Monday, January 3, 2011

1/1/2011 Herb Healy Tournament


Here I am wearing the blue hat sitting next to the scholar and gentleman :George the Blunderprone. (Please note: Despite the photographic evidence above, I'm not asleep ?!)

This is my third New Years day tournament at the BCC and was my favorite. All games were 1 e4 8),openings I was comfortable with and hard fought .
I played
1) a King's Gambit as White ( lost)
2) a Reti Gambit as White against the French (won)
3) a Scotch Gambit as Black (lost)
4) a 2 Knights as Black (lost) (almost a Traxler but went 0-0 0-0)

All interesting games and I didn't hang any pieces. I consider this a major accomplishment given my two year hiatus.

Games 3 & 4 I was hanging on for my life through most of it.

Game 3 I accidently plopped down my bishop on an unintended square (an across the board mouse slip)
Game 4 I believe I should of kicked the G5 Knight by h6 but never played it.

I'm rated at the time I let my USCF lapse under 11oo ..... So I was happy with my play against the 4 players all who were over 1600. (two of them over 1800)

A nice informal get together with enjoyable people.

3 comments:

  1. It was good to see you too. Will we cross paths in Portsmouth this month?

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  2. We are in the thick of the high school swim season so the earliest I will play again is some point in the Spring. Besides I need to study/train more.

    Good Luck in Portsmouth!

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  3. I faced the schallop . I might want to try this as black. Some ideas found here.

    Note to self 8)
    http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1007537

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