Speelman's Agony #70

A helping hand for Hobart

This week's pair of games come from Lee Phillips, who is from Hobart, in Tasmania. He writes:

I've been playing chess for over ten years, but only started studying the game seriously over the past couple of years. I like technology, photography and gardening but if I had a time machine, I'd like to go back and start playing chess from an earlier age so I'd be a lot better today. I like to play games that are 15min with a 5 second increment. Even though we can't change our past, we can shape our future with the decisions we make now, and at the age of 43, I've decided to work harder at the game of chess so I can improve and become a better player. Obviously, on the way to improving we learn a few hard lessons, but it's all because we love the game of chess and that's why we're here.

As you'd expect, his two fifteen minute online games include a number of mistakes. But the thing that shines through both is the necessity of fighting to the very end and that is crucial to all chess playing.

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