After a couple of wins, I managed to lose after blundering my Knight. Here was the position:
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All I needed to do was to retreat my Knight to e6. The evaluation bar showed that I was clearly ahead. After playing my Queen to g5 and checking the White King, I forgot about my Knight and ended up losing it. It was a game with errors on both sides but if I had retreated my Knight my position would have been fairly secure. It just didn't enter my head during the heat of battle.
I need to play more regularly and restrict myself to one game every one or two days. The only way to become battle hardened is play several games daily. I will lose some and win some but over the space of a few weeks I should see my rating slowly climb into the 1600s and maybe even beyond. The lesson to be learned from this game is that KNIGHTS CAN MOVE BACKWARDS.
