Game of the Week
Getting the full point in a game you're dominating
Welcome back to game of the week! As always, these are the ground rules:
Game of the Week is not a brilliancy prize. In fact, you’re more likely to have your game chosen if you share a loss. These often have more to teach us than our wins.
The player whose game is selected for Game of the Week will get a free month’s paid subscription. Just to sweeten the pot a little.
I will only consider submissions in the comments section of this post for Game of the Week. It’s just easier for me to have them all in one place.
As always, the video and Lichess Study analysis are available for everyone, but only paid subs can submit games.
On to the game! This week’s game comes from Nigel Smith, who will receive a free additional one month paid sub. Nigel was running circles around his lower rated opponent, but lost the thread at a key moment and ultimately had to settle for a draw. Let’s see how he could have gotten the full point.
I'm cheekily presuming that the free introductory month counts as a paid sub for the purposes of game of the week :-) This is a recent game and although I won, it was only due to a late game oversight from my opponent. I am particularly interested in whether you think I could have played the middlegame strategy focussing on the e4 square more incisively, or whether I should have done something entirely different. It felt to me like I was doing ok, but not really winning, until my opponent's big error (after which I think I did a pretty good job of mopping up). https://lichess.org/TF7iPddxgRKE
https://lichess.org/study/IemV6nTr
Here is my submission for Game of the Week. It was from one of my OTB games from this summer and I think it shows a nice struggle between material vs active piece play. Im pretty proud of it, even though I lost.