This game was played in the invitational only mini-tournament called ichthus's mini-tournament v. 9 players participated in the tournament, which became the first mini-tournament I actually was able to win at GameKnot! Out of the 16 games I won 11, drew 4 and lost only one. However, two of those games were not played because one of the players withdrew from the tournament before it ended. In this very short draw I faced willy_13, who offered a draw in both of our games and both times I accepted the offer. In our other game draw was agreed upon after willy_13's 18th move, so neither game lasted that long. In both games I thought that I had already ended up on the worse side of the board, so accepting the draw seemed to be reasonable in both cases. This is almost not long enough game to be even shared in this blog and actually only the last move of the game, 11...c4, deviates from previously played games in my reference database. That being said, even in the theoretical part of the game, there is something to look at because the engine does not like the line all the way through.
Willy_13 played 7...f5 in the game, which is somewhat inaccurate, but my reply to it, 8.exf6 was even worse. It basically let my opponent off the hook a bit. I should not have taken taken en passant, because it allowed the knight development to f6, which is arguably a better square for the piece than e7. The last move that is considered to be theory according to Deep Fritz 14's opening classification, 9.Qg3, is not actually a good move according to Stockfish 8 64 POPCNT and it thinks that the position after the move is clearly favorable for Black at depth 42. I would not recommend this line for White.
Willy_13 should have played 9...Qa5 in reply, but instead my opponent traded queens, which resulted in a position that is roughly even. The rest of the moves played in the game were made accurately enough, so that neither player gained an advantage.
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