Monday, March 11, 2013

Golden state open 2013

After I had a very discouraging tournament, North american open in Vegas (open section), my anger and frustration made me enter in Golden state open without any doubt. But the question is that should I enter in Open section or U2200? Although the open section's entry fee was twice as cheaper than other sections (because i'm foreign fide rated player), I decided to play in U2200 to build my confidence.

I've been playing Golden State open since 2010. In 2010 and 2012,  I had a really bad tournament whereas in 2011,   I finished off with 5 points in  U2000 section with $300 prize money.  http://www.goldenstateopen.com/  Golden State open 2013 in U2200 section  was the most successful tournament I've played so far and scored full 6 points for clear 2nd and pocketed $1000.
Golden State open 2013, Round 7
With calm and confidence working on my 6th win
 There are some advantages helped me to do well. Golden state open is one of the biggest tournaments of  CCA (Continental Chess Assossation) in Bay Area, where I don't have to travel long since it's only 30 min drive from where i live. During the tournament days, I was resting very good and providing myself homemade food I cooked. Having a good sleep and good food are very important when you playing in chess tournaments. Thinking all day long behind the board requires a lot of energy and patience. Not an easy task! It can make people very exhausting and hungry.
Between the rounds in my free time I was trying to keep myself concentrated as much as possible. As an adult, there are so many things to worry about in life. It's not easy to forget about everything and think about chess for days without any distraction. So, I made a "Tournament Do or Do Not list" to remind myself some important but simple stuff in chess. The list can be created based on your own weaknesses that you think you need to improve. I wrote,  1."Do what the position wants you to do", 2."Do Not intimidate with your opponent. Play with your board, not with the person" and etc. This was another way that I was trying to discipline myself. On the other hand, How should I discipline myself after I lost? Losing is the worst part of the tournament. Most of the times,  it is too heartbreaking and too difficult to handle. This is the another psychological challenge for every chess player. After my 4th round which I lost, I was devastated because I thought I was  completely winning. After the game, I analyzed with my friend and realized it wasn't that simple as i thought. I misjudged the certain position and underestimated my opponent's two connected passed pawns while I was enjoying my extra piece. I still had one more game to play that day, obviously, it wouldn't be a good idea to regret and be miserable. So, I decided to play some ball with my friend to get my mind off of chess. Amazingly, it actually worked. I came back energetic and win my next round convincingly. That was the most exciting game on this tournament.
At last, I wanna say preparation is the key to success. A preparation gives you a confidence, a confidence can make a power. Chess is too complex to prepare although we can narrow it down by reviewing opening lines, studying tactics or working on your own games. Recently, I just picked up a new opening line for black, in which needs a tremendous study. It's not necessary to know everything in the opening but it is necessary to know your middlegame plan and what you'r doing. What I did in my preparation was very simple; mainly, I reviewed my openings to make sure I can reach a reasonable position to go on and worked on my games and mistakes to make sure I don't repeat them. I don't really think that what you are preparing is important, what's important is a preparation itself. Whatever you prepare can enhance your confidence to get you ready for the brutal chess battle.


Here is my games with an annotation:

3 day schedule, G/75  Jan 19, Round 1:

Uyanga Byambaa - Charles Tang [C10]
Golden State Open 2013 (1), 19.01.2013
[Byambaa,Uyanga]

Position after 16. Ra4
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Bd3 Ngf6 6.Nf3 Nxe4 7.Bxe4 Nf6 8.Bd3 c5 9.0-0 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bc5 11.Nb3 Bb6 12.a4 0-0 13.Bg5 Qd5 He allowed his king to be exposed a little bit and remained to have a pair bishops. [13...h6 14.Bf4 Nd5 15.Bg3 ]

14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.a5 Bc7 16.Ra4 Nice rook lift! One more piece join the attack besides bishop's aiming to h7 and queen placed on a nice diagonal d1-h5. However, black has a lot of sources he can defend.

