Monthly Archives: July 2007

Updating blog links

By Steve | Published: July 4, 2007
I rarely have sleep problems, but my World Open frustrations have kept me up tonight. I find myself sitting at my laptop in my dark hotel room—and updating my blogroll! Isn’t that pathetic? Anyway, my blogroll had several stale links, and it was missing some new ones that I read now. I also made a separate [...]
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World Open: Second day

By Steve | Published: July 2, 2007
9.5 hours of chess today. More if you count some study time. Round 4: Draw. I was a pawn up and had some winning chances, but I let my bad bishop get worse, and my opponent successfully locked the position. Round 5: 5.5 hour loss. Very evenly played through most of the game. In the endgame, I [...]
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World Open: Another loss in round 2

By Steve | Published: July 1, 2007
Another disappointing game. I watched club regular David Harris’ board for a while. When I left he was trying to save the game with two bishops and a pawn against a rook and three pawns. I got paired out of round 3, so now there’s six rounds to go. Replayable game
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World Open: A loss in round 1

By Steve | Published: July 1, 2007
Game 1 featured my first horrible blunder of the tournament – overlooking a knight fork on move 25. I’m a little disappointed in the facilities here – the convention center and hotel look and feel kind of worn out. There don’t seem to be any outside shops or restaurants at all in the immediate area, so [...]
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