The game below was played on the first round of the 2015 December Quartets I 1800+ tournament. The tournament is played at Red Hot Pawn and the first round is still in progress. I am playing in group 3, which was the first group to be decided, in other words it is the only group of the five where the person who advances to the second round is already known. The player who won our group and will get to play on the next round is called TheBigKat (2473). It was not a huge surprise because TheBigKat was clearly the strongest player of the group. I have been the lowest rated player of this group of four players all the time and I probably will be the lowest rated player to the end of the tournament. I only have one game in progress and after that is finished, this tournament will be just another memory to me. Despite being the lowest rated player of the group, I will not be on the last place in the final standings. That place is secured by joesheppe, who lost all of his games in this tournament. To be honest, I was quite certain when this tournament started that I would finish on last place, but I guess I got a bit lucky in my games against joesheppe because I won both of my games against him on time. Those two timeout wins also increased my rating nicely and after I had claimed the timeout wins, my rating had climbed to 1964! It is not only my current rating there, but it is also my peak rating at Red Hot Pawn. If I can get similar timeout wins, my rating might get over 2000... My current rating means that I am the 298th highest rated active player at Red Hot Pawn. If I could get into top ten someday, it would be really awesome, but it would require a lot stronger play from me. Those who know me, know that I would prefer to win by outplaying my opponents and not win on time, but I will take these wins too when I can get them. It is true that I was in trouble in this game and had my opponent just kept making moves, I would have most likely lost this game.
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