My experience from Hivechess Tournament Season 15 Round 4

What I do like in hive chess tournaments from Hive account@stayoutoftherz is that they motivate me to increase my chess rating and improve my chess mastery :)

Last Thursday I played very bad, my performance was really not what I able to show:

After comparing it with my statistics on lichess:

I've decided to set myself a goal to achieve 1700 rating in blitz chess games.

But first I want to thank all players who won against me in the last tournament because they showed my weaknesses.

So, first, thank you Hive account@lighteye !

Here I played Black and wanted to save my pawn and bishop that were under attack that made such stupid move with the knight instead of simple a5 ) After that my oponent attacked my knight with Bc4 and that predermined the result of the game.

Conclusion: I need to paractice more middlegame puzzles!)

Next comes the game with Hive account@agreste :) He, no doudts, was much better the me that day and had no problems with winning the game.

Here, I again played Black, and undervalued the upcoming attack on my king. After I made such mistake white Bishop took my pawn at e6 and I've lost my Queen.

Conclusion: it is better overestimatate then undervalue threats of your opponent )

Then I also managed to lose against @M_schumacherf1:

Here I played White and for victory I needed to make a check by Queen with Qe6 . Lichess told after that there should not be any problems :) But I moved g3 , made another several blunders and finally managed to lose the game.

Conclusion: need to improove tactics scills

Opponets with rating > 2000 are often hard to play with. With Hive account@tortyllan ( 2056) where I played white I made major mistake in such position:

Here I had to take black bishop with my knight and maybe after that I had decent chances for the draw, but I proceeded with the pawn...

Conclusion: don't hurry uo with moves :)

With @GVillalobos (2103) , where I played Black, I made mistake here:

I should protect the the pawn because after loosing it checkmate became unavoidable.

Conclusion: need to improve middlegame and endgame

And the last lesson was lindly presented me by Hive account@schamangerbert, one of my favorite players I like to play with. I played black and during the game everyone has own blunders and advantages.

Here all I needed was to move d5 and then d4 but instead I lost advantage by d2 .

Conclusion: don't hurry up with passing pawn :)

Now I prepare for the tournament in next Thursday by solving puzzles and improve my weak sides :)

And hope to meet you there in interesing game!

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