Basically I'll be posting the notation for my games from my most recent tournament over the course of the next few days with annotations. If anyone wants to post some of their games, feel free to do so, and I will gladly look into them.
This tournament (Continental Class Championships in Arlington, Virgina) was pretty awesome for me for a variety of reasons.
1) It was my first
9-round long time control (2hours/G40) 5 day tournament. I've played 5-6-7 round ones with the same time control. but 9 feels amazing.
2) I did well enough to earn a cash prize with a score of 5.5/9
3) I boosted my rating by around 50 points, to earn the right to be called an "expert"
4) I met some of my friends in the chess circuit and hung out and got to know a goodly amount of people (from all walks of life as usual).
Anyway I'll start off by posting my only loss for the tournament. I really liked this game because it involved double piece sacs (temporary but still!). Even though it was stressful as hell to play this game, AND I got into massive time pressure from move 20 or so, I had a lot of fun.
A chess board + pieces + an
understanding of notation is suggested, and practically required unless you are comfortable with visualizing in your head... which isn't the easiest thing to do. Here's the game!
Game 1:
(white) vs. ActionDan(black) (Honestly it's pretty easy to figure out the names, but w/e)
1.e4 c6 (I play the Caro-Kann, pronounced as if William Shatner were about to say Carolina but then stopped short and as if in apparent agony, bellowed "KHAN, KHAN, KHAN!!")
2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 h5 (preventing white from playing h5)
9.Bb5+ Nd7 10.Bg5 (first dilemma, move Queen or develop a bishop to e7? I moved the Queen saving moving the Bishop to b4)
10...Qc7 11.Qe2 (sac on d5 threatened. From here I had to worry about Nxd5 and Nxe6 as potential sacs)
11... Bb4 12. Rh3 hxg4 13. Re3 a6 14. Qxg4 (Serious shit is going down. Not taking the Bishop leads to a bad/possibly losing postion)
14...axb5 15. Nxe6 Qa5 16. Nxg7+ Kf8 17. Ne6+ fxe6 (at this point, two pieces have been saced, but I can't hold both of them!)
18.Qxe6 Be4 19.Qxd7 Rh7 20.Qg4 Qc7 (possibly a mistake, Re8 might have been better)
21.O-O-O Bxc3 22. Rxc3 Qxe5 23. f3 Bf5 24. Qb4+ Ne7 25. Qxb5 Rxa2 26.Kb1 Ra6 27.Qxb7 Qe2 28.Rg1 d4 29.Rc5 Be6 (I had about ~2 min left while my opponent had around 50. I thought I was holding up alright but he spent about 40 mins calculating and then played the unexpected)
30.Bxe7+ Rxe7 31. Rc8+ Bxc8 32. Qxc8+ (here I made a losing move with 1 min on my clock. Kf7 was forced, but takes a while longer to lose, and maybe I can get out of the incoming checks. But after...)
32... Re8 33.Qf5+ Ke7 34.Rg7+ Kd6 35. Rd7+ I resigned in view of 35... Kc6 36. Qd5+ Kb6 37. Rb7#
Welp. I'll post more games later, but tell me if you like what you see. I guarentee that all my games are good quality! I am an expert after all :V
