Scored 7/9 to come =1st in a 20+10 rapid tournament. Technically it’s 7/8 because they told me I have a half point bye for the first round but it changed into a round robin so I got forfeited the first round (kinda annoyed by this).
Only game I lost was to an unrated (!!) even though I wiped everyone else.
I allowed black a position like this which was really inexcusable. Basically black gets a very free attack here and white is more or less losing.
I rushed the opening moves and move ordered into a bad version of the English vs the f5 systems where the Bc5 is basically permanently untouchable on the a7-g1 diagonal and assists the kingside attack with long term pressure.
I got pretty dejected when I got a bad position from the opening and start to rush the moves (trying to put time pressure on him) and missing obvious attacking ideas from the other side, should’ve kept a better composure and keep fighting.
I got pretty tilted by this game and in our national federation tournaments you can still potentially lose national elo to an unrated player depending on their performance in the tournament. I almost never get bad positions from white anymore so it’s really annoying to lose like this.
I was steaming from the lost, so on the next round (the last round) I played an unsound Caro Kann pretty quickly and got a massive attacking position, which I converted.
A lot of my repertoire still have holes. My improvement has always been directly correlated to improving my repertoire and keeping sharp tactically. I still have some variations to solve or find a good line before I go to play tournaments overseas.
Last edited by NL Loki; 02-16-2022 at 10:30 AM.