This week's games are by Miroslav Stefanovic, who now lives in Canada. He played chess in his youth but stopped when the wars started in the former Yugoslavia and it wasn't he was in his mid-forties in Canada that he started again.
His national Canadian rating started off as 2000 with a peak of 2200 (as he says, tournaments in Canada are rarely FIDE rated).
All three of his opponents were similarly rated (within 100 points at the time of games being played).
We start with two Agonies. Miroslav has annotated the games in some detail and, as ususal, I've added my comments as 'JS'.
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