Tournament

I played in another tournament this past weekend. A quad which turned into a three round swiss. I scored 3-0 and won first place. I'm happy with my play but...

(G/90)
First round: Unrated father (of two kids playing in the scholastic section) who only agreed to play so we'd have an even number of players. He wasn't very good, I'm not going to go over this game.

Second round: The toughest round, an older gentleman ranked 1100 (something) , I had an advantage out of the opening (I was black) and really I think I misplayed it somewhere in there. I was a pawn up into the endgame but once again I missplayed the endgame and screwed up my pawn structure and then it was R + P (me) vs. R and I was able to win. BUT he should've drew and just didn't know what to do. I will go over this game and annotate it and put it here.

Third round: A youngster, rated 1000 (something) I was white against his scandanavian and he had a huge advantage at the start of the opening but then he blundered bad and I won his knight with a fork. I thought I had a brilliant tactic at the end but of course I did not and ended up giving back my extra knight for two pawns. I was then up two pawns and had a passer on the sixth rank and cleaned it up nicely considering I'm weak in the endgame. (To be honest a blind monkey could've won it, but still.)

First round game was fast because he wasn't very good, the second round game I took around an hour and the third round game we were both fast because he was a kid and I had a 2.5 hour drive back to Richmond (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it).

I like rated games but wish there was something closer. I was on the road for around 5 hours yesterday just so I could play three chess games. It kind of stinks. (there was a father and son from Richmond there as well, just goes to show there is nothing around here).

All my games were against players lower rated than my 2 game provisional rating so I'm not exactly ecstatic, especially since I should've drew the 1100.