Following my early fiasco, we had two good wins with Mejdanblues winning material in another fairly wild game and then holding on to capitalise in a Bishop ending, and blackk playing an attractive if speculative sacrifice and winding things up with a mating attack.
In the last game Mapleleaf went down to his +300 rated opponent on board 1, but with the match drawn we got to play spoiler - schoolofhippopotami needed the win to make the play-offs ahead of MonkeyClub2000.
Current_Affairs mid-table finish was a creditable performance considering one of our team members (who shall remain nameless...) failed to make an impact on the scoreboard, and we were significantly out-rated on most boards in the majority of our matches.
What can I learn from my +0-5=0 result this season? Against DarthDaver and ValenceJordan the basic error was being over-hasty trying to simplify to nullify an attack. Against squib I avoided a key line because I was unable to calculate it confidently and failed to consider a couple of candidate moves. The dzomba game was the only one I made a really gross blunder (leaving a piece en prise) which was disguised by the complications, and I failed to sufficiently evaluate an important move due to mis-calculating tactics. The final game against mrundersun was again a mis-calculation of tactics, failing to notice the simple tactical motif of an unprotected and immobilised piece (after Nxg7 in the analysis).
I guess that makes the work ahead pretty clear...
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