East Devon Congress, Open Section, 2007
Four games and no wins is so-so, but the blunder count was reassuringly
low, and I had a good attempt at winning a couple of games, including
the one against Helbig, who was the strongest player I faced. So,
progress of sorts.
{Wretchedly got a bye in the first round. }
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East Devon Congress, 2008
I think Harry and Laura were down again.
East Devon Congress, Open Section, 2009
A much better score, even though this may prove nothing more than the
workings of chance. The first game did feature an absolutely wretched
series of oversights, but the rest was quite heartening. In reality, I
don’t know that I was playing that much better; I was just present at
the scene when Ponter had a brainfart and Helbig was visibly impatient
to get the game over, with the usual consequence.
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East Devon Congress, 2010
I think Harry and Laura were down again.
East Devon Congress, 2011
Young Theo Slade was staying with me, and I didn’t want to be playing
when he was ready to go home.
East Devon Congress, Open Section, 2012
Young Theo Slade was staying with me again, and I didn’t want to miss
the chance of playing again!
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/P1000141.jpg
As usual, only one splash of colour in the room, and it’s me…
I had a good season last year and this one has been going better; I
expect my weekly sessions trying to keep up with Theo have something to
do with it. So, no longer content to draw with 160+ players, I made a
good start, but that was the best of it. Woodruff’s improvised opening
wasn’t hard to cope with, but I didn’t make much of it, and although I
played OK for the first part of the game against Mackle, the rest was
pretty lame. The Wensley game was awful, and although I had some ideas
against Stephens, I just missed the chance to pick up material and
immediately blew up, thrashing around trying to make something happen.
It all felt unbalanced and chaotic; bleah
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