01 Nov '18 20:14>
Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂
I had continued success last weekend over-the-board, this time in Scarborough.
I won 5 games out of 5, picking up a cheque for £500
however people are accusing me of being a shark...
Whilst my grade is still low, I am making the most of it by entering the lower sections of these tournaments.
Things will become more difficult in January after my grade goes up.
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I will share three of the games in full, rounds 3, 4 and 5.
Rounds 1 and 2 were nervy blunder fests, both of which I was lucky to win.
From Game 1, after Rf7+ Black (me) has just played Re7
My opponent had to play Rxe7+, anything else lost the Knight...
...he played Ra1-f1, met by Rxg7+ 0-1
Game 2, I had missed tactic after tactic, each one dropping a pawn.
Against a better opponent I may have resigned, but anything can happen at this level.
Here I am White, currently 2 pawns down and just played Nd1-f2
I have a discovered attack on the Bishop.
Here, Bc3 or even Ra8 are both fine and Black should win.
Instead, he played f5... dropping the Bishop on a1.
More mistakes followed and the central pawns were soon taken, 1-0.
Round 3 to follow.
I had continued success last weekend over-the-board, this time in Scarborough.
I won 5 games out of 5, picking up a cheque for £500
however people are accusing me of being a shark...
Whilst my grade is still low, I am making the most of it by entering the lower sections of these tournaments.
Things will become more difficult in January after my grade goes up.
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I will share three of the games in full, rounds 3, 4 and 5.
Rounds 1 and 2 were nervy blunder fests, both of which I was lucky to win.
From Game 1, after Rf7+ Black (me) has just played Re7
My opponent had to play Rxe7+, anything else lost the Knight...
...he played Ra1-f1, met by Rxg7+ 0-1
Game 2, I had missed tactic after tactic, each one dropping a pawn.
Against a better opponent I may have resigned, but anything can happen at this level.
Here I am White, currently 2 pawns down and just played Nd1-f2
I have a discovered attack on the Bishop.
Here, Bc3 or even Ra8 are both fine and Black should win.
Instead, he played f5... dropping the Bishop on a1.
More mistakes followed and the central pawns were soon taken, 1-0.
Round 3 to follow.