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Four of six rounds have been played in this year's Ontario Open here in Ottawa. As one of the bottom seeds of the "Master's" section, I'm doing quite well with 2.5/4. I have to admit that both my wins and my draw were fairly lucky encounters f... | Read More
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We had a pretty cool discussion at chess club tonight about chess books. A rapidly improving young player (very strong tactician, the rest of his game will catch up eventually if he's anything like I was...) was asking about which chess books ar... | Read More
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My round 1 game as black against Richard Cote. He played a great game and I was left with very few middlegame prospects. After forcing a dubious exchange (24. Bc4), I was able to find an advanced outpost for my knight and win the R+N vs. R+B e... | Read More
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A neat little game I played today. Very non-theoretical, but interesting...
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I found this pretty amusing. The same day I published the original "Just Keep Moving" blog, another player goes into the same variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined against me in another 15 minute game. He played a little bit better, but bla... | Read More
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I've had the fortunate experience of gaining 80ish rating points in my last 2 or 3 tournaments. This jump was caused largely by an U2200 tournament win, where I went 4.5/5. With the exception of my round 2 game, which was more or less a theore... | Read More
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Kind of a neat game. I've always found the French in general, but especially the Winawer, to be extremely optimistic. Black forgoes "normal" considerations (space, development, bad bishop, etc.) and hopes to play for a win in spite of this. ... | Read More
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Round 1 - Xu - Nicholson
Round 2 - Nicholson - Li
Round 3 - Nasir - Nicholson
Round 4 - Nicholson - Yu
Round 5 - Deline - Nicholson
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A tough game against a very low rated opponent who had a great tournament. His frustratingly unambitious play made it difficult to generate any winning chances, however I managed to get a practical endgame edge, which turned into a blunder of ma... | Read More
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