{"id":1196,"date":"2018-07-11T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2018-07-14T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:45:36","slug":"george-trundle-memorial-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/2018\/07\/george-trundle-memorial-4\/","title":{"rendered":"George Trundle Memorial Round 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today started quite nicely. IM Vishal Sareen and his wife Arty joined me on a walk up to Mt Eden to check out the view. Although it had rained earlier, by late morning it was sunny. <\/p>\n

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As you can see below, a few minutes after the above picture was taken, Auckland showed us it’s volatile temperament. Luckily the sheet of ice cold rain passed as quickly as it appeared.<\/p>\n

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The last two games I lost because I attacked before completing my development and I was very aware of this tendency before my game today, yet I repeated the error. I even spent a bit of time on move 7 contemplating Bg4 just to avoid repeating this error. No, I thought, closed position, I’ll get around to it. Then, when Ben played 8.Ne2 on the very next move, I, of course, couldn’t restrain myself.<\/p>\n

In itself, my response was not too bad, but then I needed to follow up with 13…e3 14.fe3 Be3 15.Kh1 Nc5 with equality. 13…Re8 instead just got me into trouble because I couldn’t open the f file anymore due to the weakness on f7. I thought for about 40 minutes and found a way not to lose immediately and held a draw somehow, although in the final position white was still a bit better if he doesn’t repeat. Qd2 instead of Ne3 is possible.<\/p>\n

Oh well, at least I avoided queenside castling. Notice that the idiot on c8 is still there in the final position.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m playing the top seed, IM Gary Lane, with white. My goal will be to develop all my pieces.<\/p>\n