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Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I think beating Jeffrey helped me get back in the groove.There's another story to tell about this tournament, though it involved me only incidentally. There was no way the tournament could have gone on; I'm not sure Microsoft (the event venue) was even open. WA State Championship 2019. I was not quite late yet.He took me into familiar-looking territory--I caught a glimpse of the B line, my usual route to Microsoft--and then crossed a highway into an area where the snow was still piled up in deep drifts, and told me this was my stop. I don't know if that explains this game or not.So that was 2.5/7, or if you prefer, 0/4 and 2.5/3 on the two weekends. and was eventually rescinded at the last moment. But I couldn't determine that from my stop and didn't want to waste more time. Was I ever going to find it, anyway? Want to really understand why our 10+ days of snow, ice and record cold weather in early February 2019 was so unusual? This blog mainly covers my tournaments, with occasional forays into other topics. Seriously, you’d think nobody in this town had ever experienced snow before. Grocery store shelves empty, traffic snarls, icy roads, helping cars stuck in the snow – we might not be able to leave the house for a while as no roads at ALL got plowed in my city of Woodinville. Photo courtesy of Ani Borua. Seattle, Woodinville, and Kirkland aren’t really equipped to deal with snow – they don’t have snowplows, they don’t salt the roads, which tend towards curves and hills, even main thoroughfares remain treacherous and covered with ice in our hilly area of Woodinville/Kirkland. Seriously, you’d think nobody in this town had ever experienced snow before. I avoided my error of the previous game, but forgot my preparation and got into trouble.
It may not be cold enough yet, but as I … This is not a good opening for improvisation: like the Najdorf or some lines of the Spanish, all the reasonable moves have been tried and found wanting, so you have to know your unreasonable moves.I will sack pieces at the drop of a hat, and I don't mind giving a pawn here and there, but I don't tend to see exchange sacrifices. © 2017 Seattle Weather Blog February 2019: Seattle’s snowiest month in 50 years While I think these particular penalties were, sadly, appropriate, I also think we'd be better off not allowing things to get to such a level in the first place. Last weekend it snowed five inches here – and never melted. Scenes captured by our staff in and around Seattle as snow began falling around noon on February 8, 2019. Other shops and businesses closing as early as 2 p.m., and a variety of events cancelled.
I knew I had only an hour before I forfeited--not just the first round, but the entire tournament, as we'd been warned that any forfeit meant removal.I arrived thirty-six minutes late, apologized to my opponent, and sat down to play--exhausted, cold, and completely overstressed. Other shops and businesses closing as early as 2 p.m., and a variety of events cancelled. This touched off an email firestorm (snowstorm?)
28 years ago,... I didn't feel hopeful, though.Even for a tournament that had not been going at all well for me, this was a new low. Urban legend has it that any time there’s a major event (weather-related or otherwise) that keeps people indoors, a spike in pregnancies is the result. They are offering a "Snowpocalypse Survivor 2019" T-shirt for free, though customers will have to pay the $5.99 shipping fee. As a result, what would be a modest storm elsewhere is paralyzing here. This meant I would have a last-round bye, which is why I'm not in the group picture above--I decided not to spend the whole afternoon at Microsoft just to get a picture taken. Seriously, we have no temperatures above freezing on the forecast for a week and more! Since I’ve last written, winter has appeared – with a vengeance – in Seattle. Despite not knowing where I was, I almost duplicated the blue route shown above. I had watched anxiously for over a month to see if I would even get in, as my rating was near its low-water mark and the competition looked very stiff. I don't think I have ever seen such persistent snow in Seattle before. I was also, as it turns out, playing the eventual winner of the event, Brandon Jiang, shown front right in the photo below.Well, okay. People were sledding down the hills in our complex’s parking lot, and several trees came […]Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
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