Road to 2500 - Day 10 - Scandinavian defense against Gothamchess - Levy Rozman

Yesterday We had a rest day in the Olympiad Expo Classic Tournament and I decided to play in the Titled Tuesday Tourney. In the first round I played with Gothamchess, Levy Rozman the biggest chess youtuber.

Ha suprised me with the Scandinavian defense. I got a small edge in the beginning, but I played too passively and I missed a counter-attack. I sacrificed my d4 pawn, but I could not recapture it because I missed the Qa1xh1 threat.

Then I wanted to quickly develop and missed another double-attack on my pawns.

Then I lose one more pawn and won back one. In the endgame Levy nicely converted his advantage.

In the next 10 games I tried many new things in the openings and generally got very good positions, but because of lack of experience I made mistakes in the middlegame and sometimes lost because of lack of time. I need more practice for the new things. Still I prefer to lost online blitz games to practice and then won over the board.

You can watch the video about the game: 

You can watch round 3-11 games in this video:

I created a few training exercises from the game:

Yesterday I lost 28 points. 

Starting rating: 2423

Current rating: 2445

          Change: +22

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