16...f5 17.Rh4 Qe5 18.f4? Hanging b2 pawn wasn't really smart in this case because it's not a poisoned pawn. [18.Qh5 Qg7 19.f4 Qg6 20.Rf3 Qxh5 21.Rxh5 f6 22.Bc4 Kh8 23.Nd4 ]

18...Qf6 19.Rh3 [19.Qh5 again this was the best but I just didn't want to exchange my queens after he plays 19... Qg6. Unfortunately, keep hesitating to exchange off my queen worsened my position gradually. ]

19...Kh8 20.Rff3 threatening Rxh7+!

20...Rg8 21.c3 Rg4 22.Rfg3 Rxg3 23.hxg3 e5 24.fxe5 Bxe5 25.g4 Be6 both sides having a little bit of time pressure at this moment.

26.Nc5 Rg8 27.Nxe6 fxe6 28.gxf5 exf5 29.Qf3 b6 30.Bxf5 Rg7 31.Qa8+ black resigned. 1-0

 Round 2:

Anthony Alexander Blessing - Uyanga Byambaa [E97]
Golden State Open 2013 (2), 19.01.2013

Position after 33....Bb3

 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.Be3 Ng4 9.h3 Surprising move! I didn't think he could give up his dark square bishop in this position where the dark square bishop is very importand to have. However in return, white is obtaining the half open f-file. Nxe3 10.fxe3 Bh6 Now, he has some dark square problem's since the bishop is gone, so start attacking his weak dark squares. 11.Nd5 Be6 12.Kh1 Kh8 13.Nc3 Threatening to fork on d5. Bd7 14.Nd5 a5 15.Qb3 Qc8 16.Qc3 Bg7 17.Rad1 Nb4 18.a3 Nxd5 19.exd5 f5 20.dxe5 dxe5 21.e4 f4? fxe4 was better. 22.c5 Qe8 23.Rc1 Qe7 24.c6 bxc6 25.dxc6 Be6 26.Qc5 Qf6 27.Rfd1 Rfb8 28.Rd2 g5 that's where time trouble started. 29.Nh2 Bf8 30.Qc2 Rd8 31.Rcd1 Rxd2 32.Rxd2 Rd8 33.Bg4 Bb3! 34.Qc3 Rxd2 35.Qxd2 Qxc6 Black stands clearly better however; because of time trouble I made a lot of lousy moves that are leads to almost a draw. Luckily, my opponent blunder really bad at the end when he had only few seconds on the clock. 36.Nf3 Bd6 37.Nxg5 Kg7 38.Bf5 h6 39.Nf3 a4 40.Qf2 Qc1+ 41.Kh2 Bd1 42.Qe1 0-1


Round3:

Uyanga Byambaa - Ed Cohen [C50]
Golden State Open 2013 (3), 07.02.2013
[Byambaa,Uyanga]

Position after 19. h4
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.d4 exd4 [4...d6 5.dxe5 ]

5.Nxd4 Nf6 [5...d6 ]

6.Nc3 d6 7.0-0 0-0 8.h3 a6 9.a4 Bd7 10.Be3 Ne5 11.Bb3 c5 12.Nf5 Bc6!? it was very necessary to chop off my strong knight. My knight on f5 is much stronger than his bishop, so he shouldn't let my knight sit there forever. 13.Bd5  [13.f4 Ng6 14.Qf3 ]  13...Re8 14.f4 Ng6 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Qf3 Bf8 17.Rad1 Qc7 18.g4 h6 19.h4 Fearless. My plan is simple; just attack his kingside since he doesn't have any counterplay on queenside or even center. Re6 20.h5 Nh8 21.g5 Pawns are just keeps coming,  trying to open up the position. Nxe4? Unfortunately, his position is too cramped and that makes him play a dubious move like that.   22.Nxe4 Rae8 23.Neg3 g6 24.gxh6 gxf5 25.Nxf5 Another knight sits on the f5 square. Kh7 26.Kh1 f6 27.Rg1 Qf7 28.Bf2 Bxh6 29.Nxd6 Qc7 30.Qd3+ Black resigned. 1-0

 A Perfect score so far. Very nice start!

