My round 5 game from the twitter chess tournament. I was white against Stacia Melinda. We played a slooow Petrov which I tried to spice up, but never really managed to.
Thanks to Say Chess (check out his channel), who organized the tournament, I got to meet some nice people on Twitter, and we got to play some classical games. This was round five. So far I was at 3 out of 4, after losing a tactical French in round 1, and winning the next three games.
This round I was paired against Stacia, who is a very good player (and much better than I had expected!). I had no time to prepare for the game because I was focused on my prep for an upcoming tournament, so I didn’t even know what she plays. We entered a Petrov, I played the Nimzowitsch Attack, and my lack of preparation cost me dearly. I tried out an idea I had but never really tested, and the middlegame ended up being completely equal and very boring. Not at all what I’d wanted.
She was slightly better after that, and I only managed to get something after she gave away the only open file. Even after that, the position should have been a draw, but I managed to swindle her in time trouble.
Definitely not a deserved win, but that’s what chess is. This time time trouble decided the winner.
I wanted to record two videos today, and I played a training game against a Patron (in which he crushed after I blundered!), but my Wi-Fi died several times and my laptop overheated and started smelling of molten plastic, so the video is unusable. I am going to record the analysis of the game with him tomorrow, and publish that as a video, so tomorrow it’s going to be another training game, and I won’t be following the recording schedule.
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