Summer Tournament Week 4

Hi all!

Week 4 of FM Neustroev's Online Summer Tournament is wrapping up tomorrow, and week 5 pairings should be up soon. My winning streak came to an end this week when I decided to try a sacrifice with poor results. If nothing else, it is a good learning opportunity, and was an unusually aggressive style from my norm. Here is the game with analysis:

This week I have continued working on tactics, though never as disciplined as I'd like, and tried solving easy tactics blindfolded. Now that could use some work! Later it was decided I would still skip step one of the blindfold process (simply solving the puzzle), but would start at step 2 rather than step 3. Working through puzzles this way seems to be best for me right now.

   On Sunday this week I have signed up for another tournament through Hamissauga Chess Club and the Canadian Federation of Chess. It is a 5 game open swiss with 15+10 time controls. After that, on to week 5 of this tournament. Looks like there is potential for 2 players to have a perfect score after this round. 

   Until next week...

Best Regards,

Jason Huot

Tricks of Chess: https://www.chess.com/club/tricks-of-chess

Results after 3 rounds: https://www.chess.com/news/view/new-online-chess-tournament-summer-2020-3rd-round