Hi again. In my last post I wrote a recap of my first year of chess and was prepared to start my second year at the same tournament I started the first one: Sant Boi. This time I could not join the weakest group and I had to play the strongest on...
Hi again. Here are the games played in my fourth slow OTB tournament. This was an U2100 tournament with 58 players in which I was the 26th of the startink ranking, and the first one I had to play 2000+ rated players. My own rating was 1915 at that...
Next friday I'll start to play at a new tournament: the XXVIII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. What makes it special is that there I played my first over-the-board game just one year ago! One year of chess is a good (thought arbitrary) point to s...
Recently I played my third slow OTB tournament. This was an U2000 tournament with 67 players in which I was the 56th of the startink ranking. It was the first time I do not play at the last group so my opponents were a bit stronger. Also, it was ...
Recently I played my second slow OTB tournament. Instead of having a post for every game, I'll put them all in a single post. This is more for my own reference than to publish them, as there's few interesting in them. You're warned, if you contin...
Hi again, here is my last game at XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. This last round I played Qijun Jin, from El Prat. Before the game he was second in the tournament with 6 points, and I was tied at third position with 5.5; if he got a win or...
Hi again, here is my eight game at XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. This round I played Josep Maria Salvador, a player from Moli Nou. Let me start by the ending. After struggling most of the game I achieved to get a winning endgame. The win...
Here again, here is my seventh game at XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. My opponent this round was Bernabé Hornos from Gavà. It was a very short game (just 20 moves), decided by a tactical blow. After four sicilian games in a row we played ...
Hi again, here it is (a bit late) my sixth game at XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. This time I played black against a young player named Pedro Escoriza. It was the fourth sicilian game in a row, although my oponent chose to play a not very...
Hi again, here it is the fifth game at XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. This time I had to face another experienced 1900+ player, Jordi Sanchez Viana. The game was another Sicilian defense (the third in a row) in which black played a sort o...
Hi again, here it is the fourth game at XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. After losing the third game very badly I faced Jordi Cots, a strong player (for a U1950 tournament) who was a bit delayed in the ranklist because he could not play the ...
Hi again, yesterday I played my third game in the XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. It was a very disappointing game, not for the result itself (I'll lose lots of games in the future, I hope), but because the fact I actually didn't play a che...
Hi again, yesterday night I played my second game in the XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi, which finished in a draw after we both had our chances in a game that had a positional fight at first, then a tactical flash that finished in a major s...
As I told you a few days ago, I've joined a Chess Club and I was going to play my first official on-the-board game. The tournament is the XXVII Internacional Vila de Sant Boi. As an starting player in the Catalan Federation I start with a 1700 ra...
Hi again, some weeks after my last post I write again to tell you some news and comment some games. A couple of games with tactically challenging As I told you in a previous post, I use Scid to organize and store my own games. You can check it ...
My games database is growing, and I must say I'm getting good results. In 62 games: 50 wins, 4 draws and 8 loses, increasing my rating from 1712 to 1852 Main reason for such good results has been following the advice aussiedj gives at this articl...
First of all, i want to warn you that it's likely this post won't be useful for you. Despite all it's just my first test post in a new blog, I'll write some lines to introduce me and, just in case it can be useful for you, some free tools I'm usin...
