When I returned from my walk to Tao Dan I did further research because I am looking for a library in which to study chess during the day and my good fortune continued because one of the best libraries in the city is located 3 blocks from my studio so I walked there with my chess set and found a table in the reading room and did 3 hours of study. When I was finishing a young man approached and asked for a game and I agreed and guessed he was a serious player when I saw he was going to notate the game so I asked him for a piece of paper so that I could do the same. He opened with 1 c4 and I replied with 1...e5, and the game was interesting, a solid opening from both sides and at move 15 I felt I was losing the thread and perhaps my b pawn but I found counter play with a bishop sacrifice which was declined and that put me up a pawn and after an exchange of queens I played the ending well enough to score the win.
The game notation -
[Site "General Science Library of Saigon"]
[Date "March 5, 2019"]
[Round "1"]
[White "N Huu Loc"]
[Black "JWW"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A20"]
[Opening "English Opening"]
[Variation "King's English"]
1.c4 e5 2.d3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.a3 Bd6 7.Be2 Be6 8.b4 O-O 9.
Bb2 a6 10.Nc3 f6 11.Rc1 Nxc3 12.Bxc3 Qe8 13.Bb2 Rd8 14.Qc2 Bf7 15.Nd2 Kh8 16.
Bf3 Bg6 17.Be4 Bxb4 18.Bxc6 Bxd2+ 19.Qxd2 bxc6 20.Qc2 Rd6 21.a4 Rxd3 22.Qxc6
Qxc6 23.Rxc6 Rb3 24.Bc1 Rc8 25.O-O Bd3 26.Rd1 Kg8 27.Bd2 Ra3 28.a5 Bb5 29.Rcc1
Rd8 30.Rxc7 Rxd2 31.Rdc1 Rd8 32.Ra7 Rxa5 33.h3 Rd7 34.Ra8+ Kf7 35.Rcc8 Ra1+
36.Kh2 Ra2 37. White Resigns
Tomorrow I will walk to the Rex Hotel and pay the $75 entry fee and round 1 starts on Thursday, March 7th, at 3:30pm.
