My Upcoming FIrst Tournament
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Oct 15, 2007
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I say stick with the "Daily Puzzles" and the Chess Tactics Server. This should really help you quicly spot winning or saving tactics during your games. Unless you are at +2200 or above the game will most likely come down to whoever sees the tactics the best.
Good luck!
Alas! It has come. My first chess tournament is this coming Saturday. It's four-1 hour games, and is a registration tournament for the city's metro-chess league. Being my first tournament, I have no idea what to expect. But, I will never know truly until I got to one.
However, I was wondering how I should prepare for this chess tournament. I improved a fair bit over the summer, but now that school's begun I haven't spent time on chess more than just the daily puzzle and 5 minutes or so a day on chess.emrald.net. How should I prepare myself for 4 hours of essentially non stop chess? I have maybe 15-20 minutes a day I can devote to preparing. I'm pretty good with the mental aspect, and there are no ratings at this tournament, so I don't need to worry about that.
Any pointers/tips/whatever you'd like to tell me would be gladly appreciated.
Secondly, any solid openings you'd recommend (ideally systems) which will (hopefully) bring me a balanced middle game?
I know anyone can play through an opening logically, I just don't want to spend half my time playing the opening, only to have massive time pressure in an endgame.