In my games it goes well in the openings. In the middlegame often I have the inititiative.
And when the moment is there to finish it off, it happens........
The blunder......
Sigh.
I work so hard to learn the tactics, on the club some good players asure me they see improvement in my playing. As fathers they support and advice me; they are even proud at me when I win a game. (This happens when you are the only woman at the club, I'm a kind of mascotte.)
When they saw me growing fast they even think I was talented ( ha ha, it was the training! no talent!)
The last year I don't know what happened to me, I've lost 70 ratingpoints, all because of blunders.
I give an example of my last game:
I played white.
white black
- e4 c5
- c3 e5
- Bc4 Kf6
- d3 Be7
- Kf3 d5
- exd5 Bd6
- Kd2 0-0
- Ke4 Re8
- 0-0 a6
- Bg5 Kh8
- Kxf6 gxf6
- Bh4 e4
- d3xe4 Rxe4
- Bd3 Rg4
- Re1 Be7
- Qe2 Rxg2 +
- Kxg2 hurray! Qg8 +
- Kh1 Bh3
- Rg1 Bg4 I do not dare to tell, I knew that I had to be carefull for mate. but I was eating my sandwich, and was focussed on his e7 bishop, to catch than after Rxf7+, and that was it, in a winning game
- I took the bloody $%%*^!#** bishop
He took of course my knight and it was over. I have seen this move. I knew it, but why do I allways have a mind absence at "le moment suprême"?
I'm happy with my optimistic character, otherwise I would have give up the whole chess thing and concentrate on my music.
But I will overcome this blundering, and I will play heavenly.
Sometime.
4 comments:
Optimism is a dangerous trait to have in chess, Margriet. Always doubt that your conclusions about your position are accurate until you have proven to yourself that they are correct.
Don't think about ratingpoints. Just think about the position on the board and nothing more. It doesn't matter if your opponent is Jan Timman or the biggest chess patzer on earth. You always have to find the best possible move.
I know how you feel. I have played games where I feel I am building this beautiful masterpiece but end up disapointed how it ends. I imagine that Tal felt this very way at times. When you play your heavenly game, I look forward to reading it on your Weblog!
Jim TakChess
For all of you: thank you for your comment
For Celticdeath: I'm not optimistic in the game, I'm optimistic in LIFE. I do my moves sometimes to quick. My husband advice me to sit on my hands before I do my move.(HAha)
For Logis: In this last game I WAS aware of the danger, that is the problem, That was the BLUNDER, not my judgement of the position, but move to fast.
For Takchess: thank you, when I have time this week I'll show you a game where I played a combination where I saved a lost game with, and won. This was published in our clubjournal as "problem of the month".
I've seen it because I trained it just the week before the game.
Training DOES helps us. It's great to see combinations work.
The heavenly game comes in a year or ten, I hope.
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