Mate In Six

I MISSED an entertaining mate-in-six in my round three game from the Berks & Bucks Challengers.

White has just played 29.Rh1-h2 in William Golding (1574) - Spanton (1946)

White was losing whatever he played, despite being two pawns up.
The game saw 29...a5 30.f3 e3 31.Rc2 Qxc2+ 32.Qxc2 Rxc2 33.Kxc2 e2 34.Rg1 e1=Q 35.Rxe1 Nxe1+ 36.Kd1 Nxf3 37.h5 a4 1-0
However, in the diagram position, analysis engines give a mate-in-six: 29...Rxb3! 30.axb3 Qc1+ 31.Qxc1 Rxc1+ 32.Ka2 Nb4+ 33.Ka3 Nc2+ 34.Ka4 Ra1#

Bad Run Prolonged

DREW one game (to a 1704/145) and lost the other (to a 1639/148) in the final rounds today of the Berks & Bucks Challengers.
That meant I lost a further 23.2 elo, bringing my tournament loss to 51.4, which reduces my live rating to 1923.6.
Statistically, this may have been my worst tournament ever, narrowly eclipsing the 50.2 elo I lost at Southend last year.
Major adjustments are going to be needed ahead of 'Paignton' next week.
CORRECTION: It appears from the Berks & Bucks website that I actually lost 52.4 elo, bringing my live rating to 1922.6.
Playing blunder chess AND getting simple maths wrong - I must be tired! Or perhaps I am suffering from a touch of the Tartakowers - the Russian-born, to Austrian parents, grandmaster gave a lecture in which he admitted that, despite his many chess successes, he had never managed to beat a fully healthy opponent (the quote has also been attributed to other masters).

Bugbears Continue

FACED juniors in my two games today at the Berks & Bucks Challengers, beating one (1584 Fide/128 ECF) and losing to the other (1762 Fide/158 ECF).
That gave me an elo loss for the day of 12.8, and 28.2 for the tournament, reducing my live rating to 1946.8.
Once again my twin bugbears - playing too quickly; overestimating my position - played big parts.

Old Bugbears

PLAYING at the 54th Berks & Bucks Congress, where I have been placed in the Challengers, which is both Fide rated and ECF graded.
In round one I lost to a junior (1684 Fide/162 ECF) after turning down two draw offers, and in round two beat a player with neither a rating nor a grade.
The common theme of both of today's games, from my perspective, is that of playing too quickly and hugely overestimating my position for most of the time.
I keep telling myself to correct these bugbears, especially the former, which, in theory, should be easily corrected, but they persist.
The round-one debacle has cost me 16 rating points, knocking my "live" rating down to 1959.