Mirandela Open 2022 - Round 1
tags: [chess]
TL&DR: My return has been ridden with issues, decided to go to Mirandela Open 2022, and lost the first game for the same reasons as always. Talking about the experience
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Results
Mirandela Open 2022 - General Results
Number of rounds: 9
+ 2 - 4 = 3
Points: 3.5 / 9
Balance: -2
Rating Change: 12.4
Round 1
Date: 2022-08-17 20:30
Result: 0
Rating Change: -1.6
Opponent
Librelato, Kathie Goulart
Fide ID: 2153963
Playing as: black
Title: WIM
Observations: 2nd board for Brazillian Female 2022 Olympiad team
The Game
All games can be found here
We played a Berlin Defense, which I wasn’t too scared of, as my analysis of Carlsen, Anand, and Kramnik games went deep, some couple years ago. We ended up transposing to a strange Steinitz.
My opponent blundered, and blundered good. It’s normal, as it’s the first round of the tournament, and people are tired. God, I know I was.
After 14. Nd5, I know I’m winning, but after 14. … Qh4, I started panicking. My analysis doesn’t limit itself to this, yet I’m too tired to write it down here, maybe I’ll update it after the tournament.
The gist is that I panicked, and started seeing ghosts, and completely floundered my chance for a nice game afterwards. The same problem remains, I’m not very disciplined mentally, and mostly when it comes about classic chess.
I’ll try my best for the rest of the tournament, because it was really a pity. My opponent was an Olympiad player, and this could’ve been a game to remember on a better note.
As Camus used to say, be like Sisyphus, and smile towards adversity.
Aftermath
Lost a game that could’ve been great, but I still got 8 rounds to go.
EDITED:
- 2023-06-02 23:52:30 +0000
- Change location of EDITED
- 2022-08-22 14:11:33 +0100
- Edited results section
- 2022-08-21 23:44:04 +0100
- Added chess board