Tragedy Strikes!

Well, my weekly game with OJ could have gone better. Things were going okay- I was playing the black side of the modern defense to the King's Gambit accepted. I was under a bit of pressure, but holding. Then I chose my next move, N8d7. The 8 was necessary when I wrote the move down because there were knights on both b6 and b8. So I wrote down N8d7 on my scoresheet, carefully checked all my opponent's reasonable replies, and seeing nothing threatening I made my move and pressed the clock. Then after a few seconds I realized with horror that I actually made the move N6d7, not N8d7 as I intended. Suddenly the position went from probably +/= to +-. About two moves later, my thought-process in tatters, I dropped my queen, and promptly resigned. The really frustrating thing was in the post-mortem it looked like a few moves later I would have won a central pawn and gained a strong position had I played the correct knight move. Sigh...

On a positive note I was doing a good job of considering my opponent's replies up until I moved the wrong knight. Unfortunately my friend is getting ready to travel for a few months, so I won't have a weekly game for a while. After today's loss, my record is against OJ is +9 -11 =3, so -2 overall. Not bad considering I used to get my clock cleaned regularly, so I've made up quite a bit of ground.

BTW I have now finished levels 10 and 20 on the second circle, so here's the stats so far:

        Circle 1 %  Circle 2 %
        ----------  ----------
Level 10     96%          99%
Level 20     91%          93%
Level 30     74%
Level 40     69%
Level 50     67%
Level 60     55%
Level 70     60%
Level 80     57%
Level 90     55%

So, a modest improvement in % overall, all while doing twice as many problems per day than in the first circle. I still missed a bunch of problems on level 20, but hopefully I'll do better on circle 3. In looking at my circle 1 percentages, it is interesting to note that my second-worst score in the first circle was on level 60. Weird.