The NJSCF staff running this event do a fantastic job every year. Chief Organizer Steve Doyle always manages to give lots of prizes away before various rounds, & he'll do them in a fun matter, for example, first person to the mike with a Delaware quarter, or first person to the mike with a laptop. I was lucky enough to wear an Amateur Team shirt from a previous year & won a book on Larry Evans. There are prizes for best team name, so a lot of teams tried to do variations on the NFL DeflateGate Scandal, Bill Cosby, & other hot cultural topics.
My play entering the team event wasn't the good - I just came off a subpar performance in Baltimore where I recorded no wins in 5 games. I did a little bit of research on Old Indian & King's Indian Lines a day before the team & got an immediate opportunity to test my research out.
I forgot to mention that Black's King isn't very available & the game transitions to an ending far faster than in most games.
This was a fun experience. My team from the last few years broke up, so I got pulled onto a friend's team that needed a one-year replacement for their Board 1. I ended up doing something I have never done before - finish a multi-day tournament with no losses. I just narrowly missed a Candidate Master Norm with a draw in the last game, ending up with a score of 5 points (4 wins, 2 draws). As a team, we finished with 3 match points, & nobody finished with less than 3 individual points!
This was a fun experience. My team from the last few years broke up, so I got pulled onto a friend's team that needed a one-year replacement for their Board 1. I ended up doing something I have never done before - finish a multi-day tournament with no losses. I just narrowly missed a Candidate Master Norm with a draw in the last game, ending up with a score of 5 points (4 wins, 2 draws). As a team, we finished with 3 match points, & nobody finished with less than 3 individual points!
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