This is one of those games where the difference in playing strength is a bit too much to be all that comfortable for either player. This is one of the forty games that I played in the 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen II tournament. In this game, I played the opening part rather quickly and did not really even look at the position all that much. It was because I had so many games to make moves in during the opening phase of the game, so I just blitzed the moves and for some reason I thought that this was Spanish and therefore I moved my knight to e7, like I have done so many times before. After I had made that move, I noticed that the bishop was at c4 and not at b5, so I had not went with a move that I would normally play in that position. Moves I would consider playing instead are Nf6, d6 and maybe a6. E7 is definitely worse square for the knight than f6, but it should not mean a lost position yet for Black. Despite the large rating difference in my favor, it was me that messed up quite badly for the first time in the game when I played 9...Qxe7.
This could have been a rather embarrassing game, had my opponent actually played 10.Ng6 in reply and used his or hers golden opportunity to get a clear advantage against an opponent several hundred points stronger. Golfnaturl moved the queen simply to h5, which did protect the attacked knight at h4, but not much else since the queen can't really do much at h5. For the second time in a row, I ignored the possibility of Ng6 and moved my knight to d4. Even though my 10th move was somewhat bad, it was not the worst move in the position. Again golfnaturl had the chance to play Ng6 and make my life difficult. Luckily for me, golfnaturl played a passive move 11.Rac1 and I had an opportunity to get back to the game. I had then very good chance to take advantage of golfnaturl's badly placed pieces starting with the move 11...b5, but like a fool I played 11...c6, which does not seem to make much sense in the position. It would seem that I really wanted my opponent to play Ng6, but for some reason or other golfnaturl did not play it. Golfnaturl chose the disaster of a move 12.Rfe1 instead.
I finally got away from Ng6 possibilities by playing 12...Be6, which was a reasonable move, but a lot weaker than the moves 12...Kh7 or 12...b5. Golfnaturl then took the bishop with its counterpart and I decided to take back with my knight. I probably did not think all that long back with the pawn since by then I had to notice the possibility for a knight fork. However, it turns out that I should have taken with the pawn and that Ng6 in that position is really bad. I would have just pinned the knight with Qe8 and golfnaturl would have been in huge trouble. The game started to finally be lost for my opponent with the move 18.Qg4.
I did find the apparently the strongest move in reply 18...g6 and the rest of the game was just matter of technique. While it is true that the material was at this point even, positionally golfnaturl was lost.
Game number two and second in a row against golfnaturl. This one is taken from the 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen III tournament. Interestingly I made the same uncharacteristic move 4...Nge7 also in this game. These two games started the same, so it is likely that first few moves of these two games were also played around the same time. The game below might not be played perfectly by me and I actually messed up in the opening quite badly, but after that I did manage to play accurate enough way to get the full point. Golfnaturl tried the move 5.Ng5 in this game instead of the move 5.Nc3 that my opponent played in the first game. 5.Ng5 is the right way to try and take advantage of the horrible knight move. The game continued with the moves 5...d5 6.exd5 and then I made a blunder that could have lost me the game, 6...Nxd5.
Golfnaturl played in the game 7.Qf3, which is not so strong, since I could have taken the knight on g5 with my queen. My opponent would have then taken back on d5 with the bishop and the position would have been roughly even. I played the inferior 7...Be6 and my opponent could have doubled my pawns on the e-file with 8.Nxe6 while also preventing me from castling kingside because the queen controls f8 in that position. Golfnaturl played 8.d3 instead, which is considered a novelty according to my reference database. In the position after 13.Nd2 I had the brilliant move 13...Ne3, which could have lead to a quicker win.
I went for the other knight fork, 13...Ne5, which was also a decent move with the idea of trading pieces when up in material. The rest of the game went rather effortlessly in my favor, but it was only completely won after the blunder 18.Qe4. The queen is placed on a bad square, because I was able to play 18...Qf5, which forced the queen trade.
When the queens were off the board, there was no real counterplay for my opponent, who had not even finished developing all of the pieces yet. The remainder of the game was rather easy to play, but golfnaturl struggled up to the move 48...h2, after which my opponent resigned.
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