*Four games finished in 18 moves or fewer, but only one of them was drawn, and that only after a threefold repetition.
*I blundered my queen in consecutive games, with my other loss coming when I allowed a mate-in-two.
*My score of +4=2-3 gained 10.2 elo, whereas last year in the same U2000 tournament I lost 6.2 elo after scoring +5=2-2.
*My first two opponents and my last two had surnames starting with K.
*In round five I played Boris Litfin. It was the fifth time since 2018 we have met in this tournament, and I have won every time, despite being the lower-rated player each year except 2022.
*Both my wins against higher-rated opponents came on the black side of the Vienna: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6.
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