USATE!!! part 1

Awwww yeah! The most fun tourney of the year! I know I'm over 2 months late in posting about this but it's here now!

For those who don't know, the US Amateur Team East takes place in Parsippany, NJ every year where 300+ teams compete annually. Each team has 4 players who play in rating order against other teams (board 1 plays board 1, board 2 plays board 2, etc). The team that is "white" for the round has white on boards 1 and 3. The catch is that the average rating has to be under 2200. Somehow we got a team with an average rating of 2199.25! Our team name was All About That Mate (not so subtle parody there). Here was our lineup (I won't give other players' names for privacy reasons).

Me - 2368                                                                          

Board 2 - 2259

Board 3 - 2181

Board 4 - 2063

I know at least 1 person out there whipped out their calculators and discovered that our avg rating was actually 2218! However, the only ratings that mattered were the monthly supplement ratings. Alright, on to round one!

We played a team with an avg rating of 1948. Note that it appears they played out of rating order, but I posted the live ratings here, not the supplements. Boards 3 and 4 won smoothly but our board 2 was lost at one point. However, his opponent blundered and lost. Therefore, we clinched the match early with a 3-0 score. However, my game was the last one going in the match and I did not play great chess and ended up drawing. Oh well. 5 more to go.

We were white against a team from Boston (I think their name was Deflate-Sack) and we had a pretty fortunate round. Board 2 looked to be worse but emerged from the tactical complications in a drawn position. Board 3 played a fantastic attacking game, and I didn't get to see the end of the board 4 game.  If I had lost the game (As I probably should have) the match would have been tied.

Sorry I didn't specify about the published/live ratings, I'll edit it now.

Can't wait for Part 2. Awesome report!

Great report!

great games, its fun to read... unlike sahils junky forums who no one gives a crap about

Very nice!

Have you considered putting this in a blog? It would be easier to access.

thaaanks jmb :)  will take a look later.

won md u22.  my opponent ripped up my scoresheet in the last round after a long ending in which i was up a pawn, that was fun.

lol my round 1 game was DEAD lost..and my round 2 was actually not losing..this tourney got me +30 :D best tourney..

FMchesskid wrote:

great games, its fun to read... unlike sahils junky forums who no one gives a crap about

Have some respect, citizen. My forums can't be compared, it's high-class ;)

5random we all want to see your last round game against jacobson.    last i saw i thought u would play Qxb1 then u played Ra3 instead.  idk what was going on at all.

thanks to jmb for showing the bonin game.  thats very very interesting.

Ugh idk Qxf1+ Rxf1 Rxa2 and its drawn with perpetual Qg5+ Qh5+ I forgot Qh4 Qf6+ I THOUGHT OF IT ..but still played it ..bad decision.

5random lost to jacobson.. and hes gets to go to the patzer us cadets... WHY WHY WHYYY
 

i meant that the US cadets is good tourney, but sinha is patzer and idk why they invited him