Vancouver Open: How I lost 80 rating points

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Vancouver Open was an epic fail for me. I came in with hopes of winning it, as I was seeded 6th with a rating of 1671. However, it went horribly. I managed to win my first game, but even that was lucky.

In my second game, I played horribly and got a draw in a pawn-down rook ending.

And I lost my last three games, and in the last round lost 2 pawns in 7 moves.  My final score was 1.5/5, and I will loose about 80 rating points.

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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