This was the first tournament I've played since the club championship and also signaled an end to my short hiatus from chess. I lost my game with Weikel, but I feel pretty good about how I played in that game. I played very aggressively in all games and achieved quick wins in the four games I did win. My rating even went up a little bit. Here are all 5 games. They are pretty entertaining but I need to work harder to avoid the stupid mistakes that I made.

I still need to post some games from over the summer but I'm going to try and stay current in the mean time.

I have started playing at Reno Chess Club again and won my first three games. None of them went over 30 moves. Tonight I face Jerry Weikel, a Reno chess club legend and Tournament Director of the big Reno tournaments. He has been playing extremely well this tournament and I feel like this will be a very good game. I'm excited about it. Also I have been following the tournament in Bilbao, some amazing chess going on. I feel like I play much better when I've been watching high-level games. Not just looking over them but actually following them live. There was a post I started a long time ago about that topic that I never finished, I should probably work on that. Anyways.. just checking in.