A hardfought (but bad) game and lots of bughouse: Clark Harmon Memorial Round 3

NM Joseph_Truelson

Updated: Apr 14, 2016, 1:34 PM | 0

On April 9th, 2016, at 7pm, the 3rd round of the Clark Harmon Memorial Reserve commenced (Who even cares about the open section!) I was to play Dustin Bosch, rated 1685 provisional, who had 2/2. The other perfect score belonged to Brandon Jiang, who took 2 byes for Rounds 3 and 4, and got to play me in Round 5. More on that later...

Between rounds, we had lots of fun playing bughouse. Everyone has really weird openings.Revanth and his friend liked playing h4, h5, and if the opponent plays h6 then g6 would win almost immediately. However, during the tournament, I started getting better and better at attacking and soon h4 was bad and I would get the attack. Knight sacs (Nf3-e(g)5-xf7) wasn't very common because now we are too good to refute that. I'm not sure what the next opening will be.

But in my game, the opening was a Petroffs, and I hoped to punish my opponent and share tied first going into day two.

What a horrible endgame! After the draw I had 2/3 going into the last day, and if I won my last two games I had chances to tie for first.

Would it happen? Read my next blog to find out...

(I am the king of fake drama)

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Hi everybody! I write blogs about most of the tournaments that I go to. Feel free to look at my blogs! I always try to be funny, upbeat, and provide a different style of writing from the usual tournament report. I make new blogs when I feel like it, which tends to be after a tournament is over. -Me in 2016

I used to make lots of blogs, from 2015-2017. Sadly, I will admit, I’ve become a lazier person, and with my new part time job, I really don’t have as much time. I don’t use my free time wisely, and as a result, I unfortunately stopped making blogs. I’m working on doing better things with my free time; writing blogs was a challenge, but a rewarding one. I really hope I can get back on track and write about my tournaments again. -April 2018

Note: Some of these blogs have games, and others will not. They will not be entirely serious. If you want to read good content, read my events after the Washington Open, it appears my blogs before then were pretty bad. Also, reading them in chronological order will also make more sense, as then you will be able to understand the jokes, stories, and other things that I mention or refer to (such as if I've played the same opponent before).

The RAR movement is mentioned in many blogs of course. Don’t take it to have a definite definition, but RAR has something to do with being unethical (cheating and intimidating) or just plain lucky.

Here is a list of my tournament blogs:

2015

Vancouver Open

SCC Tornado

Seattle Fall Open: Day 1

Seattle Fall Open: Day 2

SCC September Tornado

Mukilteo Free Rapid Quads 1

Mukilteo Free Rapid Quads 2

2015 Northwest Chess Open

Washington G/60 Championship Day 1

Washington G/60 Championship Day 2