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@flippy33, First of all I am not nearly as smart as CK_1886. However, since he is going to be very busy playing in 2016 Ontario Chess Championship for 12 hours a day for the next three days I will try to help you myself.
You were too greedy. You should have focused on queening the pawn instead for saving all the material. Starting move 61, I would have just moved the pawn forward like this:
http://en.lichess.org/Op16Z0tq/white
Your final blunder was stalemating king in the end. You should have been aware of possible stalemate and played to avoid it.
Here is a possible continuation:
http://en.lichess.org/SDw4BChW/white
You also missed checkmates by not playing
40. Rd1 or 41. Rd1
You missed forking the rook and king at move 51 by not playing 51. Nb6
In any event Berlin Defence is known as a very solid and drawish opening and grandmasters of drawing like Anish Giri like it a lot. So a draw is a great result! Well played!
CK_1886:
How did you do in 2016 Ontario Chess Championship? I hope you will find time to play long time controls games with me here. I need to practice and I have a difficulty in finding strong opponents. I hope I will be able to play next year in Ontario Chess Championship. I will face very strong opponents there and in Standard Chess tournaments in Mississauga.
Thanks for asking! I thought I did quite well for my rating. All my opponents were 130+ rated above me, yet I managed to score two wins, two draws, and one loss. (I took a bye in the first round because I was in a tennis tournament.) I would enjoy having some training games with you! Unfortunately my schedule is a bit busy so arranging a time to do it might be difficult.
It's amazing that after 3 straight days of non stop chess in a toughest chess tournament in Ontario you are still have strength to play here!
No. :P I was ranked 27th by rating going in, so the odds of winning any money were heavily against me.
Rating doesn't mean much. In last Mississauga Standard U1600 tournament, the winner was rated 1167 and played up from U1200.
However, the players rated over 2600+ always win the open section! So if the rating is really high, the win is guaranteed.

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