Pensacola Knights Tournament

Saturday I played in the inaugural Pensacola Knights Scholastic and Open tournament in Pensacola Fl. This was only the second time that I have played in a chess tournament and played my 4-8^th USCF ranked games. There was a decent turnout, I think it was 17 or 18 with two people who withdrew after the first three rounds. There seems to be a pretty good size of consistent players in the Books-a-Millions clubs, that we as a geographical area could have 4 tournaments a year at a minimum. Anyway if anyone is going to be in the area in October I believe they are planning another tournament on the 14^th, I will post when I find out the exact date.

While I was happy with most of my play 3 out of 4 games I thought were well played up to a point but I managed to make a poor decision in each game and I finished 0/4 for the day. I did learn quite a bit from the losses though and I think I am better because of the experience.

This week I plan on analyzing each game so I should have four posts this week (lets hope).

In game one I was paired up against a much higher rated player, almost 600 points better, but I thought I handled myself pretty good until I made a huge blunder on move 29. I drew the white pieces in the game and was quick and excited to go with the English opening. I started with c4 with the idea of Nc3 g3 the Bg2 to get into a position in which I was familiar. However my opponent did not what to play the English and instead played d5 and c6 and we entered into a Slav type game. Talking with my opponent after the game and he mentioned that he is not comfortable with the English and was trying to confuse me because of my lack of playing experience. I thought he did a good job on both occasions and then managed to steer the game in the manner in which he wanted it to go. 

Anyway, I had a great time and I am looking forward to posting the games and playing more rated events in the months to come.

As always I welcome comments and line ideas that I may have missed in my analysis. 

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Casey Jones - Douglas

0-1, 2014.07.19.

[#] 1.c4 d5N my database has this as being a novelty. Which goes with the comments made to me by my opponet after the game. 2.e3 I was thrown off by 1...d5 and still wanted to get into some type of English setup with the white pieces so I went with e3 to protect c4 and it will still allow me to get the ♗ to g2 in the future. 2...Nf6 3.d4 In my study of lines in the English system I thought I remembered that d4 would be better than d3, plus I thought I could eventually go c5 and have a really good pawn chain. 3...c6 4.Nf3 Bf5 5.Nbd2 h6 6.Be2 Up to here I think these are all pretty standard moves I needed to get my king castled so had to move the light squared bishop out of the way. I am planning c5 to let him out but there isn⇗t much it is going to do on this diagonal. I was hoping that I can either sac it on a6 after moving the queen to b3. This seemed to me as a long shot as I would have needed my opponent to ignore the fact the queen is staring down the b7 pawn. 6...e6 7.c5N Be7 8.Nb3 Extra defender of c5 8...O-O 9.O-O Nbd7 10.Bd2 prepares for ♗a5 and i was thinking would take the kight on d7 off that square. I want my Knight on c5 10...Ne4 11.Bb4 Re8 12.Nbd2 Nxd2 13.Qxd2 Here I wasn't sure if I should have taken with the Q or with the Knight. I still want a knight on c5 but my opponent is not looking like he is willing to take the plunge and make an attack on that square. With this going through my mind I decided to take with the Queen. 13...Bf6 14.Bd3

[14.h3 Bg6 15.g4 and here i may of had his bishop trapped binding up his kingside. ]

14...Bxd3 15.Qxd3 e5 16.Qd2 e4 17.Ne1 Nf8 18.f4 If he take e.p. then it doesn't matter if I go f3 or f4 if not then I like the position that arises after g3 when he still has his dark squared bishop. 18...exf3 19.Rxf3 Ne6 Here I don⇗t see how I can stop him from getting the Knight on e4 20.Nc2 Ng5 21.Rf4 Ne4 22.Qe2 Qd7 23.Raf1 Re7 24.Be1 Rae8 25.Bh4 Bxh4 26.Rxh4 Re6 27.Rhf4 Here I wanted to figure out how I can get the pawn on f7 or trade off all the major pieces and I might be able to get a draw against this much higher opponent. 27...R8e7 28.Qh5 Rf6 This is the move that I didn⇗t see when I was looking at Qh5 29.Qf5??? -5.98

[29.Rxf6 Nxf6 -0.54 30.Qf3 Ne4 31.Qe2 Re8 32.Nb4 Nf6 33.Qf3 Ng4 34.Nc2 b6 35.h3 Nf6 (0:00:00) 41kN 28...Ref6 -0.48 Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64]

29...Rxf5 30.Rxf5 Re6 31.Rxf7 Qxf7 32.Rxf7 Kxf7 33.b4 a6 34.a3 Rf6 35.Ne1 Nd2 36.h3 Rf1 37.Kh2 Rxe1 0-1 White resigned [0-1]

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