Just a quick note to say that I played in a tournament in the Chicago area this past weekend, and emerged successfully, winning clear first with a 4-0 score. I was the second seed, behind IM Florin Felecan, and while it would have been more interesting had we played, the tournament was too short. In the last round there were four players with 3-0 scores, and the pairings were FM Albert Chow vs. Felecan and yours truly vs. FM Aleksanda Stamnov. I pulled out the win in a tough game, while Chow and Felecan had a crazy game - or at least a crazy end of the game - that finished when in terrible, mutual time trouble they agreed to a draw.