16 Apr '18 19:53>1 edit
Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂
So I finally played in a live tournament, after a few years of wanting to do so
but not being able to due to work commitments and probably me just being chicken.
I'll show each game in separate posts, with brief analysis, starting with the first game below.
There are 5 games in total... Each game was graded so hopefully I'll have a grading soon!
The time controls were 1 hr 30 mins each plus a 30 second move increment.
In each of these games I played faster than my experienced opponents,
regularly finishing the game with still 50+ minutes on my clock... this is not a good thing.
Game 1 - Nigel Morris vs Zak Tomlinson (me!)
This was a fairly even game with not much happening by way of threats,
then I saw a tactic in the below position, Black to play:
See the game below for "What happened next".
Nigel was graded ECF 123 (roughly 1620 ELO)
So I finally played in a live tournament, after a few years of wanting to do so
but not being able to due to work commitments and probably me just being chicken.
I'll show each game in separate posts, with brief analysis, starting with the first game below.
There are 5 games in total... Each game was graded so hopefully I'll have a grading soon!
The time controls were 1 hr 30 mins each plus a 30 second move increment.
In each of these games I played faster than my experienced opponents,
regularly finishing the game with still 50+ minutes on my clock... this is not a good thing.
Game 1 - Nigel Morris vs Zak Tomlinson (me!)
This was a fairly even game with not much happening by way of threats,
then I saw a tactic in the below position, Black to play:
See the game below for "What happened next".
Nigel was graded ECF 123 (roughly 1620 ELO)