Round 2 of Tuesday Night Action 14!

chessnerdbird

Jul 7, 2015, 9:16 PM | 0

I did not feel great about playing tonight. I had finished the last Tuesday Night tournament with a score of 5-0-0 plus a win in an extra game thus having a 6 game winning streak. Since then I had done very little to study more chess due to moving my family to Charlotte. I had done a little but nothing that I felt was going to help tonight.

The game started out okay and I felt that I had some of the initiative when my opponent started making wing pawn moves and retreating some pieces but I could not keep the advantage that I felt that I had and put up win. Instead I probably pushed too hard and overextended myself allowing my position to get weaker instead of stronger.

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