While the games I have lately shared are ones that have appeared in the blog before, I have mostly needed to do the commentary to the games completely from scratch due to the very lazy way I posted these games before. This is especially true with the games that were in the post called C64 Spanish Game: Classical Variation originally. So, all the games where it still says after the move 3...Bc5 Spanish Game: Classical Variation in the notation were in that post. This was played in a tournament called Roy Lopez Classical Tournament and it was held at Chess.com. The name of the tournament was misspelled already when the tournament director created this tournament by the way if anyone is interested to know. I played on group 9 on the first round and finished third, which was not enough to advance to the second round. I gathered 5.5 points in 10 games and the winner of the group gathered 7.5 points, so I was not even close to winning the group, even though I was the only one in the group that managed to get a positive result against the winner. I drew one game against DEEPERGRAY who won the group and the other I won, though only due to a timeout win. DEEPERGRAY went on to win the tournament, so congratulations to him!
The first moment of interest came to the board after my 7th move d4. NormanTaga played 7...exd4, which was a move that I would have likely played as well, had I controlled the black pieces. It is not, however, a good idea to open up the center when your own king is still there. Besides, it does not solve the problem with the central pawns. When White takes back with the c-pawn, the square c3 opens up for the knight, which is the most natural square for it. Indeed the move 7...Ba7 does not look promising either in view of 8.d5. That being said, the problem with the move 8.d5 does not go away with 7...exd4 because the player controlling the white pieces can capture on d4 with the c-pawn.
After the pawns were exchanged in the center, NormanTaga should have moved the bishop to a7. Instead my opponent went for the move 8...b5, which could have lost the game, had I been able to take full advantage of the mistake. This great start for the game should have meant an easy path to victory, but like the result of the game shows, I was able to mess this up. By the move 20...f5, my opponent had been able to make the game difficult for me to play. With my 21st move Qxd6 I went from being clearly better to being in a losing position.
NormanTaga played the obvious 21...Rg8 in reply and it became clear that I would be soon lost. I continued resisting the inevitable for a few moves, but I had to resign after 26...Qh3+ when I saw the forced mate.
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