chess School. I was playing on board 3 for Chess School in this match and unfortunately I was not in my best form. The match was played on eight boards and the match ended with a score 3.5 - 12.5 in favor of Chess School. Luckily my teammates were in better shape than I was.
I would like to show the position after 7.d4 because it was in this position that I made the blunder, 7...exd4, which gave my opponent a clear advantage. A better option for me would have been to play 7...Nxd4.
SojicSrecko blundered immediately with the move 8.Nxd4 and gave me a chance to get a winning advantage. I did not find the best reply 8...Nxd4, but instead moved my knight to a5 and gave the advantage to my opponent. SojicSrecko continued after that quite accurately and did not allow me to get back into the game again.
Game number two. This was played in a team match called LITHIUM. It was played between GRUNGE and The Night's Watch at Castle Black on 24 boards. I played on board 4 for The Night's Watch at Castle Black. I won both of my games in this match against tedy7 and in both of them my opponent lost on time. The game below was winning for me anyway but the other one ended in the opening phase where nothing had been decided yet. The score after the match was 29 - 19 in favor of GRUNGE, so they took a clear win out of this match.
This game followed the unfortunate path that was seen on game one in this post up to the move 8.Nxd4. I should have, of course, deviated on move 7. Actually, this game started a bit earlier than game number one, so it was in that game that I should have learned from my mistake. I played 8...Bb7 in this game, which was actually better than the blunder 8...Na5 I played on the game against SojicSrecko. My 8th move was far from the best one, because 8...Nxd4 would have given me a winning advantage. The move I played in the game was only good enough for a slightly worse position. In the position after I played 8...Bb7 my opponent played 9.Re1. You can see the position in which 9.Re1 was played below.
The game could have continued clearly in my favor, had I played 9...Nxd4, but I blundered with the move 9...Be7 instead. The game continued evenly with the moves 10.Nxc6 Bxc6 and then tedy7 took another wrong turn and played 11.e5. Tedy7's 11th move sacrificed a pawn because after 11...dxe5 tedy7 can't take the pawn back without allowing a back-rank mate. The next position of interest can be seen below. The diagram shows the position after 14...axb5.
Tedy7 played 15.Nc3, which is not a move that the engine likes. I replied with the move 15...O-O, which still seems the most natural move for me to make even now. However, the move 15...Nc5, which is suggested by the engine, seems to be also an interesting idea. The game continued in my favor, but it was only with the move 16.f4 when I got the opportunity to take the winning advantage.
I played some sloppy moves and in the position below I played 19...Bd6, giving away what was left of my advantage. In reply tedy7 made a huge mistake and moved the knight to e4. In order to continue the game evenly, it was necessary for tedy7 to play 20.Be7. I answered the huge mistake by playing 20...Bb4, which allows my opponent to hang on in the game.
Tedy7 was not able to find the most accurate move and played 21.Re2 and the position looked a bit brighter for me once again. It still was not the final downhill, however, because I made things harder for me again in the position you can see below. In this position I played 27...Bd6, which is only good enough for a small advantage.
Tedy7 replied with 28.Bd4 and it was the point at which started the downfall of my opponent. The remainder of the game went clearly in my favor despite some of the inaccurate moves I made.
Game number three. This game was played in a team match called "GALACTIC MATCH 2 (for 1-250 members team)". The match was played on 25 boards between La Belle France and BULGARIA. I played on board 5 for La Belle France and in addition to this win I lost my other game against paci-golfa. The final result of the match was 35.5 - 14.5 in favor of La Belle France.
This game followed the first and second games in this post up to the move 8.Nxd4. I do not know if I ever get rid of the bad habit of taking on d4 with the pawn on move 7, but it seems I have improved my 8th move over time. In the first game I played the horrible 8...Na5, then on game two I played 8...Bb7. Actually, the game number two started a few days earlier than game number one in this post, so it is likely that I actually made the way I play a lot worse when I reached the position after 8.Nxd4 for the second time. The third appearance of that position over a year later in the game below I was able to play the strongest reply to 8.Nxd4. In the position below my opponent had just played 8.Nxd4 to which I replied with the move 8...Nxd4 and the game should be easy to win after that.
While the moves 7...exd4 and 8.Nxd4 are horrible, the first move that had not been played before in my reference database was 12...Bb7. It is not only me that has played this opening in a really awful way. The reason why the move 8.Nxd4 is so bad can be seen clearly in the game continuation 8...Nxd4 9.Qxd4 c5 10.Qd3 c4 and the light-squared bishop is trapped. After this material gain the game was easy for me to play and I never allowed my opponent to get back into the game again.
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