This was played in a team match called Open Challenge The Ultimate Chess Alliance (T.U.C.A.). It was played between The Ultimate Chess Alliance (T.U.C.A.) and Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy on 13 boards. I was playing on board 1 for Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy and unfortunately lost both of my games. The match ended with a score of 16,5 - 9,5 in favor of The Ultimate Chess Alliance (T.U.C.A.). Only two timeouts in this match and as both teams suffered one timeout loss, those did not decide the match, which was nice. I may have lost this game, but I was the one who first was able to get a clear advantage. The first clear mistake was played by my opponent on move 10, when Jorge3000 played b4.
Moving the pawn to b4 might have been good, had my opponent made sure that he does not lose the pawn when the pawn lands on that square. In the game Jorge3000 gave the pawn for free, which I happily captured. The second huge blunder was made by me, when on move 17 I moved my bishop to c8. If I were to end up in this position again, I think I would not even consider that horrible bishop move. At the moment I can't come up with the reason why I played it, it does not seem to make any sense. Before the move I had a winning advantage, but after it the position was roughly even. A couple of moves later the third and final mistake of the game was seen, it came in the form of 19...Bd7.
It is interesting to me that both my blunders came when I moved the light-squared bishop. I usually do not leave a pawn hanging intentionally, but I guess I was too worried about the move Ra8 in response to Nd8 or perhaps I thought that the pawn was lost anyway in the continuation 19...Nd8 20.Nxb7 Nxb7 21.Bxb7 Bxb7 22.Qxb7. I did try to hang on for a few more moves, but at long last I resigned when Jorge3000 played 29.Bh3, which would have won more material.
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