Game Quality Is More Important Than Result!
Hello everyone! Let's start off with my quote which can explain what the title means (its confusing cuz I suck at making titles 💀)
"I'd rather play a beautiful game but lose with a mistake rather than somehow make out a losing game." - MatchDaWin437
I know the quote sucks 🤡 but it's just to explain the game which I'm gonna show today!
*By the way, I don't like fancy fonts and some different colour font because some of you use light mode and some different background which can affect your blog reading.*
Here, I want you all to understand that result doesn't play an important role if you played well in your game, for example, you played a brilliant positional game or did an excellent attack but one move ruined it and it was lost. That's sad 🥲🥲 but idc it's not my game...Here, losing a game which you played extraordinary can be traumatizing but we are not satisfied because that's a human nature, we're never satisfied with what we get.
The fact we should take it as a learning opportunity would help more in the future. For example, when you realize you're preventing your opponent's ideas, or just find out you're playing better than you do, then you should be careless about the result as it is a sign of game improvement if you work more hard (which we never do tho..) or need more experience.
Moving on, to what we were here for, I'm gonna show an example telling about this topic more exactly.
Anand - Sokolov O-1 18.01.1996 Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee
Here, Anand played an extremely brilliant game but lost just because of one single bad move. But, I already told that it doesn't matter if we play a good game.
And, Sokolov is not an ordinary player, he was also a very strong player from Netherlands, an extremely strong competitor for the World Champion title but sadly, he was born during the wrong reigning times of Kasparov and Anand.
Time to begin with the game. I hope it would be very interesting and a game which could help you learn new thing about psychology. Yes, not caring about result but the game quality is a good psychological sign of improvement because it makes us selfless about results and less fear of losing which can help us play more confidently.
Let me tell you first about how the game went:
Short Guide Before Viewing The Game
In this game, Anand was playing a bit normally until from move no 15, the game started to catch the heat. On Move 21, Anand just completely started the fire but black had mentality of Saturo-Gojo 💀. Black was like Nah I'd Win. Black slowly played normal chess until Anand just made a blunder and went on to lose the game.
Imagine being one of the top players of the chess world and blundering like this in a crucial and a beautiful match 🙏🙏🤡🤡.
Just kidding, it is a part of game. Now let's begin.
The Extraordinary Game Begins⚔️⚔️:
What is black's threat in this position after move 10...Bg4?
If you found it first attempt, that deserves still no compliment cuz it was an ez one.
Here, after move 12.Nbd2, black found a very nice prophylaxis move, can you think like a Super GM?
Congratulations this time 👏👏 
! ONLY IF YOU FOUND THIS ONE 😈.
It's time for the climax, it is coming in a few moves but, still we wanted the heat and we have it now. The game will be interesting from now on I promise ⚔️⚔️. The thumbnail position is not too far away guys, just 3-4 diagrams away or even less so be ready with your popcorn muahahahahahah!!! By the way, I just realized I'm going a bit off-topic but that's a good thing because the topic part hasn't even come yet 🤡👽.
Here, white found an incredible piece maneuvering move after move 17...Bf6, can you find it? Bet you can't but just try out once.
Congratulations if you found this move...IN FIRST ATTEMPT OR WITHOUT HINT 👽👽. This was a pretty tough move to find unless you're a high-level player. Now, getting back to the game.
We're here to the main situation of this game. Are you confident enough to find the best move? Bet this move made me convinced enough to put this game as an example for this topic.
No words to express by the way, a PRO TIP specially for my viewers:
Whenever you are analyzing, there is no player for example when analyzing, you should not say "Magnus goes for the brilliant move" or "I think Magnus was gonna eat his pawn by himself", instead, during analysis, there are only two players, "White" and "Black", simple! "White decided to eat his own king and went on to cry" or "White's plan is to bring his knight from d2 to f5 square via f1-g3 squares".
Let's focus back to our game. By the way, the blog can be a bit long so don't mind because I swear it's gonna be interesting .
Time for prophylaxis! Find the best move Pretty easy if you solved the previous questions.
Ez one, no compliments this time 😈😈.
Now, I'm gonna ask two questions in a row. Firstly, what is black's response and how white would've rectified the blunder.
It was pretty much a roller-coaster game, It took me more than a day to understand this game and writing took about 6 days. Finally, it's gonna end today. I started on around 1st May or 2nd seeing this game and started on this project nevertheless, going back to the topic.
