Southern Open (FL, USA) game one

Hi folks,

A King's Indian Attack.

This is my game one win, which was my only win! I won the first, was winning but threw away the second, and never recovered mentally, and threw away rds 3 and 4. I withdrew before round 5 and went home to hang out with the kids.

I will enter game 2 on another thread. I lost that one, but I think it is probably the more interesting of the two decent games I had.

In this game, I think my opponent was surprised by 23. Re5, by 25. a5, and by 46. b3, all of which are related in style somewhat.

Edit: I forgot to add- the time control for the first two rounds was G/75, and we made the endgame moves relatively quickly.

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
[b] I won the first, was winning but threw away the second, and never recovered mentally, and threw away rds 3 and 4. I withdrew before round 5 and went home to hang out with the kids.

Originally posted by Thabtos
That's exactly what happened to me in my first OTB tournament. I took the negativity from my losses into the next game and it hurt me.

My second tournament, I just decided to have fun to avoid the situation, but in that case I don't think I was serious enough to play my best.


Maybe I'll find a happy medium for my third one.

I really like the game, it reminds me of my own style of play with the white pieces! well done.

Great game, nice win.

Nice game, although e6 strikes me as a bit premature, I would play Rc1 (the a-pawn for the c-pawn is a bad trade for him) and bring my king to the other side of the doubled pawns first. But probably you had a won game at that point anyway.