US Amateur Team East Player Needed?

Rather last minute, I'm considering playing in the US Amateur Team East.  Is anyone currently looking for a player with a USCF supplement rating of 1952? 

In case you don't find anyone, you can email noreenchess@gmail.com and she will put you on a team. The only problem is that it may be a team with a bunch of 800s.

Wow.  Wha you're saying is that I better find a team.  

Dave, good luck!

Thanks, Harvey.

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Lewis, check with your dad to see if you and your brother would like to do it. It's in New Jersey. We could be a team. We would just need a 4th person.

I played, got 2/6 against avg of under 1900 and probably lost about 40 points. Wasn't like what usually happens to me when I play in Philly tho. Other than one game (against a 1700) all my losses were due to simple class D-level blunders with plenty of time on my clock.

My team did very well in spite of me though. Despite all of us being right around 2000 the rest of my team scored a combined 11/18 and our board four got five points. In the last two rounds our team drew two matches against teams with averages of 2175 and 2194.

I didn't see you if you did play but I still haven't decided (stupidly, since it always ends the same way) whether I want to play in the Philadelphia Open this year. In the meantime I need to figure out how to stop hanging things. Thought I was past that. 

Hi DPNorman, I just clicked on your profile.  Says USCF 2010!  Now I don't feel so bad when I blunder and hang pieces like the "D" player that I am, lol.  Happens to players rated much higher than me too!

Yeah my rating going into the tournament was 2014 USCF but it's certainly not gonna be over 2000 after they submit this tournament lol!

Players rated around 2000 are still capable of making major blunders and I think an important moment in many players' chess improvement is the realization that players they previously thought of as very good still do really stupid things very often. I suppose this is the next thing I have to focus on. Might have something to do with my all-over-the-place sort of thought process, or just carelessness. Need to work on it. 

 Would it be too much pain to post and annotate an Expert brain fart?

There is another thread about how to analyze your own games.   And there are categories of errors and blunders.   It would be instructive to see your analysis of your losses and what you will do to eliminate those types of errors from your play going forward. 

I also played, lost to a 1750 in the 1st round then got 4/5 in the remaining rounds (I was on Board 4). My team also did well, and we got 5/6(17/24), losing only to the 1st place team, and winning top scholastic team!

I went down to NYC to play at the Marshall CC on Saturday and Sunday, and then went back to Boston to play at the MetroWest CC on Tuesday.  I lost the games to higher rated, mostly because of the control (G/45 d5), and I crushed the lower rateds.  I had a 13-move win vs an 1801.  I was up two pawns against a 2050 with 2 minutes left to his 15, which pretty much was the story against the higher rateds.

Eh, you'll bounce back.  Just keep grinding.  It's a headache, but you've got to embrace the grind.

Strange things happen at that tournament.  I hear it is unlike any other tournament, because it's almost like a big chess party.