One of the fascinating features of chess is that in many situations, no matter how far ahead you are in material or position, you can be just a single bad move away from defeat. It's not just any old bad move, either; it's actually the worst move you can make at that moment in time. I call moves like this implosion moves. It's instructive how the time pressure of blitz can cause these moves to bubble up to the surface. Last night, in my fourth game, I made an implosion move in the middle game. I was up a rook and three pawns, and could have safely made nearly any move other than the one I chose. I advanced a pawn, allowing my opponent's bishop on the long diagonal to capture a knight for free. Worse, my opponent now had a double attack on the pawn directly in front of my king; in trying to defend it, I got my queen into a "capture net". She fell several moves later, and I was forced to resign. The night did hold some good news, however; I won one more game than I lost :-)
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