Submitted by on Sat Sep 5, 2009 3:45pm.
In the Southern Open, which I played on August 1-2, I did myself the great disservice of losing for the SECOND time to Gregory Kimmel on the black side of the Scotch opening. After examining many of the Scotch lines in detail, it appears black ... Read more »
Submitted by on Tue Aug 4, 2009 1:24am.
After taking a little time off in my quest for 2200, I'm now ready to get active again. Accordingly, my first tournament "back" after a six-month layoff was the 2009 Southern Open in Kissimmee, FL (7/31/09-8/2/09). Thanks to the TDs for an exc... Read more »
Submitted by on Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:31am.
This past weekend I had the good fortune to play in the first club championship of the Tampa Chess Club. I am not a good fast time-control player, so I had serious reservations given the G/1 hr time control. Coupled with the fact I would be ne... Read more »
Submitted by on Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:25am.
Who says you can never go home again? This past weekend, I took the opportunity to play in the 2008 Oscar Shapiro DC Open in Washington, DC. I grew up there, and through some very hard times indeed. I was only 12 in 1968 when riots erupted f... Read more »
Submitted by on Tue Sep 2, 2008 12:11pm.
Having continued to overhaul my opening repertoire, tweaking even up to the last minute, I expected my results at the 2008 FL State Championship to be underwhelming. What I didn't expect after the first two rounds is a perfor... Read more »
Submitted by on Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:40pm.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to play in the Southern Open in Altamonte Springs, FL (just NE of Orlando). While this "learning experience" didn't match my Boca Raton experience, it did come with some genuine lessons that made it w... Read more »
Submitted by on Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:13am.
Just as I'm enjoying building my relationship with the Pseudo King's Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. d3 d6 6. f4!) -- despite results of its recent rollout -- I purchase a copy of the new "Dangerous Weapons 1.e4 e5" book b... Read more »
Submitted by on Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:07pm.
A "learning experience". That's my code language for an OTB tournament in which I sucked. This past weekend, at the Summer Solstice Open in Boca Raton, I had a wonderful learning experience. What did I learn? Well, firstl... Read more »
Submitted by on Fri Jul 4, 2008 4:26pm.
LOL, OK maybe that doesn't deserve an exclam by anyone else's measure, but if you knew how much I've been wrestling with a putting together a workable repertoire for my push to NM (and then to FM) you'd sympathize. One of the reaso... Read more »
Submitted by on Tue Jul 1, 2008 1:16pm.
WIth only one weekend between now and the next tournament, my white repertoire is still full of holes. On the Sicilian front, I thought I was happy with 1.e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. d3 d5 4. e5 and on 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. d3 and on 3...... Read more »