This was played in the atadros's mini-tournament V, which was the first and so far the only high-stakes tournament I have taken part in. It has an increased cost to join, but also the points you can get from this mini-tournament are increased. I was on 9th place in the final standings with 5.5 points. My opponent, willy_13, was on 7th place and he gathered 6.5 points in 20 games. A player called desaparicidos (2033) won the tournament, he gathered 17.5 points. The first blunder of the game was seen on move 12, when my opponent went one O too far and castled on the queenside.
In order to take advantage of the blunder, I needed to play 13.Ba3 and I would have had a winning advantage. Blunders were seen from both sides for a couple of moves unfortunately, my first blunder being the reply 13.Qb1. My 13th move was not bad enough to tip the balance in my opponent's favor, but I lost all my advantage with that move. Willy_13 then played the horrible 13...g5 and I was given another chance to move my bishop to a3 and get the winning advantage again. I messed up my second chance as well with another queen move. This time I moved my queen to a2. Both times the result of my queen moves were the same, I lost all of my advantage, but I did not end up on the worse side of the board either. When I did play Ba3 finally on move 17, at that point it was a bad move. A few more mistakes were seen in the last part of the game, but neither side was able to keep the advantage and eventually draw was agreed upon after the move 24...Ng5.
Game number two. The game below was played on the third round of the French 2014 tournament at Chess.com. I was on fourth place in group 2 in the final standings, which was also the last place unfortunately. I gathered only half a point in six games. I faced rather tough players on all rounds, but on this round my luck ended. My opponent in this game, National Master Ejarov, won the group with one and a half a point difference to amir88 (2157), who finished second.
This game started to go a bit wrong for me already on move 14. I moved the bishop back to c1, and tried to get the bishop to a better diagonal. Ejarov replied by moving the rook to c8, which threatened the continuation 15...cxd4 16.cxd4 Qxc2, which is why I moved my rook to a2 to protect the pawn on c2. It was the starting point for the troubles that I could not recover from because my opponent played well enough to not let the position get even again. Maybe my opponent did not play the most accurate moves, but the advantage still stayed on the side of Ejarov. The position in which the game deciding mistake was played can be seen below.
In the game I moved my bishop to d2, thinking that I can somehow hold on and maybe get a draw, but Ejarov was able to show decisively why I was losing the game. When my opponent won a pawn and it seemed that I can't prevent the loss of more material, I resigned after 36...Rxc3+.
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