2012 Olympiad

[HLang]

@Heather, unlucky : ( but well done anyway overall I would like to know what the preparation was for the critical game though?

I realised that my usual repertoire vs her usual repertoire would lead to a fairly turgid position where it would be difficult to play for a win. Sarunas suggested a setup that would lead to an unbalanced position and after he'd shown me some games I decided to play it. As it was new to me (where "it" = move 1 and beyond), I spent the day before the game looking at the middlegames that would result from white's best responses. It worked, in that she didn't play any of the most challenging setups, and by move 6 I'd already equalised. So the opening was a complete success - it was only later on that I started missing things.