One the hard way

In blitz, as in many areas of life, you can do things the easy way or you can do them the hard way. I try to embrace the easy way, but that's not always so easy :-) On Saturday night, I made things hard on myself by digging a hole; I lost the first three games I played. There was no excuse for how I lost the first game; I failed to recognize a trap I'd fallen into less than a week before, fell into it again, and lost in seven moves again. At least the game wasn't a carbon copy of the earlier one; actually, it was worse. In the earlier game, I'd gone down the exchange and was about to lose a knight with no compensation; in the later one, I faced mate on the next move. In both cases, the only sensible thing to do was resign.

I buckled down after the first three games, won the next three, and quit for the night. I gained a solitary rating point for my troubles. That's what I call one the hard way :-)

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