i played the following games in an open tournament over the weekend.
i've been reading those silman books:

white: me (1307)
black: 2004

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. g3 d6 5. Bg2 Bxc3 6. bxc3 f5 7. d3
Nf6 8.
Qe2 O-O 9. O-O fxe4 10. dxe4 Bg4 11. Qc4+ Kh8 12. Rb1 Rb8 13. Be3 Qe7
14.
Rb2 Be6 15. Qd3 h6 16. Nh4 Kh7 17. Rfb1 b6 18. Nf5 Qd7 19. Nh4 Ng4
20.
f3
Nxe3 21. Qxe3 Na5 22. Bf1 g5 23. Ng2 Qf7 24. a3 Qxf3 25. Qxf3 Rxf3
26.
Bd3
Rbf8 27. Rb4 c5 28. R4b2 Bh3 29. Re1 c4 30. Be2 Rxc3 31. Ra2 Bxg2 32.
Kxg2
Nc6 33. Bd1 Nd4 34. a4 Nc6 35. Bg4 a5 36. Bf5+ Kg7 37. Re2 Nb4 38.
Rb2
Ra3
39. Rd2 Rd8 {White resigns} 0-1


white: me (1307)
black: 2125

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 Bg4 4. h3 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 e6 6. exd5 cxd5 7.
Bb5+ Nc6
8. d4 Bd6 9. Qg4 Qf6 10. Be3 Ne7 11. O-O-O O-O 12. Qe2 Nf5 13. g4
Nfxd4
14.
Bxd4 Nxd4 15. Rxd4 Qxd4 16. Bd3 e5 17. f3 Bb4 18. Nb5 Qf4+ 19. Kb1 a6
20.
Nc3 Bxc3 21. bxc3 Rac8 22. h4 Rxc3 23. g5 Rfc8 24. h5 Qxg5 25. Qf2 h6
26.
Rg1 Qxh5 27. Qe3 g6 28. Kb2 Kg7 29. Qe1 b5 30. Rh1 Qxf3 31. Rf1 Qh5
32.
Be2
Rxc2+ 33. Kb1 Qxe2 {White resigns} 0-1


white: 2101
black: me (1307)

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Qe2 c6 7. Bb3
Bg4
8.
h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 e5 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Be3 Nbd7 12. O-O Kh8 13. Rad1
Qe7
14.
Bg5 h6 15. Bh4 g5 16. Bg3 Rad8 17. Qe3 b6 18. f3 Nh5 19. Bh2 f5 20.
exf5
Rxf5 21. g4 Rf4 22. gxh5 Rh4 23. Kg2 Rxh5 24. Ne4 Nf6 25. Rxd8+ Qxd8
26. Qd3
Qxd3 27. cxd3 Nxe4 28. fxe4 Rh4 29. Rf5 g4 30. hxg4 Rxg4+ 31. Kf3 Rh4
32.
Bxe5 Rh3+ 33. Ke2 Bxe5 34. Rxe5 Rh2+ 35. Ke3 Rxb2 36. Re8+ Kg7 37. e5
a5 38.
e6 Kf6 39. Rf8+ Ke7 40. Rf7+ Ke8 41. Rb7 b5 42. e7 a4 43. Bd1 Rxa2
44.
Bh5#
{Black checkmated}
1-0

What a lovely topic :-)

1C. I watched this expert several times.
Perhaps I payed him also before the
game in the middle of which I had a clear
advantage, perhaps a won position.
I never saw him doing anything on the
chess board. And still, he was close
to becoming a master. When I asked
him about his style he said: I don't have any,
I just push the wood and wait for the other
guy to screw up. And that's what I did.
There was a lull in the action, I didn't know
what to do, and within a couple of moves it
was him who had advantage. He won
again.

***

3. To avoid too much of masochism let me
mention how I won a game agaiinst fairly
strong opponent in the recent days. I felt
that I was better, ahead in development,
and I had a bishop on b7 against his knight.
Fortunately I was not satisfied with my
abstract advantage but somehow stopped to
think strategically. I found a way to get
rid of central pawns and in the open position
I won quickly and painlessly (for me, I don't
know about the opponent). Wow!

4. Back to masochism. Just before a dental
appointment I played two 7m games on
Internet against a decent player but he was
not too strong and had lower than me rating.
I won the first game alright and had a clear
advantage in the second game. There was
one file open, we each had Q+R+B of the
same color, his pawns were locked on
the bishop color. I pressed an attack, made
the position dangerous for both of us, then
after not paying enough attention to his
attack I got checkmated. I left for the dentis
with the impression that I overlooked his
decisive move but otherwise I was suppossed
to win (his king was a step from a disaster).

After the dentist appointment, with the inner
components of my face in much better shape
I finally got the real reason why I lost. My
attacking his king was a strategical error!!!
I could feel it during the game. I had no
confidence making my attack, I felt uneasy
about it, but at the time I didn't see any other
way to win the game. So, I won it for my opponent.

Instead of attacking his king, I should
get my heavy artillery on the single
existing open file. That would force the exchange
of the Q+R or else I would control the file and
the game. After the exchange, I would have
easy time in the ending. That's were my advantage
really was.

Well, now I am a better strategist :-)

Regards,

Wlod

I was thinking later about that game.
My conclusion was that there came
a moment in the game, after I have
achieved quite a bit, when it was like
in the opening again, I had to develop
my pieces. It didn't matter that age
wise, after 20 or so moves, it was
an advanced middle game. There was nothing
better to do than simply develope my pieces
again.