The game below was played in a team match called The Simpsons New Match. It was played between "SIMPSONS" and Chess Champ. I played on board 7 for Chess Champ and won both my games. This match was played on 50 boards and the match ended with a score 45 - 55 in favor of Chess Champ. There was quite many timeouts in this match which was unfortunate but maybe in a team match of this size it can't be avoided.
Like so many times before in my games, the player who first got the chance to get a winning advantage was not the one who ended up winning the game. Nothing all that dire happened to either player until I moved my knight to b7 on move 15. Had my opponent followed it up with 16.Bb5, Ruferto1944 might have been on his way to victory.
Ruferto1944 played 16.c6, which allowed my knight to land on a good square d6 in my reply. The move 16.c6 was bad because it hindered the options of my opponent to gain an advantage and allowed me to improve the position of my knight. The game continued with the moves 17.f3 Kh8 and then Ruferto1944 played 18.g4, which was the start of my opponent's downfall.
I found the best reply 18...Ng8 and then Ruferto1944 played the game losing blunder 19.e4. Moving the pawn to e4 loses material by force. I was able to see the material winning simple combination 19...Bxc3 20.Bxc3 dxe4. The remainder of the game my technique to win the game was reasonably good, apart from 22...Nf6, which gave more chances for my opponent to hold the game, which he was unable to do.
Game number two. This was my sixth consecutive challenge game at the FIDE Online Arena and even after this I had not lost a single one! I won four and drew two games in that six game period. The game featured only small mistakes for the first 16 moves, but the combined effort of them only added up to clear advantage for my opponent when I played 16...Qf6.
Had my opponent responded with 17.Rc1, the game would have continued to be clearly favorable for arkuntolga. My opponent played 17.Bb5 in the game and position should be about even. The move 17.Bb5 allowed me to win a pawn by playing 17...Bxc5, because after 18.dxc5 I will take on b2 with my queen. However, arkuntolga should be fully compensated for the pawn. My opponent needed to take on c5 in order to keep the position even, other moves led into trouble, like the move 18.Bxc6 that my opponent played in the game. Taking on c6 was a horrible blunder because I could have replied with 18...Bd6+, save my bishop and then take on c6. Unfortunately I did not play the in-between move, but instead took on c6 immediately and the position was even once again. For some reason my opponent did not want to take on c5, but moved his or her knight to e5 instead. It gave me another opportunity to move my bishop to d6 and obtain a clear advantage and this time I used my chance. Everything looked good to me until I played 32...g6 and the game quickly ended in a draw.
The move 32...g6 missed the perpetual check that my opponent was able to deliver.
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