BEAU CHESS - the post-work workings-out of a chess amateur

I begin this blog after getting back into league chess following many years' absence due to work. My post-job status also means I am able to play more tournament chess. My new club in London is Battersea and my first game for them is on Thursday September 14, 2017. I start with a Fide rating of 1858, an ECF grade of 169 (=1968 elo) and an ICCF correspondence rating of 2267. My current Fide is 1902, my ECF is 1913 and my ICCF is 2277.

Sunday 24 March 2019

Prize Money

I PICKED up 80 euros at the closing ceremony in Bad Wörishofen after coming fourth-sixth in the U2000 (I was seeded 16th).
Although I have a huge backlog of chess books to read - and an even huger backlog of books to study - I had already spent some of my anticipated prize money on Chess Blueprints - Planning In The Middlegame by Nikolay Yakovlev and Traps In The Opening - 250 Gambits And Mazes On The Chess Board by András Mészáros.

My purchases

The books were hard to resist as they cost just three euros and one euro respectively from the congress bookstall's discount crates.
*The Bad Wörishofen congress website at chessorg.de has my rating gain as 24 elo, but my calculations confirm it, as stated in yesterday's post, as 32.6.

BEAU CHESS - the post-work workings-out of a chess amateur

Sunday 24 March 2019

Prize Money

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