The blog features analysed games of mine, consisting of chess, chess960 and 3 check. There are also puzzles that you can solve by moving the pieces on the board and the solution can be checked by using the engine provided by the ChessBase's publishing tool. All games and puzzles can be downloaded for free!
This was played on the first round of the Smaller Tournament at Chess.com. I managed to win group 4 on round one with a half point difference. I was able to gather 6.5 points in 8 games. Only the group winner advanced to the next round, so I was the only one going to round two from my group. On second round I played in group 1 and I was only able to gather 4.5 points in 8 games, which was only good enough for 3rd place in the group, which meant that I was eliminated on that round. This game is only 10 moves long and does not contain any really horrible moves. There certainly is room for improvement and instead of moves like 7.a3 and 9.h3 that do not seem to improve billy23xx's position other moves should be considered. In both cases O-O seems like the better way to go.
Continuing the development with 9.O-O, seems like a better idea than 9.h3.
I may have been a bit better on the final position of the game, but nothing serious had happened yet. Had my opponent not lost on time, I would have had no real winning chances, had both players played accurately to the end. Due to the rating difference of over 600 points in my favor, it would have been likely that my opponent would have messed up at some point in a way that I would have been able to take advantage of, but that was not, of course, by any means guaranteed outcome of the game.
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