I played my fourth round in the Club Championship and won. I thought I was doing fine and then my opponent sacrificed a knight for a couple of central pawns and an open f-file. The computer would have been fine in this position but I wasn't! The tactical complications were too much.
I played a bad move and after e5 I spent ages trying to find a good response and failed. All I could see was diagonals opening up for his queen and bishop to complement his open file. So I sacrificed a piece back and got the queens off and started over again. I was able to win from when my opponent later dropped a piece.
That's after bringing me back to 50% in the tournament. I'm still down a few rating points but they won't be taken into account until the tournament completes so I have time to try to win them back.
→ posted on February 24, 2017chess