Jan 20, Round 4:

Siddarth Banik - Uyanga Byambaa [B33]
Golden State Open 2013 (5), 04.02.2013
[Byambaa,Uyanga]

Position after 27.Qd5
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c4 [11.c3 ]

11...b4 12.Nc2 a5 13.g3 0-0 14.Bg2 Bg5 15.0-0 Be6 [15...Ne7 ]

16.b3 Ne7 17.f4 Bh6 [17...exf4 18.Nxf4 ]

18.Qh5 f5? [18...Bxd5 19.cxd5 (19.exd5 Qb6+ 20.Kh1 exf4=/+ ) ]

19.fxe5 Bxd5 20.exd6 [20.exd5 dxe5 21.d6 Qxd6 22.Bxa8 Rxa8 23.Rad1 Qc5+ 24.Kg2+/= ]

20...Bf7 21.Qd1 Nc6 22.c5 fxe4? [22...Qd7 23.Rxf5 Be6 24.Rxf8+ Rxf8 25.Qe2 ]

23.Bxe4 Rc8 24.Rxf7 Rxf7 25.Bd5 Ne5? [25...Qf6 26.Qe2 Qf5 27.Rd1 Rcf8 ]

26.Bxf7+ Nxf7 27.Qd5 Qg5? [27...Qd7= ]

28.d7 Rd8 29.Re1 Kf8 30.Qc6 Ne5 31.Qd6+ Qe7 32.Rxe5 Qxd6 33.cxd6 Rxd7 34.Rxa5 Bd2 35.Rd5 Bc3 36.a3 bxa3 37.Nxa3 Kf7 38.Nc4 Ke6 39.Rd3 Bb4 40.Kf2 h5 41.Re3+ Kf5 42.Re5+ Kg6 43.Ke2 Bc3 44.Kd3 Ba1 the rest was very straightforward win for white. 1-0


Round 5:

Uyanga Byambaa (2094) - Joshua Cao (2035) [B33]
Golden State Open 2013 (5), 30.01.2013
[Byambaa,Uyanga]

Position after 18.c4
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.Bxb5 I could've gone for main line 11.Bd3 but I found this move very interesting. Sac probably not that sound although this side line is very playable. In my opinion, position is unclear. 

11...axb5 12.Nxb5 Rb8 Inaccuracy! 12...Ra4 should've been played. The idea behind that is threatening to take e4 pawn with check, so white forced to castle, which slows his attack by one move. [12...Ra4 13.Nbc7+ Kd7 14.0-0 Rxe4 15.Qh5 Ne7 16.Qxf7 Kc6 17.c4~~ ] 

13.Nbc7+ Kd7 14.Qh5 Ne7 15.Qxf7 Rb7? [15...Kc6 16.b4 Nxd5 17.b5+ Rxb5 18.exd5+ Rxd5 19.Qxd5+ Kxc7 20.Rb1 ] 

16.Ne6 Qa5+ 17.b4 Qb5 18.c4 [18.a4! Qc4 19.Nf6+ Kc6 20.Nd8+ Kc7 21.Qxc4++- ] 

18...Qxc4 19.Nb6+ Rxb6 20.Nxf8+ Rxf8 21.Qxc4 Ba6 22.Qb3 Nc6 23.a3 fxe4 24.Rc1 Bd3 25.f3 Nd4 26.Qa4+ Ke6 27.fxe4 Ra6 28.Qd1 Rxa3 29.Qg4+ Kf6 30.Qh4+ Kg6 31.Qg3+ Kh6 32.h4 Rf4 33.Qg5# 1-0

Jan 21, Round 6:

Paul Richter - Uyanga Byambaa [B30]
Golden State Open 2013 (6), 04.02.2013
[Byambaa,Uyanga]

Position after 24....Rad6
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 [3...e5 4.Bc4 Be7 5.d3 d6 6.Nd2 Nf6 7.Nf1 Bg4 8.f3 Be6 9.Ne3 0-0 10.0-0 Rb8 11.Ned5 Nd4 12.a4 Nxd5 13.exd5 Bc8 14.Ne4 f5 15.Nxc5 dxc5 16.d6+ Be6 17.Bxe6+ Nxe6 18.dxe7 Qxe7 19.Re1 Qd6 20.c3 Rbd8 ]

4.Bc4 [4.d4 ]

