Illowa Fall Classic 2013

Just like every year, the Quad City Chess Club put on its fall tournament, the Fall Classic.  Since my chess skills have kind of been in decline recently, I didn't do particularly well this year.  I did, however, get an amazing (and undeserved draw) with a pretty good player.  The game went amazingly well for me until the endgame, where I got into a bad position.  I offered a draw in desperation; he accepted, not seeing that he could have just taken all my pawns with his king.  The next round, I was obliterated by my former teacher. He used a queen-pawn opening, knowing that I could easily defeat him had be played a king-pawn.  The third round, I played a lower-rated gentleman.  He did give me a very good game; it took quite a while to finish him off.  In the last round, I was again totally destroyed by a queen-pawn opening, this time played by a young boy with a rating of 1500+.  Overall, I scored 1.5, not bad for being in the open section.