BAT
Just posted all of my games from BAT - looks like I didn't make too many big mistakes, but I blew two games against Ian and Joel Sherman and my shenanigans against Cesar could easily have cost me a third.
In a lot of these games I made little mistakes early that ended up having a really significant impact on the course of the game. Sometimes I hear people argue that small errors at the beginning of the game don't matter as much as saving time for the endgame, but against great players you really have to choose carefully early to make sure that you have all of the options you want later (and prevent them from doing what they want to do as well).
Here's my game with Rafi where I made some inaccurate choices in the first few moves:
Rafi
Here's a game with Scott Appel that was immensely frustrating at the time but interesting in retrospect:
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The most fun game of the tournament was probably this one with Joel Sherman until I blew it at the end
here
This is the relatively easy pre-endgame sequence against Ian that I blew in the opening round of the tournament:
here
Here are a few positions where I'm still not sure what I should've done:
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here
In a lot of these games I made little mistakes early that ended up having a really significant impact on the course of the game. Sometimes I hear people argue that small errors at the beginning of the game don't matter as much as saving time for the endgame, but against great players you really have to choose carefully early to make sure that you have all of the options you want later (and prevent them from doing what they want to do as well).
Here's my game with Rafi where I made some inaccurate choices in the first few moves:
Rafi
Here's a game with Scott Appel that was immensely frustrating at the time but interesting in retrospect:
here
The most fun game of the tournament was probably this one with Joel Sherman until I blew it at the end
here
This is the relatively easy pre-endgame sequence against Ian that I blew in the opening round of the tournament:
here
Here are a few positions where I'm still not sure what I should've done:
here
here