Welcome to the third name change for the weekly installment of chess news, reviews, and my personal game annotations here at OffMyChess.com! This column began earlier in the year as *My Chess Week* and soon morphed into *OMC Weekly*, which in-turn gave rise to the *Off My Chess Quarterly* publication. Unfortunately, after a few weeks of giving it a serious try, I am not certain that *OMC Weekly* catches the essence of what I am trying to do with the column. Therefore, I have renamed the weekly entry *OffMyChess.com Weekend Review*, or *OMC Weekend Review* for short. The format and intent of this column will remain the same.
This was a very busy week and chess playtime was at a premium. Work was exhausting, so there was little time at the end of the day in which I felt that I could effectively devote to playing. However, the nights that I was able to sit down and play some blitz games were much better than my previous efforts. I hit a blitz ELO high of 890 recently, but that was briefly before I watched my ELO **plunge** to a dismal 715. Fortunately, it has been slowly rising back up as I seem to have found my niche again and continue study my openings and work on my tactics.
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[Event “Live Chess”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2014.09.30”]
[Round “?”]
[White “690”]
[Black “AmishHacker”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “690”]
[BlackElo “770”]
[PlyCount “64”]
[EventDate “2014.??.??”]
[TimeControl “5”]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 {This has become a pretty standard response for me to 2.exd5 and it has given me some promising results.} 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. d4 Nc6 5. Bf4 Bf5 6. Nb5 {White is planning to fork my Queen and Rook while preventing the King from capturing on f2 because it is protected by the Bishop. Fortunately, I have fallen for this trick before and reinforced the f2 square with my h1 Rook.} Rc8 7. Na3 {White decided that the f2 exchange would have come him too much and backed off.} e6 8.
g4 Be4 9. f3 Bd5 10. c4 Bxa3 11. bxa3 {This was an exchange anticipating a Bxc4 followup with 12.Bxc4 and Nxd4, preventing further trades because of Queen protection for the e5 square.} Bxc4 12. Bxc4 Nxd4 {Just as planned.} 13. Nh3 Ne7 14. Bg5 b5
15. Bd3 Qd5 16. Be4 Qe5 17. Qd2 O-O 18. Bxe7 Rfe8 19. Ng5 Rxe7 20. f4 Nf3+ {Defending my Queen by forking White’s King and Queen.} 21.
Ke2 Nd4+ 22. Ke3 Qc5 {Queen to safety.} 23. Bxh7+ Kf8 24. Rac1 Nb3+ {White is trying desperately to trap my Queen, but I am being extremely cautious not to fall into his traps.} 25. Kd3 Qd4+ {A skewer and White’s Queen is history.} 26. Ke2 Qxd2+ 27.
Kf3 Nxc1 {I took his Rook with the anticipation that he would recklessly respond with 28.Rxc1, but it never happened.} 28. f5 Qe2+ {Setting up the final assault.} 29. Kg3 Qe3+ 30. Kh4 Qf2+ 31. Kh5 g6+ {Another element of my blockade.} 32. Kh6 Qh4# 0-1
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