Here are the results.
This was a great, well directed tournament and I recommend it highly. One of the highlights was the “chess social” that was held at the Knudson residence. Where else would mere patzers like us get to hang out with GMs and IMs while partaking in a sumptuous spread?
I got into time trouble in all my games, but managed 3.5/4. (I took a bye in the first round to finish 4/5). The main reason I am getting into time trouble is that I am trying to be careful in order to minimize errors, but this is counter productive since the lack of time introduces errors later in the game.
This is the game 4 victory over the #2 seed.
CAMILLA BAGINSKAITE (Left)
ALEX YERMOLINSKY (Right)
chess social
Nicely done... 2 good results in a row. Man, I miss the SD tournaments. We should go together again some time.
ReplyDeleteYou are about 1,628 miles away!
ReplyDeleteInteresting game - cool tactics. (Did you see all the way to your win of 2B for the R?) Later in the game, I wonder whether there was a way to keep the g file closed for White's king safety.
ReplyDeleteWhite thought he was winning a pawn by taking Nxc3. I did not even consider Nxc3.
ReplyDeleteAfter he played Nxc3 I started calculating and saw the move Ba3 which gets me the 2 Bishops.
Although he had P+P+R for my 2 Bishops, the 2 bishops were monsters.
I missed 24.d5 too which would have won much faster.