The game below was played in a team match called 2015.08.28 ~~~ TCP - * The WOLF *. It was played on 31 boards between TURK CHESS PLAYERS and * The WOLF *. I played on board 3 for * The WOLF *. I was not able to help the team with any points, which was a disappointment for me. The match ended with a score of 36 - 26 in favor of TURK CHESS PLAYERS. I have thought about taking some time off completely from correspondence games for quite some time now, but unfortunately that might not happen so easily any time soon, due to the very long time controls of some games. Well, the easy way would be just to resign all my current games, but that is something I will never do, because I think I should play the games up to the deciding point.
On my 14th move I played Nd1, which is a rather odd move, the reason behind the move is lost to me after all this time. No matter what it was, it was a poor decision. The knight was already rather well placed and it would be a really slow process to get it somewhere better. The knight move weakened my control over d5, but even if I had not moved my knight, my opponent would have likely been able to play d5 anyway.
Dekara replied with 14...d5, which was the best answer to my silly knight retreat. Already I was in huge trouble, but not maybe lost until my 17th move Bg3. It may seem like a good idea to pin the knight, but it also left the knight on d4 undefended. The knight did not have good squares to go to from d4 if attacked and my opponent might have been able to make use of that fact to his or her advantage.
Dekara got out of the pin by taking the bishop on e2 with a check. It was not the best idea because with accurate play I was able to get back into the game, at least for a few moves. The game looked like it would be heading for a draw until it was time for me to blunder again and play 27.Nd3. I am not sure why I did not just trade the knights. Maybe I thought that the knight on e4 is not really doing anything important there and maybe it is just in the way of my opponent's other pieces, like the bishop and the queen.
Dekara should have replied with the annoying pin 27...Qb6, but instead my opponent moved the rook from a8 to e8. It is actually more dangerous looking move to me than what the chess engine suggests, but actually it is only dangerous if it is not met with the move 28.Nc2. All other moves seem to lead to a more or less lost position for White. I played the horrible 28.Nf4, which allowed dekara to pin the knight, which my opponent did and my possibilities of holding the game seemed to evaporate. The game continued with the moves 29.Rfe1 Nf6 and the 29th move by dekara was a mistake that gave me another chance to survive.
How could have I missed such a simple move like moving the queen to f2 is rather unbelievable, but somehow I was just more concerned of not letting the knight to jump to g4 and played h3 (The queen move would have solved the problem with Ng4 too...). Dekara then played the sloppy 30...Re4, which did give me my last chance to maybe fight on and get a draw, but I was blind to the Qf2 opportunity once again and played the move that finally decided the game in my opponent's favor, 31.g3. I continued the game up to the move 32...Nd5, after which I resigned.
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