Wednesday, 4 January 2012

My Real Life Experience

My real life experience1
It was april 2011, I booked a train ticket 2AC from Vijayawada to Guwahati to go home for vacation. The day for journey approached. The train was supposed to depart at 05:00 am in the morning. I thought it was 5:00 pm in the evening because while the ticket was booked, the railway ticket issuer said its evening and foolishly enough I didn't bother to have a second look. So I spent the whole day with my friends watching movies and sometimes playing chess on the internet. Just about an hour left I started packing the things and drove off to the station with two of my friends. On the way one of my friends asked me for the ticket. The ticket wasn't in my pocket, I got panicked. Searching here and there, just 20 mins for departure. Atlast the ticket was found in my diary. My experienced friend told me its in the morning, my face was red. Only now I had a second look and convinced that the train was gone.


Very disappointed, I stopped breathing for a moment, no movement of any kind, even not allowing blood circulation for a moment. That helped. My chess playing brain started activating. Anyway I reached the station and booked a wait-list ticket to be departed after two days. I opened http://indianchessfed.org/ and saw an open chess tournament to be held on 4th april 2011 in guwahati, 4th Jugal Kishore Memorial Fide rated international tournament. I called the contact number and confirm my participation. 


During this time I was still unrated though I had already played 44th national B chess Championship in Ahmedabad in 2006. The first round in the Jugal Kishore Newatia Memorial tournament, I was paired against GM Sriram Jha of LIC since it was a swiss league tournament (top seed of 1st half against top seed of 2nd half). The game was a Grundfeld Defense where the author was black. My experienced GM played the Bf4 line with subsequent Rc1 variation. Believe me when a GM played those moves, you simply gave too much weight on the strength on the moves not objectively but rather psychologically. I was a victim of 26 moves game where almost all the pieces I had was hanging. Exactly at 26 moves, I resign because I lost a rook by forced.


He congratulated me and advised me to play more tournaments. Eventually, he was the winner of that tournament. I regretted for not congratulated him but....

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