Oof!!! (One of my BEST daily games)

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/334230979

98.9% accuracy.

USING 23 MOVES to DEMOLISH my opponent without giving him/her ANY chances.

NO INACCURACIES, MISTAKES, BLUNDERS, or MISSED WINS.

This is my masterpiece.

I haven't blogged in a while, but I was playing LOTS of OTB.

I got a 1577 provisional USCF rating (I threw away several wins, one against a 1600, Joel Carron (@bigchampionofchess), and one against Kevin Sun (@kevin_mx_sun). I lost to Kevin, a 8-year-old, due to failing to see a simple decoy into fork. I was squeezing him to death before then!)

And that's how I lost $280 in a tournament. I'll probably lose more (since losing to Kevin costed way too much. He's only 1000 OTB classical USCF but 1500 Online). Felt very bad and frustrated that I missed a simple tactic.

But nevertheless, my skills improved. This daily game shows I accurately I PLAYED. I TOTALLY SQUEEZED MY OPPONENT DOWN. With a wrong sacrifice, I refuted his/her entire idea and finished him/her off with a nice blow.

DISCLAIMER: This is not designed to humiliate my opponent. It's just a very good game. Both of us learned a lot from it. He/she learned that the strategy doesn't work here, and I found the correct defense.

Here's the game:

A very natural game. I was actually very relieved that I beat down the attack.

I guess this is how GM Lev Polugaevsky felt when he beat down Yuri Sakharov.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1111509

Takeaways:

Don't sacrifice wildly. Take your time and think it through!

Be calm ALWAYS. My strategy is to wait some time before responding in a daily game.

So yeah! I can share you my OTB games. Have a nice day!