Winning the session

In modern day cricket "winning the session" has emerged as an important feature of the game. What this means (for non cricket fans) is that in each 2 hour session, you aim to do better than your opponent (either by taking wickets or scoring more runs than they would like). Chess often has a similar concept, in that you need to win the opening, the middlegame, and the ending.
Of course cricket isn't entirely like chess, in that one mistake normally doesn't lose you the game (unless you get caught ball tampering). But I have seen enough games where a player might be better at one stage, then end up worse going into an ending, before turning the tables one more time, to think it can be a fair comparison.
An example of this is the following game from the current ANU Summer Swiss, being held at the ANU Chess Club. After one mistake in the opening Doug McClure found himself in a bad way going into the middlegame. But having lost the opening session, he fought back in the middle session to reach a probably equal position. But in final stage of the game, when running short of time, he missed a couple of key moves, and Harry Press was able to find the path to victory.


Press,Harry - McClure,Doug [D43]
2014 ANU Summer Swiss Canberra, 05.03.2014

1. Nf3 e6 2. c4 d5 3. d4 c6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. e4 dxe4 8. Nxe4 Bb4+ 9. Nc3 c5 10. a3 Ba5 11. Be2 Nc6 12. O-O O-O 13. Ne4 Qe7 14. Nxc5 Bc7 15. b4 b6 16. Nb3 Rd8 17. b5 Nb8 18. Qc2 Bb7 19. a4 Nd7 20. a5 Rac8 21. axb6 axb6 22. Ra7 Ba8 23. Rfa1 Qf6 24. c5 Bd5 25. c6 Nf8 26. Rb7 Bxf3 27. Bxf3 Qf4 28. Qe4 Qxh2+ 29. Kf1 Rd5 30. Qd3 Rdd8 31. g3 e5 32. Bg4 Ne6 33. Bxe6 fxe6 34. Raa7 Rf8 35. Qe3 Rf7 36. dxe5 Rcf8 37. f4 Rd8 38. Nd4 Qh1+ 39. Ke2 Qg2+ 40. Kd3 Qf1+ 41. Kc3 Bxe5 42. fxe5 Rxd4 43. Kxd4 Qd1+ 44. Kc4 Qc2+ 45. Kb4 Qb2+ 46. Kc4 Qc2+ 47. Qc3 Qe4+ 48. Kb3 Qb1+ 49. Ka3 Rf2 50. Rxg7+ Kf8 51. Qb4+ Qxb4+ 52. Kxb4 1-0