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 2035, my ECF is 1942 and my ICCF is 2374.

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Sunday, 15 April 2018

Scoring 0%

PLAYED at St Albans over the weekend, losing all three of my games on Saturday in the U181 (against players graded 180, 158 and 145).
I cannot remember ever losing three (non-rapid) games in one day before.
The playing conditions were certainly no excuse as the tournament hall was spacious, despite hosting five sections, and the facilities, including catering, plenty of toilets and even a bookstall (courtesy of Chess & Bridge), were also good.
The only knock on the venue is its isolation, a long way from any shops and even further from the mainline rail station, but all in all it is definitely a tournament I would be happy to go back to.
To be fair, I did do a little better today, drawing with a 169 and beating a 106 for an overall grading performance of 135.