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Today, I played a great game with my morning coffee where the battle was won in the midgame. I’m at the stage of my chess learning that I’m often “okay” out of the opening, but still fairly dodgy in the midgame. Often, it comes down to whether my opponent or I make the most mistakes, or the most critical mistakes. In this game, I entered the end game up a full piece and clinched the victory.

In this game, the opponent didn’t punish me for some inaccurate moves, which made all the difference in the end. One of the learnings that I took out of this game is that I need to keep an eye out for hanging pieces and need to be careful of some tunnel vision of a pre-thought series of moves. I hope you enjoyed this video, and thanks for watching!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/32480440421

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2021.12.05"]
[Round "?"]
[White "clemhtz"]
[Black "vitualis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C24"]
[WhiteElo "1161"]
[BlackElo "1151"]
[TimeControl "1800"]
[EndTime "14:31:38 PST"]
[Termination "vitualis won by checkmate"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. exd5 Nxd5 5. Qf3 c6 6. Nc3 Be6 7. Qe4 Nxc3 8. bxc3 Qf6 9. Nf3 Bd6 10. Bg5 Qf5 11. Bxe6 Qxe4+ 12. dxe4 fxe6 13. O-O-O Ba3+ 14. Kb1 O-O 15. Nxe5 Rxf2 16. Rd8+ Rf8 17. Rxf8+ Kxf8 18. Rf1+ Ke8 19. Rf7 Bf8 20. Rxb7 h6 21. Be3 Bd6 22. Bd4 c5 23. Nf7 Be7 24. Bxg7 Kxf7 25. Bxh6 Nc6 26. Bg5 Rb8 27. Rxb8 Nxb8 28. Bxe7 Kxe7 29. h4 Nd7 30. h5 Nf6 31. h6 Nh7 32. g4 Kf7 33. Kc1 Kg6 34. Kd2 Kxh6 35. Ke3 Kg5 36. Kf3 e5 37. c4 Nf6 38. Ke3 Nxg4+ 39. Kd3 a5 40. Kc3 Nf6 41. Kb3 Nxe4 42. Ka4 Nd6 43. Kxa5 e4 44. Kb6 e3 45. Kxc5 Ne4+ 46. Kd4 Kf4 47. Kd3 Kf3 48. a4 Nc5+ 49. Kd4 Nxa4 50. c5 Nxc5 51. Kxc5 e2 52. c4 e1=Q 53. Kb6 Qb4+ 54. Ka7 Qxc4 55. Ka8 Qf7 56. Kb8 Ke4 57. Ka8 Kd5 58. Kb8 Kc6 59. Ka8 Qb7# 0-1