Here it is, ladies and gentleman, the game that raised my rating six points to get it over 2200 at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club. This game was played in invitation only private tournament called szybkielanie. It is a tournament that uses the Swiss System and has four rounds. There are fourteen players participating in this tournament. Players who participate in it are from all around the world. There are players from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Brunei, France, Spain and last but by no means least Finland of course. The game below is from the first round of the tournament between myself and Gosiulkaa. The early part of the game was not that easy for me after 11.Bg5, after that move I just tried to get out of the pin by slowly getting to a position where I can play Qd6 to free my knight. I of course missed completely my opportunity to play 20...b5 because the Queen needs to move to a square where it can't defend the d3 square, enabling me to take advantage of my opponent's clumsy rooks by playing Bd3 after the Queen has moved. Instead I just tried to play so that I can get out of the pin safely and get my Queen to d6. I was not sure how this game will end until I saw the move 27...g5, after that it was much easier to find moves than it was up to that point and the game speeded up a lot from the slow play I had played so far. I have added one more puzzle to mate in one, two, three, eighteen and nineteen puzzle pages.
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9 Feb 2015
C54 Giuoco Piano: 4.c3 Nf6, main lines with 5.d4 and 5.d3 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nxe4 8.O-O Bxc3 9.bxc3 O-O)
8 Feb 2015
C22 Centre Game (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qd1)
It may have taken awhile but I did find yet another opening variation that has not been covered here before. The game below is just one of the 216 correspondence games I have played at Red Hot Pawn. I have also managed to get a bit closer again to my peak rating there, now only 9 points away. Talking about peak ratings, I did manage to get a new one at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club today as my opponent had enough of the game and resigned. Now my new peak rating there is 2201!! I thought I would never see this day when one of my ratings would go so high. I will post that milestone game tomorrow after I have analysed it. I have added one mate in one, one mate in two, one mate in six and two mate in seven puzzles today.
Game number two. The game below was played in the second round of the 2014 August Banded Threesomes I 1700-1800 tournament held at Red Hot Pawn. This is my only loss on second round and if I do not lose my last game in this round, I will win my group and advance to the third round. My last game is also the last game of the round. This game was full of mistakes on both sides but I ended up messing up the ending that at one point could have been drawn and instead I lost.