Sunday, January 27, 2013

My only win in a recent tournament


[Event "Golden State Open"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gaffney, P.R."]
[Black "LaCounte, Brendan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A90"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]

1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 d5 5.O-O Bd6 6.c4 c6 7.Qc2 O-O
8.Rd1 Ne4 9.Ne5 Nd7 10.f4 Ndf6 11.Nd2 Bd7 12.Nxe4 fxe4 13.h3
Nh5 14.Kh2 Be8 15.Rf1 Bg6 16.Be3 Qe8 17.b4 Rc8 18.c5 Bb8 19.a4
a6 20.Qb3 Nf6 21.b5 Nd7 22.bxa6 bxa6 23.Qb7 Bxe5 24.fxe5 Nb8
25.Rxf8+ Kxf8 26.Rf1+ Kg8 27.Bg5 Bf7 28.Rxf7 Qxf7 29.Qxc8+ Qf8
30.Qxe6+ Qf7 31.Qxf7+ ( 31.Qc8+ Qf8 32.Bd8 h6 33.Qxb8 Kh7 34.Qd6
Qf2 35.Qxc6 Qxd4 36.e3 Qxe3 37.Qxd5 Qe2 38.Qxe4+ Qxe4 39.Bxe4+
Kg8 40.e6 Kf8 41.e7+ Ke8 42.Bg6+ Kd7 43.e8=Q+ Kc8 44.Bb6+ Kb7
45.Be4# ) Kxf7 32.h4 h6 33.Bf4 Nd7 34.Bh3 Nf8 35.Bc8 Ne6 36.e3
Ke7 37.Bxa6 g5 38.Bc8 gxf4 39.Bxe6 fxe3 40.Bg4 1-0


All the rest of my games were very poor playing on my part.  I dropped pieces went headlong into tactics I saw but didn't do anything to stop.  Just really poor mental toughness on my part. 

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