Changing my attitude

 While adopting a new strategy, I realized I must change my attitude towards the game. Usually my approach is a bit overambitious. When I accepted the draw in the previous post, we were only at move 27. But I already had somewhat overextended myself mentally.

That is no problem when you end before move 35, but I realize that grinding out an endgame until move 80 will become problematic in this way. Hence I must play simpler chess.

The game of the previous post was a typical "Bent Larsen moment". By looking overambitious for tactics, I missed the simple positional approach. I looked in the wrong direction. I drained my energy by looking for tactics that weren't there.

I adopted the same opening with white that I play with black lately. These types of positions have a tendency to lead to more or less beneficial endgames (which I screw up anyway), so I must learn to manage my mental energy. 

The pawns will play a bigger role in my positional approach. So I skimmed through my Chessable courses and found one that I acquired long ago, but had never finished. micro-plans I - mastering weak pawns

This is exactly the type of course that I need right now. The course is about inducing and hitting weak pawns. Short time positional goals that I can play with reasonable speed and that save energy once I manage to absorb the patterns.

My endgames are on the backburner, but hey, screwing up a won endgame is a luxury problem!