Ok, so apparently mirroring your opponent’s moves is not a good idea. There I was trying to find someone to play a slow game online (which is impossible at times). I had my seek ad up and this guy decides he will accept the ad and not actually abort the game. He was rated exactly 300 points below me at 1624. He is white, I’m black.
1. Nc3 Nf6
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 d5
4. Bf4 Bf5
5. e3 e6
6. Bd3 Bxd3
7. cxd3 Bd6
The endgame wound up with us both having a rook, knight, and five pawns. Our kings were on the kingside, each of us had our three pawns in their original positions on f-g-h. His queenside pawns were on d-b and mine on d-a. The entire middlegame was tense and very tight between the square a2-d2 and a6-d6. This game taught me that I am no positional player because I was left with hardly any forcing tactics. I was never comfortable in the middle game. I wound up blundering my a pawn when I could have had his d pawn. I resigned at move 56. I think I could have won on time because he only had 12 mins left and I had 33 or so out of the original 75 mins, and he couldn’t seem to muster the energy to break through. We were shifting back and forth with rook and king moves.
I think each game is a lesson, especially a loss. The moral of this story? Don’t horse around because of someone’s lower rating. Being an idiot and playing that opening bull lost the game for me, and 27 points!
Symmetry doesn’t work!
P.S. I knew this game was going to hurt as soon as we each had doubled pawns on d3-d4 and d5-d6.
Symmetry doesn’t work!
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