4...Bg7 5.0-0 e6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nb5 d6 8.Nfxd4 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 a6 10.c3 Ne7 11.Bg5 h6 12.Bh4 0-0 13.Re1 Qc7 14.Bb3 Nc6 15.Nxc6 bxc6 16.Qd2 a5 17.Bg3 e5 18.f3 [18.Rad1 Rd8 ]

18...a4 19.Bc4 Ba6 20.Bxa6 Rxa6 21.Bf2 Rd8 22.c4 d5!? A Pawn sac in order to dominate the d- file. 23.cxd5 cxd5 24.exd5 Rad6 25.Rad1 Qc4 26.Ra1? This was his only serious mistake. Rxd5 27.Qe2 Qb4 28.Be3 e4 29.fxe4 Qxe4 30.Bb6 Qxe2 31.Rxe2 Rb8 32.Bc7 Rb7 33.Rc1 Bxb2 34.Rc4 Bd4+ 35.Kf1 Rb1+ 36.Re1 Rf5+ resign 0-1

Round 7:

Uyanga Byambaa - Jamsh Alamenzadex [C41]
Golden State Open 2013 (7), 07.02.2013
[Byambaa,Uyanga]

Position after 29....Rxe5

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nd7 3.Nc3 e5 4.dxe5 dxe5 5.Nf3 c6 6.Bc4 Be7 7.0-0 Ngf6 8.Bb3 h6 9.h3 g5 Unexpected move! it's hard to believe that he was trying attack me on kingside. At first glance, it looked way premature but it might be resourceful. 10.Nh2 Nc5 11.Qe2 Nxb3 12.axb3 Bd7 13.Be3 b6 14.Rfd1 Qc8 15.Qa6 0-0 16.Qxc8 Rfxc8 17.Nf3 Be8 18.Nxe5 Now I'm a solid pawn up and have the important open file. Nh5 19.Ng4 Kg7 20.e5 Nf4 21.Ne4 c5 22.Bxf4 gxf4 it's true he has the pair bishops but are they better than my knights? Answer is NO. My knights are well placed, more active and if it's necessary i can always trade them off with his bishops. .23.Nd6 Rc7 24.Nf5+ Kg6 25.Nxe7+ Rxe7 26.Rd6+ Re6 27.Rad1 h5 28.Nf6 Kf5 29.Nxh5 Rxe5 30.g4+ fxg3 31.f4 Re3 32.Kg2 Re6 33.R1d5+ Kg6 34.f5+ Kxh5 35.fxe6+ f5 36.Rxf5+ Kg6 37.Rf4 Rc8 38.e7+ Kg5 39.Kxg3 Black resigned. 1-0

