Chess can be a cruel game. You can be winning the entire time, and then one slip and you can throw away a half, or even a full point.
This game is a perfect illustration of that. I was winning a nice game until I got a bit lazy mentally and allowed a perpetual.
My plan to work on this is to solve a lot of “Mate in Two” puzzles from Lazlo Polgar’s book as so many of them deal with restriction themes, which should help me become more aware of which squares are available to pieces.
Til next time,
Chris Wainscott