Road to the Grandmaster title - Final Result and puzzles from the Grandmaster Tournament
I got the 8th place in the Grandmaster Tournament and lost 1.2 rating points.
I started well the tournament with 2 wins out of 3 games and then had only 1 victory out of 6 games and in every game I lost in the last 6 games I made a big blunder.
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
| Rk. | SNo | Name | sex | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | n | w-we | K | rtg+/- | ||
| 1 | 1 | GM | Plat Vojtech | CZE | 2553 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 24,75 | 9 | 0,26 | 10 | 2,6 | ||
| 2 | 4 | GM | Nagy Gabor | HUN | 2511 | 6,0 | 1,0 | 25,50 | 9 | 0,27 | 10 | 2,7 | ||
| 3 | 10 | IM | Mishra Abhimanyu | USA | 2408 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 24,00 | 9 | 1,64 | 10 | 16,4 | ||
| 4 | 5 | IM | Petenyi Tamas | SVK | 2464 | 5,5 | 1,0 | 22,25 | 9 | 0,38 | 10 | 3,8 | ||
| 5 | 6 | IM | Livaic Leon | CRO | 2507 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 20,00 | 9 | -0,19 | 10 | -1,9 | ||
| 6 | 7 | GM | Czebe Attila | HUN | 2385 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 19,00 | 9 | 0,44 | 10 | 4,4 | ||
| 7 | 8 | Souhardo Basak | IND | 2349 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 14,25 | 9 | -0,10 | 20 | -2,0 | |||
| 8 | 9 | IM | Turzo Attila | HUN | 2312 | 3,0 | 0,0 | 11,50 | 9 | -0,12 | 10 | -1,2 | ||
| 9 | 3 | FM | Gombocz Ferenc Jr. | HUN | 2280 | 2,5 | 0,0 | 9,25 | 9 | -0,23 | 20 | -4,6 | ||
| 10 | 2 | FM | Borhy Marcell | HUN | 2406 | 2,0 | 0,0 | 8,00 | 9 | -2,35 | 10 | -23,5 |
I was thinking about the reasons and I think the main one is the lack of energy and then losing the focus.
Over the tournament I continued to teach my students, so spent around 25 hours teaching chess when played against young, well rested and prepared players. I just gave too much advantage.
The doubt and challenge was about my financial situation. I did not want to play the tourney and have no income for 9 days.
After the tourney I realized I can not both teach full time, prepare for the tourney, write a blog post, create a video and play the games.
I need to prioritize things. I need to prepare financially to play for the next tourneys.
If you would like to help me to concentrate fully on the tourneys when I play and would like to sponsor me, then please send me a message!
Today I selected some of the key positions of the tourney where my opponents or me had a good move to gain the advantage or save the game. I think these are good exercises. I suggest you to take 5-30 minutes each puzzle to solve. The best if you write down the solution to a paper and later compare it with the solution:
In the morning I studied 1 hour of tactics. You can solve a few of them on the diagrams and can watch the videos to solve the others:
