This past week, I had the opportunity to play a good player who is close to my rating. Given my current rating this isn't something that occurs that often in the club so I was pretty excited about it. With the two hours per side, I was hoping for nice long game with a lot of complications, something I could really dig into and have fun with. But, that was not the case. Instead I resigned after 15 moves because I couldn't stand to look at the position any longer.
After it was over, Jim sat down and showed me that my second move was bad (1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Bg4??) And from there it went down hill. So, other than being complete annoyed at myself for two full days, I have decided on two main items.
The first will be to learn to play something against Nf3 so I don't lose so quickly and the second is to play ever game for the rest of the year out until either I get checkmated, it is a draw or I win. This second item will be most difficult I fear as I tend to resign positions that I believe are completely lost but I think this is something that I need to do to become a better player.
I guess I will have to see about that. But until then, time to hit the book and see what Larry Kaufman has recommended against Nf3 in "The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White". This is my opening logic book as of now.
Have fun...
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