Day one of the Seattle Fall Open

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It's 9:30 in the morning on September 20th, the second day of the Seattle Fall Open! In one and a half hours my next round will start, but for now I would like to share my first three rounds of the event.

I played in the reserve section,U1700 and I was very hyper before the first round, shouting lots of nonsense, but having a lot of fun nonetheless. Some of my chess "buddies" included the two Andy's (my favorite Andy Tien and also the Andy Huang is very fun), Vignesh Anand, and some other chess players.

Me and the Tien siblings (Andy and Sophie), like always, had an argument over what is the best move in the Guicco Piano after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6. I like d3, but they like d4.

In the first round I had to play Andy Huang, mentioned earlier. I would post the games now but my school IPad won't let me do that. Either way, too bad for him, he was a slightly worse endgames player than me and ended up loosing in some drawn positions. I hope to post the game soon.

In round two I played August Piper and had a fairly easy game after he got doubled pawns. I won that, and was pretty happy to get a 2-0 start

Meanwhile,even more interesting than the games were what happened inbetween. But since saying what happened would make me seem very childish, I won't mention all of the teasing that went on.

I drew Kerry Van Zeen in Round 3.

I'll try to post the games later, and so far it has been a great event ( Of course it could be awful depending what I play mediocre or terrible compared to my rating) can't wait for Round 4, in just 70 minutes! Hope to see you there if you are there!

Currently I have 2.5/3, and two people have 3/3 so I probably can't get first.

But at least I will try.

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Joseph Truelson

United States

Hi everyone! This is a (mostly inactive) blog that mostly covers my over the board tournament games. 

For those confused about RAR, the RAR movement is a rising phenomenon that is mentioned in many blogs. Don’t take it to have a definite definition, but RAR has something to do with being unethical (cheating and intimidating) or just plain lucky. 

Here is a list of my tournament blogs:

2015

Vancouver Open 

SCC Tornado

Seattle Fall Open: Day 1 

Seattle Fall Open: Day 2 

SCC September Tornado 

Mukilteo Free Rapid Quads 1

Mukilteo Free Rapid Quads 2 

2015 Northwest Chess Open  

Washington G/60 Championship Day 1 

Washington G/60 Championship Day 2 

KingCo Leauge Round 2 

KingCo League Round 5 

KingCo Leauge Round 6 

KingCo League Round 7 

KingCo League Round 8 

KingCo League Round 9 

2016

Seattle City Championship Day 1 

Seattle City Championship Round 4 

Washington Junior Open 2016

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 1

FIDE Junior Invitational Rounds 2-4

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 5

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 6

FIDE Junior Invitational Round 7

Clark Harmon Memorial Rounds 1-2

Clark Harmon Memorial Round 3 

Clark Harmon Memorial Round 5

Washington Open Scholastic

Washington Open Round 1 

SCC July Quads Round 1

SCC July Quads Rounds 2-3

SCC July Tornado Rounds 1-2

SCC July Tornado Rounds 3

SCC July Tornado Round 4

Seafair Open Round 1

Seafair Open Round 2 

Seafair Open Rounds 3-5

FIDE Invitational Round 1

FIDE Invitational Rounds 2-3

FIDE Invitational Round 4

FIDE Invitational Round 5

FIDE Inviational Rounds 6-7

FIDE Invitational Round 8

FIDE Invitational Round 9

SCC September Tornado Round 1

SCC September Tornado Round 2

SCC September Tornado Round 3

SCC September Tornado Round 4

Challengers Cup Round 1

Challengers Cup Round 2

Challengers Cup Round 3

Challengers Cup Round 4

Challengers Cup Round 5

SCC Extravaganza Round 1

SCC Extravaganza Rounds 2-7

Washington Class Scholastic

 2017

Washington Junior Open Rounds 1-3 

Washington Junior Open Round 4

Washington Open Scholastic 

Washington Open Rounds 1-3

Washington Open Rounds 4-5

Washington Open Round 6

SCC July Tornado 

Seattle Chess Classic Round 1

Seattle Chess Classic Rounds 2-3

Seattle Chess Classic Rounds 4-5 

2024

1st Concord Open

The RAR match against Samuel Deng!

Introduction

Exclusive Interview with RookSacrifice Part 1

Exclusive Interview with RookSacrifice Part 2

"Unbiased" Statistics

NEW SERIES: Falling Stars 

Falling Stars #1: Chesster3145 

Falling Stars #2: EOGuel

And of course, my "famous" essay extoling the virtues of cheating:

You should cheat! A RAR Research Paper