Here is the result: http://goldenstateopen.com/

Final Standings

#NameRtngStRd 1Rd 2Rd 3Rd 4Rd 5Rd 6Rd 7Tot
Prize
1Siddharth G Banik2033CAW60W49W30W2W7W11D46.5
$1500.00
2WFM Uyanga Byambaa2094CAW31W20W54L1W12W10W76.0
$1000.00
3Jack Qijie Zhu2180CAL20W26D51W40D15W27W115.0
$300.00
4Udit Iyengar2091CAD38L29W36W32W28W17D15.0
$300.00
5Steven Gaffagan2078CAW39D40D24D30W51D21W225.0
$300.00
6Scott Treiman2072UTL40W66W16W29L11W23W215.0
$300.00
7Jamsh Alamehzadeh1961CAW57W17W37W42L1W26L25.0
$600.00
8Matthew K Ng2167CAH—H—D31W41D19D15W244.5
9Michael Wang2080CAW45L30L38W52W33W19D134.5
10Paul Richter2070CAW46D48W40D21W24L2D144.5
11Benjamin X Tong2053CAW41W56D21W22W6L1L34.5
12Joshua Cao2035CAL48W45W14W38L2W29D154.5
13Ethan Li2033AZD24D16D32W59D29W42D94.5
14Valeriy Timofeyev1975CAD33D52L12W46W45W25D104.5
$100.00
15Yuan Wang1954CAH—H—W53W54D3D8D124.5
$100.00
16Damon S Mosk-Aoyama1917CAH—D13L6D60W59W37W314.5
$100.00
17Greg Kenneth C Lope2071CAW23L7W25W37D21L4H—4.0
18Kevin Moy2009CAH—L24L41W49D32W52W334.0
19Praveen Narayanan2002CAL49W46D59W48D8L9W474.0
20Anthony Alexander Blessing1997CAW3L2W61L24D37D30W424.0
21Ivan Troufanov1985CAW59W61D11D10D17D5L64.0
22Rayan Taghizadeh1981CAH—W43W33L11D25W35L54.0
23Christopher Au1947CAL17W57H—H—W53L6W434.0
24Peter Thomas Korzeb1920HID13W18D5W20L10W50L84.0
25Tony Sung Yim r/e2163AZD28W55L17W47D22L14H—3.5
26Walter Chan2150CAD36L3W49W31W30L7U—3.5
27Ethan Xie2015AZD43L33W44W56D35L3D303.5
28Felix Rudyak1956CAD25W50L42W57L4W51U—3.5
29Ashritha Eswaran1934CAH—W4W48L6D13L12D343.5
30Arvind Sankar1916CAW35W9L1D5L26D20D273.5
31Charles Tang1906CAL2W60D8L26W58W38L163.5
32WIM Ruth Inez Haring1900CAW62L54D13L4D18D36W553.5
33Michael S Ho1876CAD14W27L22W58L9W40L183.5
34Eric Alan Steger1867CAH—H—U—L53W46W39D293.5
35Igor Vladim Traub2112CAL30W36D56W43D27L22U—3.0
36Edward Li1977CAD26L35L4W44D47D32D413.0
37Brendan* Lacounte r/e1974CAW47W42L7L17D20L16D403.0
38Theodore Alexander Biyiasas1969CAD4D53W9L12D50L31D443.0
39Michael A Schemm1927WAL5L58L46B—W61L34W543.0
40Abhishek Handigol1924CAW6D5L10L3W56L33D373.0
41Nils Delmonico1922CAL11D62W18L8L52W56D363.0
42John Natha Morcos1919CAW50L37W28L7W54L13L203.0
43Nikunj C Oza1919CAD27L22W62L35D48W55L233.0
44Ojas Chinchwadkar1915CAL54H—L27L36W49W59D383.0
45Noah Dennis Fields1887WAL9L12W66W61L14H—H—3.0
46Vikram Vasan1844CAL10L19W39L14L34W60B—3.0
47Greg M Sarafian r/e1829CAL37B—D55L25D36W54L193.0
48Anirudh Seela1822CAW12D10L29L19D43H—H—3.0
49Ben Rood1698CAW19L1L26L18L44W68W603.0
50James E Jones2007CAL42L28W57W55D38L24U—2.5
51Vikram Ganesh1899CAX65H—D3H—L5L28U—2.5
52Joanna Liu1823CAH—D14D58L9W41L18U—2.5
53Farid Mark D. Watson2040CAH—D38L15W34L23U—U—2.0
54Ed Cohen2000CAW44W32L2L15L42L47L392.0
55Rodell E Mapp1989CAH—L25D47L50W60L43L322.0
56H. G. Pitre1905WAW58L11D35L27L40L41H—2.0
57Patrick Le Enrico1800CAL7L23L50L28B—H—H—2.0
58Ethan John Chamberlain1994CAL56W39D52L33L31U—U—1.5
59Andrew Roach1895UTL21W63D19L13L16L44U—1.5
60Jeffrey Wei1754CAL1L31B—D16L55L46L491.5
61Peter Gaffney1754CAW66L21L20L45L39U—U—1.0
62Hovik Manvelyan1990CAL32D41L43U—U—U—U—0.5
63Walter Lesquillier1770CAU—L59U—D64U—U—U—0.5
64Scott Cameron1433CAU—U—U—D63U—U—U—0.5
65No Player1988CAF51U—U—U—U—U—U—0.0
66Brendan A Lacounte1974CAL61L6L45U—U—U—U—0.0
67Bryon J Doyle1952UTU—U—U—U—U—U—U—0.0
68Aldrich Ong1796CAU—U—U—U—U—L49U—0.0
69Arul Viswanathan1370CAU—U—U—U—U—U—U—0.0



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