In our chess careers, sometimes we have extended "runs" (good ones with wins, or bad ones with losses) with the results for one color; with this tournament game, I managed to extend my Black run to five losses over multiple tournaments. It is relatively easy under those circumstances to start seriously questioning your repertoire choices, having an sinking feeling whenever you see a Black on the pairing chart, etc. Here the value of analyzing your own games and better understanding what is actually going on helps combat over-reactions.
Last seen in Annotated Game #262: An unhappy introduction to the Fantasy Variation, this opening is also sub-par for me, but not an unmitigated disaster. The key lesson from the early phase is the idea - also seen in my preferred answer to the Caro-Kann Advance variation - of using the ...c5 pawn lever against White's center. Unfortunately it's an idea that I completely missed - but will remember in the future.
Instead I make the strategic mistake on move 10 for going for a closed position, which resulted in an initiative for White and awkward cramping for myself, until I finally get some counterplay going with a b-pawn advance. I then get a bit lucky when my opponent misses a pin-related tactic on move 20, but mishandle the calculations. It's also notable that my thinking is too materialistic, a repeated observation I've had recently.
While my opponent was legitimately lower-rated, he was certainly much stronger than his actual rating - I would estimate high Class C / low Class B - and I give him props for fighting spirit after suffering a tactical blow, then taking full advantage of my blunders, with the game effectively over after the sequence starting on move 27.
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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3 g6 4.e5 Bg7 5.Bd3 Nh6 5...c5= 6.Ne2 Bf5?! 6...c5 6...0-0 7.Ng3?! 7.g4!? 7.h4 7...Bxd3 8.Qxd3 0-0= 8...e6 8...f6 9.exf6 exf6 10.Qe2+ Kf7 9.0-0 f6 10.f4 f5?! 10...c5 11.c3 11.dxc5 fxe5 12.fxe5 e6 13.Bxh6 Bxh6 14.c4 Qc7 15.cxd5 Qxc5+ 16.Kh1 Rxf1+ 17.Qxf1 exd5 11...cxd4 12.cxd4 Nc6= 11.Bd2± Nd7 12.Bb4?! 12.h3 12.a4 12...a5 13.Ba3 b5 14.c3 Nb6 14...Re8!? 15.Nd2 Re8 15...Nc4!? 16.b3± Bf8 17.c4?! 17.Bc5 e6 18.Ne2± Bxc5?! 19.dxc5 Nd7 20.b4 17...dxc4 18.bxc4 b4= 19.Bb2 19.c5!? 19...e6 20.c5? Bxc5 20...Nd5 21.Nc4± 21.Rac1 Na4 21...Bf8 22.Rxc6 Nd5-+ 22.Ba1 Nc3?! 22...Rc8 22...Qd5 23.Bxc3 bxc3 24.Nb3?! 24.Nf3 Bb4 25.Ne2 24...Bb4= 25.Ne2 c5 26.Rfd1?! a4? 26...c4! 27.Qxc4 Ng4 28.Qd3 a4 29.Na1 Qh4!-+ 26...cxd4= 27.Nxc5 Qd5? 27...Qa5!± 28.h3 28.Nxc3?! Bxc5 29.dxc5 Qxc5+= 28...Bxc5 29.dxc5 Qxc5+ 30.Kh2 Nf7 31.Rxc3 Qf2! 28.Nxc3+- Bxc3 29.Rxc3 Qxa2 30.Ra3+- Qd5 31.Rxa4 Rab8 32.Qc4 Qxc4 33.Rxc4 Ng4 34.Rc3 Rb2 35.Rdc1 Rd2 36.h3 Nf2 37.R3c2 Rxc2 38.Rxc2 Nd1 39.Nd7 Re7 40.Nf6+ Kg7 41.Rc8 h5 42.Rg8+ Kf7 43.Rh8 Nc3 44.Rh7+ Kf8 45.Rxe7 Kxe7 46.Kf2 h4 47.Ke3 Kd8 48.Kd3 Na4 49.d5 exd5 50.Nxd5? 50.Kd4+- 50...Nc5+ 51.Kc4 Ne4?? 51...Ne6!= 52.Kb5 Kd7 53.Nf6+ Kc7= 52.Nf6 Ng3 53.Kd5 Ne2 54.Kd6 Nxf4 55.e6 Nxe6 56.Kxe6 Kc7 57.Nd7 1–0
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