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Going Through Your Old Games

DanielGuel
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Hello, everyone!

No, this isn't some fancy and elaborate post that I prepared for weeks. This is more of a one day I wake up, and "Hey! I'd like to share this with my viewers!" type of post. 

As many of you know, I compete actively in tournaments. I committed to a project which I think every tournament player should do: save their tournament games on a computer. I have 41 games saved on Scid vs. PC (it's kind of a free and less-fancy alternate to Chessbase) dating back to June 2017... I have been neglecting this task, and have almost 20 more games to add!  

I decided to go through them and start annotating them. I feel like I could learn from my past games, and my students might also benefit from my past experiences. I scrolled down to my first game saved, and it in itself was interesting. In fact, the variations I found were so interesting that I had to share it with you! I hope you will enjoy my old game and analysis. This game is older than my blog!

I will make a note that, as I eluded to, this game is very old, so it has been a long time since I analyzed it. Many of the lines are computer lines, however, I hope they can still make sense and bear learning to any given reader!

Some intriguing variations! It is highly unlikely that my opponent, a strong amateur, would find all of these variations. As mentioned in the notes, my opponent opted for 16... Na5. Let's see how the game proceeded:
Wow! Didn't expect to display branch after branch. If you do have questions about any of the abundant variations, feel free to leave me a comment. 
Otherwise, have a good game (edit: day!), and maybe consider analyzing your old games when you were a class weaker!

 

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