Not a bad start to 2008 as I have accomplished something I have never accomplished before. For the first 8 months of the year, our club is first focused on the class championships, and then the club championship. For the last 4 years I have not been able to participate in these tournaments because I was living in Chicago, and then in Vegas. So this year I am excited that I am finally able to participate in both these events, it is something I looked forward to for a long time. The last time I played the Class Championships I was 17, and I had to play B because my rating was 1601. It took me 3 years after that tournament to keep my rating over 1600. Needless to say I didn't really belong in that class and I scored very poorly. The situation for this tournament was very different. This time I was the top seed. But I still managed to win rather unconvincingly, David Peterson surprised everyone with a very strong performance scoring 4/5 in the first 5 rounds but lost last night which meant that my 4.5/6 was good enough to win the tournament.

I posted every game but for easy reference:

Round 1: W vs Barry Brandt
Round 2: D vs David Peterson
Round 3: W vs Grant Fleming
Round 4: W vs Eric Shoemaker
Round 5: L vs Edwin Simanis
Round 6: W vs George Fischer