Reluctant to regicide

Today I played my fourth blindfold game, this time against a 1335, and managed my second win. It should have been a loss however because I managed to hang my queen rather obviously - luckily for me my opponents rook was reluctant to commit regicide. Or rather my opponent made his moves too quickly (spending an average of 15 seconds per move), or trusted my rating over his - my rating still being relatively inflated from my semi-blindfold games - and so didn't look carefully.

Aside from that single stupid blunder (you'd have thought that I'd have learned from Carlsen that capturing the e pawn with your queen in the middlegame is a bad idea...) my play wasn't too bad. However there were certainly a lot of missed opportunities and I generally avoided even favourable complications in favour of a very solid position. See game viewer for moves and annotation.

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It was only in analysis that I saw how much I had missed on the queenside. Although I 'kept track' of everything most of the time, all of my moves this game were pretty pedestrian. How long before I start taking advantage of interesting tactical opportunities in my blindfold games? Perhaps that is what took ICC 'Jedi Master' a year to get to (see earlier post). Blindfold may be teaching me visualisation which will help a lot with calculation, but I haven't managed to play out any interesting calculations during my blindfold games yet... just remembering where everything is and then playing prosaically seems the best I can manage right now.