Picture 2 - A scene from "Gamlebyen" Fredrikstad
Game 5 - My opponent asks for a draw, I decline... and loose.
Once again I have the white pieces, and once again I play to defensively. My opponent Christian Poppe starts a very early attack which puts my castled position into shambles. But just before the attack, he asks for a draw. And what can I say? I am used to playing in cramped positions, I have gained a pawn on him, and if I can only ride it out for a little while longer, I will be fine. I decline. But I never recover. In the end I am hoping for a draw by three-fold-repetition and possibly checking his king with my queen for 50 moves, but it never happens.
I never get my own attack started. Torstein Bae, International master with a FIDE rating over 2400 analizes my games. And once again he tells me that I got to stop blocking in my bishop with my pawns. When it comes to accepting or declining the proposed draw, he tells me that even though I am a pawn ahead, with a deadly attack hitting my casatled position from all sides, without any way to actually get out of the line of fire... I should have accepted the draw.
This is my second, and luckily my last defeat during this tournament. And if there isn't some very special circumstances telling me otherwise, this is the last time I will play this defensively with the white pieces. "Inverted Philidor" with white. Who does that, except me?
0000 Gaute Michel Ferstad, Trondheim, White, 0
1168 Christian Koyama Poppe, 1911, Black, 1
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