It is time for some action from Red Hot Pawn again. This game ended my good streak of games that enabled me to get my peak rating of 1967 at Red Hot Pawn. The game below started the unfortunate losing streak that is still in progress for me. This game was played on the first round of the 2015 October Grand Split Three Seven I 1800+ tournament. I have gathered 39 points so far and I can get to 51 points if I manage to win the 4 games I have still left to finish in this tournament. My opponent, InvaderOfRome has gathered 35 points, but he has a maximum possible score of 59 and it is likely that InvaderOfRome will be ahead of me in the final standings. I am currently in 6th place and it is possible that it will be also the place I found myself in the final standings, but it is not at all certain yet. InvaderOfRome is currently on 9th place, but can get to 4th place if all goes well for him in the remaining games.
I may have experimented a bit too much in this game, first I went to 4.Bc4, which I had not played in that position before and then later on I castled queenside, which is something I usually do not play. Actually, only the move 8.O-O-O put me in trouble, everything up to that move was ok. The position after 8.O-O-O can be seen below.
The game continued pretty much I had expected 8...exd4 9.Bxd4 Nxd4 10.Rxd4. While I did notice when I castled that the rook would end up in a square that is a bit awkward, I did not think that my position would be horrible as a result. Stockfish thinks in this after game analysis that InvaderOfRome is just clearly better after 10.Rxd4 and I may know why that is. Even though I am ahead in development, my pieces are located quite badly, my knight is pinned to the queen and the rook on d4 is not well placed. InvaderOfRome's pieces are on the other hand well placed. My opponent did not find the best move and by moving the knight to h5 gave me a chance to get the game in balance. I was not able to play the move 11.e5 that could have gone towards a draw, but instead made a mistake by playing 11.Rdd1 and it made my life more difficult for several moves. Only after InvaderOfRome played a bad move 28...f5, I was getting closer to draw the game again. By playing 28...f5 in the position below, my opponent enables me to get rid of one of my doubled pawns, improving my pawn structure a bit.
It is something that he should not have done. My position quickly falls apart again due to some mindless moving on my part starting with the move 30.Rhg1. I was only slightly worse after 30.Rhg1, but with my 31st move I went to a clearly worse position. I played the biggest blunder of the game with my move 36.Kc1, after which there is no point to continue the game, especially when I saw InvaderOfRome's reply 36...Nc3. The position where I played 36.Kc1 can be seen below.
I considered for awhile what to do after 35...Ne4+ and I saw that I can't go to d3 or e2 because I would lose a piece to the knight fork. I honestly can't remember what went on my head when I decided that c1 is a better square for the king than e1. Of course after 36...Nc3 it was obvious to me how stupid I was again able to be. Then again my position was already quite hopeless and I should have gone towards a loss even if I had played 36.Ke1. I have added one analysed game to these two posts: C18 French Defense: Winawer Variation. Classical Variation and C11 French Defense: Classical Variation. Burn Variation. I have also added one mate in two, one mate in three and three mate in four puzzles today.
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