my first draw!

a painful blunder while finishing up a game with soccer magnus, leading to my first ever draw in chess. hopefully as i get better there will be many more draws to come, as part of much better games!

im trying out d4 openings for the first time this week, and just want to get a feel for them without overthinking the games too much. so now that i finished the intermediate bots ive been trying them against the magnus bots and in 10 minute games. 

soccer magnus is a good bot level for me right now; i have to work hard and not blunder at all. in this game i didnt bother with any higher level strategy or positional plans, i mostly played move by move. now if only i still played move by move at the end, instead of broadly intending to finish up the game, it couldve been enough!

the game had lots of trades offered and accepted, and we ended up in a knight endgame that really stretched my brain. if soccer bot didnt make so many mistakes it wouldve been a draw much earlier, so i guess in the end its fair.