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September 5, 2011

My experience at the Denker was interesting. Even though I only won two out of six games, I had a great time in Florida. It could have been better but the hotel was in the airport... ya, it sucked there.

My first game was very intresting. I messed up in the opening, losing a pawn, and seeing as he was a 2200 he clearly took that advantage very quickly. My second round ended quickly. My third round was a pretty good game. I thought in my fourth round I could have won, but I lost trying to flag him at 1 second, then he had a mate in a few moves. My fifth round was my most upsetting round. I had a compleatly losing opening and then a winning endgame, and then blew it. My sixth round was kinda boring.

Josh Haley