Having played 10 rounds of the Hive chess tournament, I can boldly say I have improved my chess skills. Not only have I been able to get used to playing under pressure, but I have also learnt how to keep up with higher-rated players, even though most of the times in this competition, most of my losses came from higher-rated players, but the good part of everything is that every time I play with Higher rated players, I learn a new thing from them. For instance, whenever I play with the host, Stayoutoftherz, I have tendencies to make blunders. So, I try to play carefully, yet steadily. The 10th round of the Hive Chess tournament wasn't so bad. Although my network messed with me a bit, I managed to play good games. As usual, I’ll be reviewing my games in this post.
My first game was against Kon, a much lower-rated player. I have played with him a couple of times in this tournament (most games of which I beserked) and didn't lose to him once. Although he is a lower-rated player who keeps getting paired with higher-rated players, he keeps joining the tournament. I love his spirit. Unfortunately, he didn't move for the whole 3 minutes and I won the game. I guess he forgot about the tournament.
Next, I got paired with Tortyllan. Tortyllan is one of the top players in this tournament. Ever since I started playing in Hive chess tournament, we have played 11 games with 9 wins to him, 1 to me, and a draw. Yesterday, I made a blunder and he capitalized on it- I put my queen diagonally in front of my king. The image below describes my blunder. After that, I just knew there was no point playing on so I resigned.
Next, I got paired with AMMORYT1, another lower-rated player. To gather enough points, I knew I had to win against all the lower-rated players I got paired with. I didn't take any chances in winning my games against them. The first blunder he made was to leave a pawn hanging. After capturing the pawn, I forked his queen and King with my Knight. Who doesn't like Knight Forks? He resigned afterward. Sweet win.
My 6th game was against Vasigo. Vasigo and I have played a total of 11 games (since I started playing in the Hive Chess tournament, with 9 wins to me and 2 to him. I played better against him in yesterday’s game. 1 had 0 mistakes, 0 blunders, and just 1 inaccuracy. Unfortunately for him, he blundered one of his officials. Knowing I had more materials, I started playing offensively. I won my game against him.
I also played against top players like Jonbellion fan and Stayoutoftherz. I suppose yesterday’s round was the last round of this season (season 19). During this break, the goal is to train well and come back stronger,
All gifs in this post are from the Lichess app.
Thanks for reading.
