Monday, February 21, 2011

Slow Month

I haven't played much this month, although I am continuing to do tactical problems. My tactical vision seems to have gotten worse over the last month as I have dropped a significant amount of ratings points on both of the sites I do problems on. Quite often I just am not seeing the continuation and the other problems I tend to second guess myself on. I'll actually talk myself out of the right move.

Here is a game from a while back that I thought I played fairly well. I did miss a mate in two, but over all I thought I did well.







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gypsy13@chesscube.com - ViltaireChesscube
0-1, 2/1/2011.
[#] 1.e4 c5 2.g3 d6 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.d3 Bg7 last book move 6.Bg5 O-O 7.h4 Qb6 8.Bxf6 Bxf6 9.Na4 Qb4 10.c3 Qa5 11.Ne2 Bd7 12.b3 Bxa4 13.bxa4 Bxc3 14.Nxc3 Qxc3 15.Kf1 Nc6 16.Rc1 Qe5
[16...Qa3 17.h5° ]
17.f4 Qd4 18.Rc4 Qb2 19.Bf3 Nd4 20.Be2 Qxa2 21.f5 a6 22.g4 b5 23.g5 bxc4 24.dxc4 Rab8 25.f6 Rb1 26.fxe7 Rxd1
[26...Qxe2 27.Kg1 Rxd1# ;
26...Qxe2 27.Kg1 Rxd1# ]
27.Bxd1 Re8 28.h5 Rxe7 29.hxg6 fxg6
[29...fxg6 30.Rh3 Rf7 31.Rf3 Nxf3 32.Be2 Nxg5 33.Kg2 Qxe2 34.Kg3 Qf2 35.Kg4 Qf4# ]
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