DVC Tournament Recap
Hello Chess Friends! Information About DVC This is my DVC tournament recap. The Dupage Valley Conference is a difficult and interesting national school wide competition between Naperville North, Naperville Central, Waubonsie, Neuqua Valley, and Matea Valley. Five extremely good schools. I can’t reveal the names of the talents, but Central has a FIDE Master, and he is extremely strong. He went undefeated throughout State last year, and absolutely crushed everybody, except for one who drew him(he was rated 2086 USCF however). So, this ended up not being such a great tournament for me, although I absolutely obliterated everybody else who ever faced me in the regular season of team matches, tournaments aren’t my strong suit. Especially early in the morning, where I lose focus and blunder easily. The DVC tournament is split into 8-board teams, with the first board having 13 points, second board having 12 points, and etcetera and so on. If the first board wins, then we gain ...