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Originally Posted by Ajezz
The first game was very interesting and could have gone either way.
In the second one I was feeling very good at about move 20. But around move 30 my position was lost and I didn't even know why. I felt outplayed... In the end I was close to resigning my disgusting rest of a position. If you play something like 38...Kf3 instead of Nf2 I almost am in zugzwang.
Compared to the ratings of other people on that site: If you stop dropping rooks your rating there should be 200 to 300 points higher (based on how you played your games against me).
To be honest, I wasn't sure that trying to force the pawn through the center would accomplish as much as it did when I started down that route but it seemed the only viable plan. I didn't consider much more than Nf2. My thought process was something along the lines of "winning the exchange can't be bad here" :/
No excuse for following it up with two of the worst possible moves though.
My OTB is just over 1700 (small sample size in ELO tournaments. Used to ECF gradings which convert to around the same..) so I'd imagine that my rating there should be at least that if I actually concentrated on every move of every game but that just doesn't happen.