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Reporting in from the front lines... _and the world's stupidest trapping of a queen. In the middle of a board, middle of the game, my ridiculous queen is just trapped.

Pathetic.

Oh, that hurts... I’ve been through similar situations too.

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I completely blundered my queen. I took the bishop and totally forgot it was protected by Black’s queen... 😅

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3 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 7 May

Here I am first blundering by not taking the opponent's queen:

And then I blundered my queen haha

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This makes me sad because I know that in 2 seconds I could do it too

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3 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 8 May

I've made mistakes like these so many times and still ended up having close games that I've actually come to enjoy the uphill battle.

I think it's the psychological aspect of it: the opponent thinks they have the upper hand, but I'm just waiting for them to get too confident and make a mistake as well. For example, later on I was able to fork his queen with my knight, see game (33 .. Kf3+)

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that was a beautiful rook sacrifice, but I'm curious: why that opening?

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3 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8 May
that was a beautiful rook sacrifice

Thanks!

why that opening?

You mean 2 .. b5? I don't remember what I was thinking. I was surprised by 1 b4.

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his was actually a bad opening and yours was fine until you hanged the pawn in b5, you let that free and pinned the knigth, You recovered well, the match was balanced :D

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Ooooh nooo. Tragedy strikes, again and again

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I thought you were good?

Just kidding.

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Not every game... And been sucking ass recently

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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @Taft OP 7 May

Which one of us, me or @denlillaapan? 😅

I’m actually pretty good. But when you play all night long, a few distractions are understandable...

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I was talking about grandmaster den.

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