Daily Chess Champs Round 4 Game Analysis #dailychess

 Below you will find a library of my round 4 games with my annotations.

https://www.chess.com/c/2DHKhs9Lz

The key to my successes this tournament is playing the soundest asymmetrical repertoire I could play with Black, where I had comprehensive preparation as you may infer by my annotations.  Against 1.d4, I intended to play Nimzo-Indian and Semi-Slav and against 1.e4 I had intended to play the Classical Sicilian and Dragon as I was confident I could steer the game down contours that were safest to me and I would not experience unpleasant surprises in the position.  In fact I achieved a winning or advantageous position in nearly every game in the tournament from the opening although I was often outplayed.  Definitely the authors of the Chessable and modern-chess repertoires I used deserve some credit, especially GMs Wesley So, Anish Giri and Arturs Neiksans.

My final result was 68 wins, 2 losses, and 8 draws.  I lost three games in round 4 but all those opponent's had closed accounts so I was awarded wins in those games.  I also drew and lost some games in preceding rounds but fortunately either my opponents lost on time or were expelled for fairplay violations.

If you have read this far, and as we know, we can learn more from our losses than our wins, here is a game I lost in round 2.

Any queries, feel free to let me know.  I have many mixed feelings about the quality of my play, but I was amazed by my result, especially because I know I could have played and scored much better.  I definitely have to do better to engage in analyzing sharp positions better (aka try to not be lazy).  I have some suggestions how to improve the event (timebank) and the site (easier to navigate analysis features, each variation gets it's own line etc), but overall I was simply pleased to have some interesting games.