After going 4-0 and winning the Under 1700 section in January, I decided to move up into the Under 2000 section for February. This isn’t so absurd, as my rating after the January tournament went up to 1601, but due to the way the USCF ratings system works the ratings lag by about 2 weeks, so my official printed rating for February was 1491. The only real affect that this has is that if you are at the bottom of the group you are more likely to be forced to take a bye if there are an odd number of players, and indeed, in round 2 I was paired out of my section (receiving a full point bye) and had a side game (still rated but doesn’t contribute to tournament standings) against George Callahan. I’ll post that game later.
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