Losing the Centre (And My Wits)
Submitted by on Mon, 01/14/2008 at 9:18pm.
Lulled into security by some questionable development by white, I let him gain positional superiority. A couple of blunders do the rest.
To be honest, for most of this game, I thought I was doing well and I thought if I could quietly keep improving my position while choking off white's lanes I had the win in the bag. 21...Ne4?... one simple (and simply wrong) move and everything falls apart and I find myself in the ocean without a lifejacket, grabbing onto anything to keep me afloat. Any additional (constructive) comments are most welcome and appreciated.