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Minecraftado Destroys Your Opponent's Psychologist by Delivering the Lady at Bid 13

Okay, he made a lot of mistakes and could have captured the lady at bid 12 for free, but it was a beautiful match with a spectacular ending.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, right?

12...Qe6 was a blunder, 13 Qe2 was a blunder, 13...Qxb3 was a blunder (not even a hint of being a sound sacrifice). You didn't "destroy" your opponent, he had the game in his pocket for the next 30 moves and lost because he missed 43. Qxc4, which would have crushed you for good (I'll grant that the situation another 10 moves later was a bit more complicated).

Congrats for the win, though.
So what you want to say is that because you blundered your queen early in the game, Black was so disturbed that he blundered away his win at a later point?

Uh, well, no.
@Minecraftado It is not always that the outcome matters. In this particular game, which is full of blunders by both sides, you have to analyse and see your mistakes. You didn't sacrifice your queen to get compensation, it is light evident. You had an illusion that I don't now what that could be and you gave up the queen for nothing. This is not sacrifice, it is blunder. What is more, I checked your elo both, and I was relieved to find out that you were both relatively weak players -no offense, every grandmaster was once a beginner. it is fully understandable to make mistakes, but you shouldn't claim that you disturbed your opponent's concentration with that queen "sacrifice". Both of you must have blundered more that 5 times each, I am sure. And I think #8 is a very good sarcastic comment that describes exactly that. At least I hope you improved on your playstyle after this game.
@dark_bishop01
As topalov says: Nowadays a bid is only good if the machine says it is.

The truth is that in the real game there is no such thing as psychology, preparation, ability and creativity. Of course we made mistakes, both of us are beginners, but I'm here to post a game where I did well, not to compare myself to magnus carlsen. anyway thanks for the comment.

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