Tournament #3
Touranment #3 : Phi Kappa Blanca 9/30/89
NCSU Student Union, Raleigh, NC
TD: Robert Singletary
Section: U1400
Time Control: 40/90, G/30
I actually found the next 3 tournaments (as well as rounds 1 and 3 from tournament #2) hidden in some lose papers that were stored with my scorebooks. I don't have any specific recolection of my opponents in these tournaments and I was clearly still developing my game at this point. There might likely be one or two more tournaments that neither I or the USCF have records for, but at this point, I will really never know.
At the tournaments held in the Student Unions (both at NCSU and UNC) there was a game room in the basement (UNC even had a bowling alley!). I would go down there and hang out between rounds. Especially in many of these early tournaments...since I was a much faster player back then. After round one, I went down there only to find that they were closed for a 9-ball tournament. I joined figuring I had 2 hours before round 2 AND I had never played serious pool anyway (and had never played 9-ball at all). Much to my surprise, I actually ended up advancing into round 4 (final 8) of that tournament, but it was getting close to 2 and I was a bit worried about the potential conflict. I went upstairs to check the pairings and it turned out that I ended up with a bye in round 2 of the chess tournament anyway. I was able to stay in the pool tournament, but ended up losing round 4. And isn't it sad that I did better in a pool touranment than a chess tournament, LOL!
Round 1 : Game #7
Round 2 : Bye (no game)
Round 3 : Game #8
Recap: +0 =0 -2
Rating: 975/6 -> ???
Total: +1 =0 -7
PKB: +1 =0 -4
