Daily Chess Diary

I haven't played a 15+10 game in awhile, but chess.com's new analysis tools motivated me to jump in. Got matched way up in rating but I've been feeling pretty confident lately so I tried not to be intimidated. My position got pressured a little bit from my opponent's early Qf6 and I made a suspicious decision for where to post my dark square bishop and then blundered while trying to defend it. My opponent snapped a pawn thanks to a pin and I went on an offensive. I threw away more material and was clearly losing, but then my opponent blundered back and resigned. I think they could have kept up a more tenacious defense, but I'll take the win!

Decided to interrupt my time-wasting Puzzle Rushing to actually play a game. We went into classical French, which was a nice change of pace from all the random non-theoretical d4 games I've been playing lately. My opponent played an early a3 which felt unnecessary and made it easy to start building up for an attack on d4. They removed a defender and I was able to strike, winning material. As is typical, I struggled to simplify once I was ahead, but I managed to hold out long enough for my opponent to blunder their queen and resign. I suppose I'll take it!