First place finish in USCF Online rated ICC tournament

>uscf You won!!! Congratulations! This is your 4 1st place finish

> During the 5 rounds, you collected 4.5 points

>uscf 

>   4.5 yoshi LiangLiang

>   4.0 cashout

>   3.5 wcorbit1

>   3.0 canary2016 itemsfront KingsBishop tigeriz smgsmg21

>   2.5 tony1209 Allah99

>   2.0 wmanthony BillietheKid CarbonPawn ickyquarter capatal1 BIRDSMAN

>   1.5 Heian amueller MHanDaMan

>   1.0 Gamebuilder123 ROWLAND crunk-dawg

>   0.5 pawninthegrass

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>   /_  __/ __ \/ / / / __ \/ | / / ____/\ \/ /  / __ \ |  / / ____/ __ \

>    / / / / / / / / / /_/ /  |/ / __/    \  /  / / / / | / / __/ / /_/ /

>   / / / /_/ / /_/ / _  _/ /|  / /___    / /  / /_/ /| |/ / /___/ _  _/ 

>  /_/  \____/\____/_/ |_/_/ |_/_____/   /_/   \____/ |___/_____/_/ |_|

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>    Congratulations yoshi and Thanks to all :-)

The last round game I was likely winning, but because I was very low on time, I took a draw.  I am sure that I missed opportunities to win this game, but I didn't have much time to figure it out.

[Event "ICC tourney 1273 (12 3)"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2017.06.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "yoshi"]
[Black "LiangLiang"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
[WhiteElo "1659"]
[BlackElo "1682"]
[Opening "QGD: 4.Nf3"]
[ECO "D37"]
[NIC "QI.01"]
[Time "18:58:50"]
[TimeControl "720+3"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. e3 Be7 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Bd3 Nf8
8. O-O Ng6 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 c6 12. d5 cxd5 13. Bxd5 O-O 14.
Be3 Bf6 15. Qb3 Bxb2 16. Bxf7+ Rxf7 17. Ng5 Qf8 18. Nxf7 Bxa1 19. Nh6+ Kh8
20. Bc5 Be6 21. Qxe6 Qe8 22. Nf7+ Kg8 {Game drawn by mutual agreement}
1/2-1/2

Peter Svidler analyses Aronian - Carlsen, Norway Chess 2017

This analysis is very detailed quite interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XBcbpc7ays

Re: Maybe my first clear 1st place in the chess.com USCF online rated speed tournament.

I did a detailed analysis of the game.  Personally, I found the endgame variations instructive.

http://onlinechessgamesblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/english.html

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

Maybe my first clear 1st place in the chess.com USCF online rated speed tournament.

There was one master in the tournament who got beat by KingsBishop and then dropped out, and in the next round I beat KingsBishop.

My only game against a higher rated player was a nice endgame victory for me...

[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2017.06.07"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Troy8"]

[Black "john2001plus"]

[Result "0-1"]

[ECO "E01"]

[WhiteElo "1988"]

[BlackElo "1854"]

[Annotator "Coffey,John"]

[PlyCount "118"]

[EventDate "2017.??.??"]

[TimeControl "180+2"]

1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 c6 5. Qc2 Bd6 6. d4 O-O 7. Nbd2 Nbd7 8. e4

dxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4 10. Qxe4 Nf6 11. Qh4 Qa5+ 12. Bd2 Bb4 13. Qf4 Rd8 14. O-O

Bxd2 15. Nxd2 e5 16. dxe5 Qxd2 17. Qxd2 Rxd2 18. exf6 Rxb2 19. Rfe1 Be6 20.

fxg7 Bxc4 21. Rab1 Rxb1 22. Rxb1 Bxa2 23. Rxb7 Bd5 24. Bxd5 cxd5 25. Rd7 a5 26.

Rxd5 a4 27. Rd2 a3 28. Ra2 Kxg7 29. Kf1 Kf6 30. Ke2 Ke5 31. Kd3 Kd5 32. f3 Kc5

33. Kc3 f5 34. g4 fxg4 35. fxg4 Kd5 36. Kd3 Ke5 37. Ke3 Ra4 38. h3 Re4+ 39. Kf3

Rf4+ 40. Kg3 Ra4 41. Kh4 Kf4 42. Kh5 Kg3 43. h4 Ra6 44. g5 Ra5 45. Kh6 Kxh4 46.

g6 hxg6 47. Kxg6 Kg4 48. Kf6 Kf4 49. Ke6 Ke4 50. Kd6 Kd4 51. Kc6 Kc4 52. Kb6

Kb4 53. Kc6 Rh5 54. Rg2 Rh6+ 55. Kd5 Ra6 56. Rg4+ Kb5 57. Rg1 a2 58. Ra1 Kb4

59. Kd4 Kb3 0-1

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com