First OTB

Good luck for the remaining games. would like to see the games sometimes.

Well, all is over and I'm home now.

Final result, 2/5. 1 win, 2 draws, and 2 losses. Not bad, but I could have 1-3-1.

Every game have a story.

I hate this stupid website, I'm writing something for 1 hour and than it's all gone....

Short, 1st board me

2nd board a retard who lost 2 games after 6 moves, 1 when he mixed up bishop and queen and wanted to fight with TD. And he had 2 draws before 1 move has been played so he could go and drink beer.

3rd board a guy who could play decent game of chess, but had to go home after first day.

4th board, a guy who we found just so we could have team of 4 and play.

Lol at your team (especially your 2nd board), oh well not a bad game. As long as you had fun then it was all worth it.

Ok, game 1 day 1.

We are playing IRS (I only know USA name, but you know who I am talking about. Tax collectors)

I am nervous as hell. I'm youngest player there by far. I think that next youngest was 10-15 years older than me.

So setup the board, guy sit in front of me, we shake hands. I ask him are they professional players, no - he said. We are casual players. What did you do last year? We won.

Great, first game, my first OTB, and I'm playing 1st board vs. last year winners.

I did not do that bad, and I knew right after game everything I did wrong. I allowed black too much space, i did nothing when I had time to deal with dangerous black white square bishop, I played 3 knight moves that had no point and I misscalculated something when I had equal position. I did not see that I could play 23.Rfd1 after queens exchange. Considering that my first opponent was player of the tournament (I did not know that at the time) I did not do that bad.

Fiasco, but If I managed not to lose in 10 moves after last year winner, I had hope that I could win at least one game.

Btw, time controls are 20min/player.

You played good, the mistakes you made were the ones you pointed out. I looked up Gajic and all the Serbian ones were 2000+ FIDE rating so you did good.

6. e3 wasnt bad, I remember that I saw Carlsen or Ivanchuk play that move in Bazna because after bishop takes bishop you can play stuff like g3 then Bg2, Be2 etc, your very flexible in a position like that IMO.

@Memphisto you dont have any sense of humour.. also I wouldnt be proud of your picture.

hahaha.. sounds like a real circus..

Streps, whenever you're writing a lot of text, highlight it and copy it so it's stored in your clipping memory, in case it does get lost. This isn't the first time this has happened to you, from memory. It's happened to me quite a few times in the past, so I do a CTRL C every now and then during writing the long message or newspost/forum. A good backup when the back arrows won't take me back to my text. 

I remeber at the state junior champs which was one of my first tournaments i forgot to press the clock and my opponent pretended to look like he was in deep thought and it took me about 10 minutes to realise

 same thing happen to me

I know about save & preview, and copy everything before post, I just somehow forget to do that.

I was thinking, ok, not bad, I played a lot of 5 min games, I should be good with 20min/player. Boy, does time goes fast... I was in time trouble in almost every game.

Ok, game 2.

 Easier math is if you have 20 mins and 40 moves its 0.5 minute a move which is 30 seconds a move.

In my first tournament in a long time (over a decade), I played a practice game beforehand with the time control to be used (G/2:30 td/5) and found I averaged about 3 minutes/move, which works out to being able to play about a 50 move game. I decided that wasn't bad, but I'd be happier if I could play 60 moves without having to speed up at the end, so I played a bit faster when I got to the tournament. My first game lasted 81 moves. My opponent resigned with 2 seconds on his clock. I had 15 minutes left of the 2 and a half hours.

Lesson: Play at least one game before the tournament at the tournament time control to make sure your time management is where it needs to be.

lol yea, i used to do that too.  i think one of the problems is internet chess - we are used to playing ver quick games and calling them "standard". however, once we get to playing a stranger we can see, and we have six HOURS for the total game, chess takes on a new meaning.

With G/90 +30 I had a 5 hour game because it went to 127 moves and we were both very low on time... I think the TD wasn't very happy with us     It was a draw.

I was thrilled with the result because I dropped a pawn out of the opening and never regained it during the whole game and the guy was rated 200 points above me