Sometimes but very rarely even I get lucky in a chess game. I was playing a over the board team match today and I got slowly but surely got an extra pawn on move 17, then I thought maybe for the first time in the game that I might actually win for the first time in this season, two of my earlier games were drawn. I knew that my opponent had only played one official game before our game, so I was quite confident. He did play surprisingly well though and the game was actually quite hard. I did manage to get another pawn later but then on move 33 I had to give some material back. I had three pawns for the bishop after the trades and even at this point I thought well maybe I still have some chances to win. I could not believe how badly used the material in my favor at that point. Then I lost a pawn and I thought that I am for sure going to lose now. My team mates had mostly agreed to a draw at that point and one of them had won. So I knew I had to keep fighting at least for a draw. Loss would have meant that the match would have ended in a draw. At that point I made a few quite quick moves and my opponent started to use more of his time. I tried to find any counterplay chances that I could find but as my opponent played strong moves I got a bit demoralized but fought on. Then we come to the move 42.Ne4 that he played and after some thought I took his knight with mine even though I thought the game would end there as he then would just check my king on f8 and when it moves, I lose a rook and I would have resigned at that point as there would have been no point to carry on anymore. He did not play the check, however, but instead took the knight back with his bishop. That was I think one of the turning points of the game. It was not the losing move though, it only gave me some faint hope to struggle on. After I played my king to e7 and away from checks for the time being, he made a move that at first seemed like just another way to win the game, I thought for a while and then saw some hope because it was a blunder, maybe not enough to lose the game but at least the position seemed a bit more closer to a draw. He maybe played two inaccurate moves in a row but the third one was a blunder which enabled me to get back in the game as I could at that point win back the bishop I lost. The material started to be even then but there were still technical problems that needed solving. On move 47 he played his queen to h1 in order to threaten mate on h6 which I thought at first that I can't stop. Then after some time thinking the position I saw my only hope and actually a line that might get me the win. I took a pawn on c4 with my f-rook which also checked his king on c1. His only move was to go to b1. That enabled me to check him again on c1 which his queen is forced to take and then I take his queen with my other rook checking him again. King took my other rook. At this point I had a pawn and queen for his two rooks. His rook were badly placed then though I just took one of them with my queen he took back with his rook and I took his last rook with my king. After all this we reach into a position that is an easy win for me. I have pawns on f7, b6, a7 and my king is at e5. His pawns are b2 and a3 and his king is at c1. We played on for a few moves but when he saw that I will queen my f-pawn, he resigned. My win meant that we have now won all the three matches in the season and that we have not suffered even one loss in any of the boards so far. Our last game will be against the team that leads our division.
All that had nothing to do with the game I am about to show you though. It is a game played over four years ago at Red Hot Pawn. The ratings are quite recent so the difference in rating was not as high as it is now. I have added three mate in one puzzles and two mate in two puzzles. I was lucky to find this game so quickly as I am a bit feverish again so I would require some rest. The name of this variation differs a bit depending on the source. This can also be found with the name A11 English Opening: Caro-Kann Defensive System. The reason I used the name A11 English Opening: Anglo-Slav Variation. General is that the source I only used in the past had this name for the opening variation.
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