Ashik vs Keyven Reise, Friday Night Marathon, Round 4

Ashik vs Neil Regan, FNM, Round 4

Ashik vs Phillip Warton, TNM, Round 8

Ashik vs Sos Hakobyan, 7th Round, TNM

Ashik vs Keyven Reise, Friday Night Marathon, Round 1

Ashik vs Murray, Tuesday Night Marathon, Round 6

Ashik vs Natalya Tsodikova, 3rd Round of Tuesday Night Marathon Summer 2015

Won Another Game Against IM Ricardo De Guzman

As I and my son Ahyan regularly play Friday Night Marathon at Fremont Norcal House of Chess, I frequently face IM Ricardo De Guzman there. I invariably loose all the time except once I won. Today won a second time. If you want to check my first win against Ricardo, here it is.

Ashik vs Jason Cruz, Friday Night Marathon at Norcal, Round 1 in July 2014

Ashik vs Nikunj Ojha, Friday Night Marathon, NorCal, June 2014, Round 1

Ashik vs NM Romulo Fuentes, Tuesday Night Marathon, June 2014, Round 3

I defeated my first strong opponent in this cycle of Tuesday Night Marathon that started last month in Mechanics Chess Institute, San Francisco. National Master Romulo Fuentes was white against me in 3rd round and so naturally I replied with Sicillian Dragon. Interestingly, we played exactly the same opening a year and half back until my 17th move where I made an improvement. That game I lost despite being a pawn up initially as Romulo is an aggressive player will sacrifice a pawn for initiative without thinking twice. It happened in this game also, but this time I defended preciously.

As a result of this game I and Natalya are jointly leading the tournament with 3 out of 3. So I know ahead of time she is going to be my next opponent!

Ashik vs Toktok, Tuesday Night Marathon, MIC, June 2014

Ashik vs Keyven Riese, Friday Night Marathon, May 2014, Round 5

Ashik vs Shafieen Ibrahim, Friday Night Marathon, Round 4

Ashik vs Coach Ted Castro, Friday Night Marathon, Round 3

Ashik vs WFM Uyanga Byambaa, Friday Night Marathon, May 2014, Round 2

Ashik vs Nelson Sowell, Charles Powell Memorial 2014, MIC, SFO, Round 2

Ashik vs Keyven Reise, Friday Night Marathon, Spring 2014, Round 5

Ashik vs Amit Sant, Friday Night Marathon, Spring 2014, Round 4

Ashik vs Anirudh Seela, Friday Night Marathon, Spring 2014, Round 1

I started playing Friday Night Marathon last weekend. In the first round I won again Anirudh Seela to whom I lost recently on the same English opening. So it was my turn this time to equal the score and the opening didn't go well for me again. I guess I am a bit vulnerable against 1.c4 . But mixing tactics and strategy I was able to come up with a very double edged, sharp position where I outplayed Anirudh slowly with a nice finishing touch.