Poor play with not so bad result

In this Weekend tournament my play was real disaster. Luckily for me this tournament was much weaker than previous one - I was ranked 1st. First three rounds were similar - weaker opposition, mutual mistakes and inaccuracies and my opponents making the last mistake.

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In 4th round I played with 2nd ranked player (who took the 1st place due to better Buchholz) and it was the first game in which I did not have bad position. I got large opening advantage and my opponent did not exploit my inaccuracies to equalize, made 27.Bd4?? and resigned prematurely when he could continue resistance (though in bad position). In a few words - also he was far from his best form.

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In 5th round the game was decided after 10 moves.

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The rest part of the game is not interesting - he played 30 extra moves.

My only loss was in 6th round - piece sacrifice 24...Nf3+? (prepared by 23...h5?!) was really bad idea and also after that my game was far from perfect.

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The last round seems to be my best game in this tournament. My opponent did not solve his opening problems and also later was clearly outplayed.

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In final standings I had the same score as my opponent from 4th round, but (as I already pointed out) my Buchholz was worse - so only 2nd place. But with such a play it`s not the worst result.