New USCF rating

Well Folks,

USCF made it official. The new rating is 1090. If it was not for dumb luck on both the part of my opponent and myself for seeing a finish I would have lost the match. Now I have another tournament to look forward too. the U1200 G/75 in North Seattle on 11 May 08.

I already have my answer for White. That is stick with the Torre Attack. For Black I am going to solidify, a bit more, my knowledge regarding the Caro Kann and Dutch Defence. I did not like getting creamed.

Regarding the Caro-Kann, my plan is to put a bit more effort into all the variations I lost too. Those being the Classical, Advance and the Exchange. As Steve wrote in his blog the Exchange variation is candy and I really want to thank him for providing the idea of puttingit into a Queen's Pawn Game with the KID. That was an excellent idea. For the Advance I picked up the idea of 3...c5. For the Classical I intend to do my best with keeping things static.

On the Dutch... I don't have a clue as of yet but I will be refreshing myself with the information I have and the correspondence matches I'm currently playing. The Leningrad Variation is rather adventurous and playable.

Well, that's it for my plans.