Finally 1200 rating rapid!

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Amonchess

Could have been 1200 last night, made some silly mistakes, for example:

his queen was ripe for the taking!!!! But in my defence I was laying in bed at 3AM in the dark. 

 

 

And the game after that I blundered too! But again, laying on my bed at 3AM in the dark, ready to go to sleep.

 

 

How look at my last 4 matches! All won!

 



 
The next match is against a much higher rated player! But I won! Tactics on chess.com help a lot! This was a tactical game for me.

 

Fourth and the match to get me to 1204 rapid on chess.com: the one I am most proud of! The one I was sure was going to end in either a draw or my win:

 

 

My opponent was pressuring me a lot! I was sure I was going to get checkmated soon. But then I check with my knight and he resigned. I was just going to keep checking him with my knight or go for the checkmate if he went Kf1. 

A great day and a great preparation for my first OTB tournament next week (rapid chess)!

dylana64
Good job and good luck on your tournament! I used to be 1250 in rapid but I am stuck in a slump and lost over 100 rating points :(

Hope you have better luck than I do in rapid in the future :)
MickinMD

Congratulations!  I hope you're soon at 1300!