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DimBro's Game of the Month: I Got Crushed in 15 Moves at the NJ Open

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I recently played in the famous USCF annual tournament New Jersey Open, playing in the Under 1400 section, where I brutally lost to a nice trap my opponent set early on. Here's my casatrophe in one blog.

Introduction

While attempting to get my rating up and cross 1300 (I was exactly 1299) I stumbled across a 3.5-1.5 position at the tournament with the last round upcoming at the New Jersey Open held in Iselin at a Delta Woodbridge hotel. However, my opponents' Sicilian attack was just too strong here. Here's the game:

My Round 6 Game

https://lichess.org/study/AfxZgygE/QX0GGYrv

Outro

This was embarrassing and it definitely hurt (I went down to 1272 rating USCF) but it was 100% a learning experience. Now I understand more that the point of the Alapin is aggressiveness, and I will definitely watch out for the trap in the future.

Hope that game was content for y'all gng

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