This time the nature of loss is natural. In the eight round of 3rd King's chess foundation Chennai, I was point 6 playing on board number 5. Obviously my opponent, a young talented Prasannaa was a better player in terms of rating as well as tournament experience.
Though in that particular game, he was in big trouble. The opening was a Sveshnikov variation of the Sicilian and I choosed a sideline starting with the move 6. Nf5 instead of the main line 6. Ndb5 which I and hundreds of other players including elite Grandmasters play.
I missed lots of winning moves, in my defense I would say it's time pressure though the game was 60 mins + 30 secs increment. When the critical moment arose, I saw my clock with few seconds left so I made a few second best moves and got some increments on the clock but then started thinking. What I was thinking was the real cause of my painful defeats.
That game had serious psychological consequences for me, in the next 9th round paired against 1704 Sriram, a young boy. I thought I could beat him without effort but gosh I was wrong. The young boy had an aspiration of becoming a Grandmaster one day and took full advantage of my poisonless series of moves and again put me in a situation where the author was desperately fighting for a draw.
In the bishops of same color ending, at one moment my fight for draw was almost achieved. I choosed the wrong diagonal for my bishop and lost, yet another defeats which caused me to lose 11.85 elo points. If only this ends but no one more defeat to come. In the 10th round, I was paired against unrated ( Varun Kumar), this time 99.9 percent sure I'll beat him. During the game I remembered that I forgot to switch of my phone, it was in my pocket. God I couldn't concentrate if the phone rings then forfeit according to new FIDE rules, i was white attacking against the petroff, full control of the center, smelling a new victory after two painful defeats. Distracted, at last I got up and move here and there and then pressed my power of button for 5 secs and put my mobile to sleep.
That really helped because I saw all my pieces hovering near my opponent's king, he didn't tremble nor showed any fear and simply moved a little faster than me unlikely of an inexperienced tournament player. I lost my patience and sac a rook on e6 not realizing that he had Kf7 defending his rook on e6, my B and Q was on f5 and g4 respectively whereas his Q is on d7. I lost yet again. This lost means complete loss of hope for entering main prizes even though I play like a Champion.
After the tournament when I reached my place I had only 10 rupees with my bank account 67 rupees, totally broke yet again.
Though in that particular game, he was in big trouble. The opening was a Sveshnikov variation of the Sicilian and I choosed a sideline starting with the move 6. Nf5 instead of the main line 6. Ndb5 which I and hundreds of other players including elite Grandmasters play.
I missed lots of winning moves, in my defense I would say it's time pressure though the game was 60 mins + 30 secs increment. When the critical moment arose, I saw my clock with few seconds left so I made a few second best moves and got some increments on the clock but then started thinking. What I was thinking was the real cause of my painful defeats.
That game had serious psychological consequences for me, in the next 9th round paired against 1704 Sriram, a young boy. I thought I could beat him without effort but gosh I was wrong. The young boy had an aspiration of becoming a Grandmaster one day and took full advantage of my poisonless series of moves and again put me in a situation where the author was desperately fighting for a draw.
In the bishops of same color ending, at one moment my fight for draw was almost achieved. I choosed the wrong diagonal for my bishop and lost, yet another defeats which caused me to lose 11.85 elo points. If only this ends but no one more defeat to come. In the 10th round, I was paired against unrated ( Varun Kumar), this time 99.9 percent sure I'll beat him. During the game I remembered that I forgot to switch of my phone, it was in my pocket. God I couldn't concentrate if the phone rings then forfeit according to new FIDE rules, i was white attacking against the petroff, full control of the center, smelling a new victory after two painful defeats. Distracted, at last I got up and move here and there and then pressed my power of button for 5 secs and put my mobile to sleep.
That really helped because I saw all my pieces hovering near my opponent's king, he didn't tremble nor showed any fear and simply moved a little faster than me unlikely of an inexperienced tournament player. I lost my patience and sac a rook on e6 not realizing that he had Kf7 defending his rook on e6, my B and Q was on f5 and g4 respectively whereas his Q is on d7. I lost yet again. This lost means complete loss of hope for entering main prizes even though I play like a Champion.
After the tournament when I reached my place I had only 10 rupees with my bank account 67 rupees, totally broke yet again.
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