This is taken from the fourth round of the 15 minute tournament that was played March 21st 2015 at the FIDE Online Arena. This was also the last round game and I ended the tournament with a score of three wins and one loss. The game started to go clearly wrong for vincenzo48 already on move 9. The problem with the move is that I could have replied with e5 and the knight would have needed to move to maybe d5 and I could have doubled vincenzo48's pawns. The only other option would have been to move the knight to e8, but that would have been a really horrible square for the knight.
I had unfortunately too passive mind set once again and played 10.a3, in order to prevent b4. After that the position ought to be even. The equality remained until I played the sloppy move 29.Qf6. I did end up on the worse side of the board after that. My opponent replied correctly with 29...Qc5+ and then I went from being slightly worse to being clearly worse with the move 30.Kg2. My best option was to move my king to h1.
In the game vincenzo48 played 30...Rdd6, which allowed me to get back into the game. The best move for my opponent seems to be 30...e5, because that way vincenzo48 would have been able to get a protected passed pawn. The game continued evenly after that up to the move 32.Kh3. Both players then blundered, first my opponent with the move 32...Rd7 and then me with the move 33.Qg5. While neither move was bad enough to lose the game, they were enough to shift the advantage from one side to the other, with my 33rd move even clearly to the side of my opponent.
The game continued with the moves 33...Kg7 34.Re5 and then for the last time my opponent blundered and moved the queen to d6. Moving the the queen to c4, a2 or b3 would have kept vincenzo48 clearly fighting for the win. With that one unfortunate queen move the game continued to be played equally to its completion. The only reason I was the winner is due to the fact that my opponent ran out of time a few moves later.
Game number two. This game is taken from the 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen II tournament and it was played at Red Hot Pawn. This was the first tournament I have ever won at RHP and currently it is also the only one I have been able to win! Even though I ended up winning this game, it was me who ended up being on the clearly worse side of the board when I played 16.f3. Apsol did not find the strongest reply, 16...d5, which was also the starting point for the path towards a clear advantage. Apsol chose the move 16...Nc4, after which my opponent has only a slight advantage.
The next turning point came when apsol played 19...exd5 and the balance shifted slightly in my favor. A few moves later my opponent made the huge game losing blunder 22...Qc8 and after that it was very easy game for me to win.
I did obviously find the fork on e7, but apsol did not resign yet, my opponent continued for a couple of moves before he or she resigned after 25.Rfe1.
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