Well, the last 3 games of my first Nationals are now available for perusal on cross-tables.  I decided I had had enough of drawing badly, and I was going to go 3-0 on the last day, and sure enough I accomplished that, salvaging my record and finishing in 13th place.  Not where I was hoping to be after the end of Day 3, but all in all it was a ( Read more... )

Day 4 annotated games are now up on cross-tables, http://www.cross-tables.com/anno.php?p=20072

Well, it sucked going through those games again.  During the 7 game losing streak, I had a shot to win 3 of them.  The Bowman game, I missed an opening bingo, a 4v7 that's Collins only.  That's probably the difference there.  Theolaughgame, I made a ( Read more... )

Day 3 games are now up on cross-tables.com.  Kind of wish I had kept up with this enough so I could release Day 4 on Halloween, since that was the real horror show, but c'est la vie.  Besides the two Polatnick games, which were just straight baggings that I couldn't do much about, the rest of them were pretty taut affairs that are worth looking ( Read more... )

My games from Day 2 of NSC 2012 are up on cross-tables, you can find them here: http://www.cross-tables.com/anno.php?p=20072, along with all of my other games that are tagged.  Played pretty well up until the last game, where I putzed around too long in the beginning, then screwed up my tracking, causing me to open up a lane that he bingoed down.  ( Read more... )

As promised, I've uploaded the first day of games from Nationals, 2 months late.  I got to play at Table 1 in the afternoon, and managed 2nd place at the conclusion of the day.  Not bad at all, considering the adventures of just getting to the venue and condo the night before meant I didn't fall asleep until 1:30 AM, with a wake-up call at 6:45 AM ( Read more... )

Just in time for a return engagement this weekend, I've posted some annotated games on x-tables from Charlotte EC Collins.   They're 3 months late, but at least they're available for perusal.  The ones with Bob are fun shootouts, while the others are on the tenser side with interesting mid- and late-game positions.  They're on the main annotated ( Read more... )

Here are a couple of games i annotated from the EC EB, on my way to an 8-0 finish and a sparkling new TWL peak of 1780.  One's a nailbiter, and one's a rout with some fun plays.

Round 4 vs. Andy Hoang, former NSSC champion: http://cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=10674

Round 5 vs. Ian Weinstein, #1 seed of the tourney: http://cross-tables.com/ ( Read more... )

Round 10 vs. Kevin Gauthier: http://cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=10362

Round 19 vs. Erickson Smith: http://cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=10363

Game 4 vs. wallydraigle : www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php

Game 5 vs. Ian Weinstein: www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php

Comments are welcome.  Also if anybody wants more games from the tourney I'll consider posting them, but these were what I thought were the two most interesting games I had.  Cheers!