Game 20170311.006 (Chess.com)

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Game 20170311.005 (Chess.com)

About a year ago, I would have tried to either win and exchange or at least keep it even. These days I don't mind if my opponent takes off pieces I do not need for my plan (however good or bad it may be). In fact, when that happens these days, it gives me a degree of satisfaction that my opponent just wasted a move and created more space for me to move around.




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Game 20170311.004 (Chess.com)

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Game 20170311.003 (Chess.com)

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Game 20170311.002 (Chess.com)

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Game 20170311.001 (Chess.com)

I feel and see a marked difference in my playing style these days, as compared to a year ago. It was not a gradual change, but quite a sudden one. It seems to have happened during my last hiatus. I trust I'm improving surely, albeit slowly.



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Game 20170312.001 (Chess.com)

I feel and see a marked difference in my playing style these days, as compared to a year ago. It was not a gradual change, but quite a sudden one. It seems to have happened during my last hiatus. I trust I'm improving surely, albeit slowly.



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Game 20170310.001 (Chess.com)

This game went quite well for me. My opponent delayed development to start an early attack with limited resources, which suited me fine, though I was down material in the opening. Though I could not play the exact opening I wanted because of Black's first 2 moves, I could still play very similar ideas with the N sac on f7. Got many tactical shots from there on.

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On a side note: Rather than owning up and resigning, my opponent just disconnected and let the game auto-resign. I learned later (from other people's notes on her/his profile) that this was not the first time it happened. I wonder why such wimps play chess at all.

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Productive Year

This time the break was only from the blog, and not from the game. Over the last few months, I have been playing a few 30 min games each weekend live on chess.com with people rated roughly equal. I've also played a couple of 30 min games every day against a good mobile app by thinking down Arasan to 15% strength, which should be a range of rating slightly more challenging. Shall post at least some of those games here in coming days (Converting the pgns to repayable games on a daily basis is a hassle, since there are no apps for that, and I have to depend on chess.com).

Over the last three months I've gradually and finally realised exactly what kind of games I really like to play. With that realisation came a change in my openings as White. However, with that also came a need to find comparable openings as Black, but since Black's first few moves are generally only reactive attempts at equalising, I found no satisfactory answer at my level. So I generally feel weaker when I play the Black pieces, but not if my opponents allow me a chance to gain initiative--then I happily try to capitalise.

I believe this year will be productive in terms of improvements.

Shall post those games when I'm able to convert them.

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Game 20170309.001 (Chess.com)

I was comfortable throughout this game. There was not much pressure from White.



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