thanks for sharing your games
game 1 - budapest is not very attractive when all attacking pieces are exchanged shortly after. cannot understand why on earth white exchanged his knight for the bishop
game 2 - his queenside pawn storm was never dangerous and after he made amistake or two on the queenside you finished him off very nicely
game 3 - to play the sac in a rated game otb shows great courage imo. and i agree with you that it looks playable. only sad that you played the continuation so badly
haven't looked at the last two yet
Hi No1.
The Scotch.
You have triggered the old grey matter again.
I have in the past noted up a game with this very line.
("Both sides appear to be losing" comes to mind.)
Will have to have another search.
Better still, stop posting, come across here and rack through my boxes,
take what you want. Then I would not have to punish myself so. 🙂
This bit.
"3W. Never cared for all that memorization required to play the Lopez; the Scotch has given me great results. "
Try playing an opening you have never played before by 'feel'.
I think most of you will be surprised at what you do know and infact
the less you know sometimes the better you can play.
Fresh eyes, new postions, mind on full alert.
Trust yourself.
Most chess players are better than what we think we are, and yet
these same chess players are not as good as what we think we are.
(hey that is not too bad, quite deep, I'll use that again.)