I won the Iowa State Championship for the fourth time this past weekend. It was a very challenging event and I was lucky in both instances where I drew to escape without a loss. In the first round, I played listlessly against Weiss and missed a few ideas (for both myself AND him) which nearly cost me, but I finally found the appropriate resource and saved the game. Against Keating I allowed a tactic thinking I would win material, only to discover he had a saving move. Down two pawns, I should have lost, but found a setup that was just frustrating enough to hold the half point. My best game was probably against Jim Hodina, where I found a nice pawn sac to open the position and finish the game, or againt Tim McEntee, where I played a complex English. Tim wasn't on his game the whole tournament, though, but he did play well against me in round 5.
The numbers:
New Rating: 2264
Games Played: 287
Games left: 13
This last stretch is reallllyyy going slow, it seems. I will miss Okoboji this weekend, too, so that pushes my next tournament all the way into May. Wow.
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- NM Petros Karagianis
- I started playing tournament chess in 1988. My first chess teacher was my father, James Karagianis, and then I took lessons from Carmine Nigro. I obtained my expert rating in 2003, and National Master title in 2005, and Life Master in 2010. I am also a professional chess coach, and make my living coaching over 200 kids a week in 13 different schools. I give individual lessons, and all of my students who have studied with me for more than one year are in the top 100 for their age group, if not top 50 or higher. I am as equally proud of my accomplishments as a coach as I am of my accomplishments as a player.
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