Agony & Ecstasy #110
A couple of months ago, I showed some games here by John Isaac Torres-Piccio who is from Bacoor south of Manilla, in the Philippines.
John, who is in his late twenties (27, a couple of months ago) recently started playing chess again after a gap of about 7 years. He sent me several games then and has now sent another tranche.
Seven years is a long time not to play and there are a number of serious errors and also a few mouse slips. But he reached some very interesting positions on the way and so here is another batch. The notes are all mine.
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