This game shows once more that 1.) it is important to study endgames and 2.) that one should base the evaluation of a position not on the previous position but on the current one! Here I am playing a 30 10 game at the Internet Chess Club (ICC) against uberman, who is moving like in a blitz game - good for me because he would have probably crushed me of he would have taken some time to think. I left some ICC timestamps showing the time left on the clock in the comments. At the end, I had only a few minutes left, while my opponent had more time on the clock than at the start of the game thanks to the 10 second increment.

Anyway, here is the game with a blocked center and me giving away a won endgame: I was sure that the game is drawn at move 53 and offered a draw. Uberman declined but we agreed to a draw later, after he made a blunder... If I would have spend some time looking at the board instead of accepting the draw right away based on my previous evaluation, I may have been able to win the game...

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