UPDATE: 20/4/2015
Day 65
Did some blitz and tactics. Had a brief look at main lines in the close system of Symmetrical English. Definitely didn't get too much work done, but most of it due spending 4+ hrs only to bust in the money bubble with KK v AQ (busted the Sunday Storm earlier in the day 17 minutes in with KK v AA).
I'm still optimistic I can put in alot of work in the next two months before the tournaments...
Although definitely haven't put in as much effort as I had hoped, I'm still showing signs of improvement.
My tactics improved and I'm approaching 2000+ quite quickly (and tactics is not my strong point)
Also managed to outplay a NM/CM in two games, blundered the first one in an endgame when i was a piece up, then won the second one which was abit of an interesting game.
This is a fairly bizarre game, and the NM/CM played it poorly, and I got alot of counterplay despite dropping a rook
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 d6 6.O-O h5 interesting plan, I've seen it a couple of times before.
7.Rb1 a5 8.a3 h4 9.b4 axb4 10.axb4 g5 11.b5 Nd4 12.Nxd4 exd4 13.Nd5 Bg4 14.h3 Bf5 15.g4? lol oops, ironically, White still have chances, despite down a whole rook, his position is quite good quality wise
15. ... Bxb1 16.d3 Nh6 17.f4 gxf4 18.Bxf4 Ba2 19.Qd2 surprisingly, in just a few moves, the position was already even, despite White being down a rook! Black's pieces are frozen and can't move. The bishop is stuck in enemy lines doing nothing. Nxg4! saccing the knight to generate counterplay was probably Black's best options. White now continue to build pressure on the long diagonal, and try to take down the trapped bishop. Black's king is unsafe and stuck in the centre, as castling drop the knight and the kingside is in exposed
19. ... c6 (Diagram) 20.bxc6 bxc6 21.Nb4 Qa5 22.Bxc6+ Ke7 23.Ra1 Rab8? blunder, but Black was already losing (+6.90)
24.Nd5+ 1-0