The third round of the tournament called 2014 October Long Haul Split I finally decided the winner of the tournament. This is my only good game from that round, well I made some small mistakes, but nothing that could be called a blunder. The Exchange Variation of the French is not particularly interesting to me, but sometimes I play it against higher rated opponents, against whom I do not like to play the sharper variations. My 14th move, Qe2, was a small mistake.
The idea behind the move 14.Qe2 was to follow it up with 15.Re1 and take the e-file under my control. Caissad4 could have then taken my bishop from h4 and get the bishop pair, but my opponent was more concerned about development and played 14...Bd7. Admittedly, the bishop could not have been taken to safety on my next move, so if my opponent really wanted to take the bishop, he or she could do so later. I then moved my rook to e1 as planned and then we continued to play a few more moves, but agreed to a draw after 18...Nxh4. At the moment when the draw offer was made, I had already lost my other game, so only winning this game would have made sure that I still fought for the win of the tournament and a 4th round would have been needed. However, already at this point I was not that interested in playing chess and the idea of prolonging this tournament did not seem like something I would like, so I accepted the offer. My position was not actually promising either and I probably thought that I may lose this game as well if I continue playing it.
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