Road to 2300 - A good day on the board

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In this episode I continue with the challenge of reaching 2300 rating points in lichess. After losing some points in the Hive Chess Tournament today I recovered some units and continue the ascent to the goal.

I played three quite interesting games in which I had a good result. In the first game my opponent committed a pretty serious blunder in a position with interesting prospects for both of us. In the second a nice queen and knight mate pattern appeared and in the third my opponent wanted to threaten mate on h7 but his pieces were not coordinated enough to damage my black king.

Let's take a closer look at the games:

@vjap55 vs mikechess7

This was a rather short game that had a tragic ending for Black as he gave away the queen, of course the final position was already somewhat complicated as Black severely weakened the kingside especially the black squares. At the beginning I found Black's position interesting because this type of defense is quite solid.

I think that playing f4 was a mistake by my side because although I gained space on the kingside the "e4" pawn is very weakened but Black did not know how to take advantage of this.

@vjap55 vs
Schedrin_ntc_fsk_ees

In the second game we played a Spanish with some slight variations of the main line. My opponent played a closed scheme and I quickly exchanged the white squared bishop causing a weakness on "e6" but this allowed me to get counterplay on the kingside.

The attack was successful and this nice pattern was played:

Ninjameister07 vs @vjap55 (2145)

This game ended rather quickly as well. My opponent played a somewhat unconventional English opening. He allowed me to attack very fast on the "a" column and finally left a piece hanging.

Well, these were today's games, I hope you liked them and leave in the comments your impressions about this gameplay. Greetings and see you next time.

Music by Infraction is used in the video

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