It's Finally Over

Since hitting 2400 in July of 2025, in a little over 7 months I played 1062 games. Out of those I won 538 (50,7%), lost 417 (39,3%) and drew 107 (10,1%). I fetched all the games from chess.com's API in a public google sheets document, so if for whatever reason you are curious about more details you can check it out.

Playing so many games let me try out a few different openings and get a sense of which ones I actually liked. Most notably the Modern Defence and the Nimzowitsch. I really enjoyed 1...g6 against 1.d4, but the positions against 1.e4 or 2.e4 are really difficult to play, so I decided to not stick with it as my main weapon.

The Nimzowitsch on the other hand. I fell in love with it. Plus the stats speak for themselves. I won my last 10 consecutive games in it! I faced 2.Nc3, arguably the most annoying answer, 7 times winning Every. Single. Game. I have a 60% winrate in the Colorado Countergambit winning my last 8 games, including the final game for 2500!

Since I glazed the Nimzowitsch so hard, I have to show you some games right? I just wish I had saved more games throughout the push. Okay, enough talking, let's get you waht you came for.

Game 1 — Perfect Colorado

Starting with the game in the greatest opening to ever be opened — The Colorado Countergambit!

It's kinda crazy, that despite being down an exchange and 2 pawns I can trade the queens and still be completely winning due to my activity. I mean look at the position on move 15. White has 0 developed pieces. But you don't have to go crazy with 2...f5 to get positions this dynamic in the Nimzowitsch.

Game 2 — Aggresive Nimzo-Scandi

You can also find many tactical opportunities out of seemingly normal positions in the Advance Nimzowitsch all thanks to the open f-file.

Before we move on to 2 positional games I played, that I'm really proud aswell, I want to share a heart-breaker game, which could be my immortal if the tactic worked out.

Game 3 — </3

Just imagine Qxb6 works... Enough with the fireworks, let me show you how I squeezed 2 Caro players!

Games 4&5 — Botvinik-Carls is so free

I remember when switching my weapon against the Caro-Kann I was heavily considering the Advance Variation, but was afraid of 3...c5. If you have this feeling aswell, these 2 games will be very instructive.

And if you are curious how to deal with the e6–d4 idea:

So if you want to give Advanced Caro a try I also briefly covered the Bf5 line here.

What's next?

I'm so happy it's finally over. Having this 2500 goal in the back of my mind since hitting it at the end of July last year. Especially since next month I flew all the way up to over 2450. It was difficult for me to commit to literally anything, as I had this in the back of my mind for over half a year. With multiple days where I played over 20 rapid games it's safe to say it's wasn't a very healthy experience. But now it's finally over. Finally. Over.

I want to show you 2 classical games, which I'm really proud of (spolier: one in Colorado). Post analysis on an Anti-London and look deeper into the Nimzowitsch Defence. In the meantime continuing the 100 games experiement. Here's the study link with the games, and here are random openings. Bye!