This was played in the first round of the WORLD OPEN RAPID tournament that was played at the FIDE Online Arena on March 18th 2015. This was not an easy game and it could have ended in my opponent getting the win. The first really horrible move was played by me in this game when I moved my bishop to g7 on move 27. The bishop was needed on f8 in order to cover the d6 square, so that the knight could not jump there. Veronica.v replied correctly with 28.Nd6 and my position after that was rather horrible, even losing. The knight on d6 attacked the queen, the pawns at b7 and f7 and also added to the control of the square e8, so that my rook on d8 lacked good squares to go to.
I then moved my attacked queen to d7 in order to protect the pawn on b7. The most obvious seeming move would be then to play Qe7 and add more pressure to my position, but veronica.v kindly just moved the knight back to e4, which attacked the pawn on g5. This helped me to get back into the game, which I was able to do with the reply 29...Rg6. There would be no real point behind moving the knight back to d6 because I could just reply with Bf8 and the knight move would look rather silly and it would just waste time. The next huge blunder was played by veronica.v, when my opponent played 34.Qe2.
The move was so bad in fact that it was easy for me to come up with moves that would help me win the game. I started with the obvious 34...hxg2+, since it won a pawn and freed the square h3 for my queen to land upon on the next move. It is true that my opponent could have offered a better resistance, had veronica.v covered the square h1 with the knight by moving it to f2, but even then the result of the game should be 0-1. Veronica.v played the game up to mate, which came on move 44.
Game number two. This is a short game and that is because my opponent lost on time. And the timeout, of course, explains why I won the game... Apparently according to the analysis I was basically already lost after nine moves because I had made the horrible move 9.O-O, which should have lost the game.
Igwiz missed his or hers chance and played 10.Qf3. A much better square for the queen would have been h5, where it would attacked both f7 and mate on h7. Had my opponent played that I might have resigned the game at that moment. Then it came time to play the last move of the game, 10...Qe7, which was losing again due to the reply Qh5. This was played in a tournament called 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III. The win of the tournament went to a player called kopsov (1858), who gathered 114 points. I was 4th in the final standings of the tournament and gathered 99.
Game number three. The game below is from a tournament called 2014 September Grand Seven Fourteen III. This was one of the three draws that I played in the tournament. In the game below I played the sequence of moves in the wrong order and had to take the draw at the end. I am referring to move 19...Re8, had I instead taken on e4 with my pawn and played Re8 the next move, I may have had better chances to win the game.
In the game dooser2004 played 19.g3, which was the only move played in this game that could have been the starting point for a loss for one of the players. The reason why 19.g3 is such a bad is that White is not only forced on the defensive, but also ends up losing some material. For instance, the game might continue 19...fxe4 20.dxe4 Re8 21.Neg1 Rfe7 22.Nd2 d3 23.c3 Bf2 and White would lose a pawn. The line I chose was where White tries to hold on to the material, it might be better to give up the pawn earlier, so that the position does not get so bad for White. 23.c3 was played in that line because 23.cxd3 would have been answered with Nb4. Because I was not able to take advantage of this opportunity, the game was played evenly to the end.
Game number four. This one was played on the first round of the 2014 September Glacial Super Casual I tournament that is held at Red Hot Pawn. I played on group 7 and I won the group, which meant that I was the only one from my group to advance to the second round. Only the group winner or winners will advance, so most players are eliminated in round one. The second round is currently in progress and it is very unlikely that I would win this tournament, but it is still theoretically possible. I have gathered 6 points and my maximum possible score is 30, which is 6 points higher than the amount of points that the current leader has gathered. The game below was quite evenly matched up to the last couple of moves when my opponent self-destructed. The game deciding blunder was seen when dooser2004 played 20.f4.
Moving the pawn to f4 was bad because it loses at least a pawn. I took on f4 with my pawn and then dooser2004 just simply took the pawn back with the rook, which momentarily equalized the material. Taking the pawn back was much worse than giving up the pawn in view of 21...Be3, which I played in the game and my opponent resigned because there is no way to save both the rook and the knight.
After 4 games, I have only played this variation with the black pieces and I have been able to win 3 (75%) and drawn 1 (25%) of the games. Since the average rating of my opponents is only 1552, this may not be that impressive.
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