The Rematch

There's nothing I like better than a bit of nostalgia, and tonight I take you back to my very first blog post entitled, appropriately, My First Annotated Game.  This was a game against my Romanian friend Simeone, whose dedication to the game of Chess has always been an inspiration to me. I would guess that overall the series between Simeone and I is split.  In the game first annotated however, I was able to gain a swift victory via some rather hard-hitting tactical maneuvers.  It is thus only fitting that I now annotate a more recent game which we shared, after I came back to playing chess after a 2-year break.  During my break, Simeone played almost 6,000 games of blitz/bullet and 3-day chess while I played zero games of any thing remotely Chess-related.  This game will reflect this vast gap of experience.