BU Open 2006

First, the games:
http://www.njord.org/~steve/mychess/bu2006.htm

Second, a warning:
Only game 2 is really worth looking at.

I played in the U1600 section, which is really where I belong at this point, but since it was the bottom section for the tournament there were a ton of small children who were at their first tournaments. I played first timers in rounds 1 and 3 and destroyed them. I didn’t really learn much from these games and both ended with my having used between 5 and 10 minutes of clock time.

In round 4 I took a bye as my wife and I had a dinner party to attend, but in round 2 I played Nicholas Lesieur. Nicholas is rated 1440 or so. I didn’t play badly, but I didn’t play interestingly either. Ultimately I lost a piece to a pin I didn’t see coming, but I think I was strategically worse for most of the game. This was my first use of the Scandinavian in a serious game. I want to learn it because I’m tired of trying to be ready for all the different white tries after 1 … e5. I really want to be driving the direction of the game, and e5 doesn’t let me do that. I also think that the Nf6 Scandinavian is likely to be something that my opponents aren’t particularly ready to face. Clearly, though, I need to spend more time figuring out how to see tactics coming my direction than I need to spend booking up on e4 d5.

Anyone have a clue on what the performance rating is for 2/3 vs unr-unr-1440? [Edit: it turns out to be something like 1000, and I actually lost ground with my +1 score here!]