Tuesday, October 8, 2013

G/20 Quads

This week at the local chess club, the members were split into groups of four to play game-in-20 minutes quads.  There was surprisingly no delay or increment, so time started going down immediately.  Since there were four people in each quad, each person played three others.  The first of my three games, I played my former chess teacher and lost.  I was up at first, but moved too quickly and got caught by a kingside attack. In the next game, I did well against someone who is pretty good.  He made a terrible mistake near the endgame, dropping his queen and resigning.  The last game was considerably more interesting.  My opponent played a Sicilian defense, which messed me up because I don't know it very well.  I made a few small errors that led to my being down a bishop in the endgame.  However, he had extremely little time.  When he promoted a pawn, he expected me to place it on the board for him, but I (as the rules say to do) pressed my clock and told him to place it.  By that time, only three seconds were left on his clock.  I won on time because I had one pawn left.  Two out of three is OK, I guess...

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