ALl moves in 75m, 10s increment from start. A fairly dreadful game for two supposedly reasonable players. My opponent missed a fork and blundered a piece, I then missed a pin and blundered a piece back. Afterwards, as often these days, I felt ...
All moves in 75 minutesm with 10s increment from the start. I always manage to mess up the opening when I play Nik, but then recover. This is the first time I have not beaten him in a classical game. I simply lost my way in the opening. After...
All moves in 80m. Crazy game ... and my first 'blunder a piece and win anyway' game of the season. Had I played 17. Qb3, which was my original plan, I would have won easily and rated it as good a game as I have played in a while - for some reas...
All moves in 75m with 10s increment from start. Got into a bit of a mess with the opening, but then fairly pleased with my play to arrive at a better endgame, but not quite enough to be winning. We agreed that, by the end, my position looked ...
All moves in 75m, 10s increment from the start. I never really got going in this game! Out-graded, but still should have put up more of a fight really.
All moves in 75m, 10s increment from start. A fun game (particularly for an Exhange Variation French), in which we each thought we had attacking chances at various stages. A draw was probably the right result, and gave the team a win; we each h...
All moves in 75m with 10s increment from the start. I finally win a league game! Against a decent opponent too. I misplayed my move order in the opening and I felt his knight threats might've been strong. I was pleased with the Bd4, Bc5 manoue...
All moves in 75m, with 10s increment from move 1. Owing to the Gibraltar Tournament, and other reasons, a very weak Wigston 2 took on Wigston1, with me on Board 2. My opponent was graded 50 ECF points higher than me (that is around 400 FIDE poi...
All moves in 75m, with 10s increment from the start. ... and another interesting game lost in time trouble in the ending ... I delayed playing f6 too long (always tricky to get that decision right in the French advanced variation) and I gave aw...
All moves in 75m, with 10s increment from move 1. A reversal of many recent games. This time I got ahead on the clock and got into a losing but tricky endgame. Pushing the d-pawn was a bluff (I did not think it worked), but deliberately made t...
All moves in 80 minutes. No real idea how I managed to lose this one - other than a repeat of the time pressure of some previous games. I had an overwhelming position from the opening, but got about 25 minutes behind on the clock. Once it liqu...
All moves in 75 minutes, with 10s increment from start. Another game not won ... but this was a draw against the highest rated player I have played so far this season, so not too bad a result. I was massively ahead on time for most of the thega...
All moves in 75m, with 10s increment from the start. Very little to say about this, A dull draw, He probably had a factionally better position by the end,, but agreed the draw immediately nontetheless.
All moves in 75m + 10s increment from start. Another interesting game .. and another loss! For once, I got a decent position out of the opening and after 17 ... Bxf3 I thought I must be winning, but overall I spent too long failing to find a wi...
80m for all moves. I am having a poor season so far... This game and mygame tomorrow I lost for basically the same reason: I had a worse, but complex, position with my opponent in time trouble and instead of consolidating, I complicated ... bad...
65m plus 10s increment per move. Like yesterday, I got into a bad but fairly complex position. After move 23 my opponent had less than 3m left (albeit with 10s increment) and offered me a draw. I thought the team needed me to win, so I contin...
All moves in 65m plus 10s increment from the start. Well, quite a game! I played passively, partly because at no stage could I actually see how he was going to checkmate me, and I always felt my position had strengths once his attack petered ou...
All moves in 80 minutes. An enjoyable game despite the loss. By the end I was down to seconds and my opponent to a couple of minutes, and I did not play the end game very accurately under time pressure. Still, no egregious blunders and an in...
All moves in 80 minutues with 10 second increment. Yet another win from a lost position! I over-reached in the middle game before I'd completed my development and came up the exchange down and completely lost. My bishop game me some swindling ...
All moves in 80 minutes, with 10 second increment. A very lucky win, 11. Nxe5 simply loses a piece (stupidly I had over-looked that the knight guards the bishop). Fortunately, my opponent overlooked that too, so I won a pawn. That move aside, ...
All moves in 80 minutes, with a 10 sexond increment. I got a good position out of the opening, but allowed my opponent to equalise. I offered a draw after the exchange of rooks (I had 20m left, my opponent about 50m), but he turned it down as...
All moves in 80 minutes with 10 second increment. A perfectly decent position out of the opening, then 11. Qd3 was just a poor (pretty much a losing) move; I simply mis-calculated!
All moves in 80 minutes with 10 second increment. I thought I'd neutralised his attack and may evern have had the better position for the end-game. I did not notice the pin on the rook after 26. Qg4, and the game then fell apart. 23 ... Nf5 w...
All moves in 90 minutes. I swindled a draw from a lost position. I started with the initative, turned down a draw offer at a point I thought I was losing, but at the time I thought the team needed me to win to avoid losing the match ... then sp...
All moves in 90 minutes. Fairly straightforward win. My opponent pretty much let me achieve everything I wanted to positionally. His blunder at the end speeded things up, but I was already comfortably winning.
