Bad tournament result

From 2 to 9 august 2008 i played in the Hoge Zeeland international tournament, Vlissingen, The Netherlands. It wasn’t my tournament. I played badly and only managed to score 4.0 points out of 9 games. A normal score would be atleast 5.0 points.

My scoresheet:

Round	Rating opp.	Nationality opp.	My colour	Result	Overall result
1	1435 N	The Netherlands	White	1	1.0
2	2202 F	The Netherlands	White	Draw	1.5
3	2202 F	Belgium	Black	0	1.5
4	1659 N	The Netherlands	Black	0	1.5
5	1777 N	Belgium	White	0	1.5
6	1661 N	The Netherlands	Black	Draw	2.0
7	1628 N	The Netherlands	White	1	3.0
8	1725 N	The Netherlands	Black	1	4.0
9	1734 N	The Netherlands	White	0	4.0

 Rating opp.: N = national rating; F=Fide rating

The reason for my bad result i can find in not having played for three months, playing to quick, missing threats, miscalculation and playing the second move instead of the first move of my calculations.

To end i will give you an example of moving to quickly.

After 15. … f6

Here i played immediatly 16. Qh5+ but the better move is offcourse 16. Ba5+ which wins the game much easier. Namely 16. Ba5+ Nxa5 (16. … Nd7 17. Bxd7+ Qxd7 18. Nxd7 with a Q to B advantage for white) 17. Qxa5+ Bc6 18. Qxc6+ Qd7 19. Qxd7# So next time i better go sit on my hands before i move, or find a good thoughtprocess.

 

 

WHO AM I

I am a belgian chess player who is already 16 years addicted to the game of chess. I never really spend time on a study of this marvelous game. But slowly the coin fell and i couldn’t get around the fact that if i want to achieve my goal of getting over 2000 rating (national and Fide elo) i need to take chess more seriously.

My current ratings:

Belgian national rating: 1916 (higest ever: 1969); Fide rating: 1977 ; Antwerp commercial chess rating: 2033

(The Antwerp commercial chess federation is standing on it’s own and has it’s own competition. Only firms and compagnies that are located in Antwerp may play in this competition. I am playing second board for General Motors in the first division.)

My chess study:

I will focus mostly on tactics. For this i will use the TASC CD. Also i will be using the DVD Total Chess Training which include the programs Strategy 2.0, CT-Art 3.0, Endgame Studies 2.0, Encyclopedia of Middlegame and Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders.

I also got myself a chesscoach. You may know him since he also blogs under the name Phaedrus ( http://chesstrainerphaedrus.blogspot.com/ ). Who, if needed, will give me other chess work.

Can you help me?

I am a bit in the dark to what to put on this blog and how i should, can, do it. So if you have any hints, wonderfull ideas, then don’t hesitate to post them in a comment.