Round 2 of the October Thursday Swiss tournament came and went last night. I went home early again, but this time it was me who delivered the smashing. Actually, looking at the game again, and seeing that I made at least one move that I should have been punished for, it doesn’t look like a smashing. Sadly, I don’t think this game taught me much more than the smashing I received last week. I felt comfortable for the entire game and definitely felt like I had the initiative for most of it.
You can see this game and my first round game at http://www.njord.org/~steve/mychess/otns.htm
I’m certainly happy to be on the winning side again, and it was nice to play a game where the computer says I was better from wire to wire.
One moment of hesitation: I’ve been working from Emms’ “Attack with 1 e4″ book, and I know that after 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 he suggests 4. Qg4 with some trappy, crazy looking stuff coming after that, but I haven’t learned it yet and chickened out and went for the much safer looking 4. d3. Blue Devil (if you’re reading this) I know you play the BO…have you ventured into the 4. Qg4 lines at all?
In other news, I’ve recently crested 800 tries at CTS. My accuracy continues to plummet (around 78.8% now) and my rating continues to hover. I’m just not very fast when it comes to digesting positions, and most of the 1450+ problems take me forever to solve, when I manage to solve them. Also annoying are the problems that, even after I look at the solution, don’t seem to result in any tactical gain. Hmm.
Finally, I’m very much looking forward to the two larger tournaments I’m going to be playing in the next couple of weeks. I think I’m quite a bit better than my rating at the moment and hope to do very well in the U1300 section at the Sudbury River Fall Classic (formerly the Fall NorthEast Chess Getaway) next weekend, and perhaps slightly less well in the U1600 section at the BU Open in 4 weeks.
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