Gone to The Tournament

The pace is 90 minutes per person for all moves, without in-between time controls.
A tournament for those with a FIDE rating below 2200 and those without a FIDE rating.
Round #1: @ 1 PM, Dec 27
Round #2: @ 5 PM, Dec 27
Round #3: @ 1 PM, Dec 28
Round #4: @ 1 PM, Dec 29
Round #5: @ 5 PM, Dec 29
Round #6: @ 9 AM, Dec 30
Round #7: @ 1 PM, Dec 30

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Help needed with Chessbase and some thoughts on wins and loses

So, the day finally has come--tomorrow the tournament commences. Six years have passed by without participating in any single individual over-the-board chess event for Elo-rating...
I must admit that my opening preparation has been far from decent. My memory lets me down far too often and I don't really know when I will be able to memorize even forcing lines.. :-(
For me, opening preparation is nevertheless important in that I need to have a feeling of confidence about the types of positions. Before tournaments, I usually study several games played in this or that opening, while I am still not so experienced to know where I need to stop and say, this (or that) is a starting point for which games to be collected (and studied).
I need help in making good use of Chessbase. (I have version 9.) Unfortunately, there is nobody around to explain how a professional (or half-professional :)) creates their repertoire using this application. (So, for the time being, I only have a single database with 2 games--one for White and the other for Black (as myself)--, and there I write all the lines I play along with the games I randomly choose from larger databases. Too bad, this way both games (with dozens of variations) become harder and harder to look through, especially because _all the opening lines with the particular color are mixed up_ in them. Is there more appropriate way of creating a repertoire?
BTW, what does "add to repertoire" mean? (In CB9.)

OK, that's for now, it's too late already, 4:29 AM actually, so I gotta go to bed. I am going to take the train in the evening, for I don't like waking up early in the morning. (Actually, in the mornings at all. :))

Finally, a little bit of wisdom I don't want to fail to share with the world: :) In this tournament, there will inevitably be games that I lose because of some blunder. (During games, I recognize whether I am a better player or not than my opponent, but still I am capable of losing strategically/tactically won positions against even weaker players due to some kind of distraction, when I fail to finish off the opposition.) But this time I feel prepared for that. I am not going to be too happy with a winning position and vice versa, I am not going to be too sad when I lose it.
Thus far, I have won five games in a row (all of the games already played in the team championship), but I do know that I am still able to find the losing move even in a won position. (Yes, I am!)
The goal of this emotional preparation is to reduce expectations. The less expectations you have, the less emotions get involved in the games. With less emotions you will have more energy to concentrate on playing--not the opponent but the board. And when it doesn't happen to work, nothing's going to happen, the end of the world hasn't come yet. Next time it will be better, nobody cares what the opponent thinks of your knowledge of chess.

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5th game, 5th win

This time as White, after a very long pause, I opened with 1.d2-d4, which I like better than 1.e2-e4.

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How to take advantage of a dead bishop?

The position below arose after White's 32nd move, Kxd2. (White just took the rook.)

This is exactly the setup I had been playing for in the game yesterday, for I thought it was won because of the opponent's dead h7B.
What do you think -- is it actually won by White? I have had this played out several times by Fritz 9, both with blitz and shootout, and all of the times White won due to the spatial advantage, but I am not sure if the engines played the best possible lines.
What should White's (who has the living bishop) plan be in positions like this?

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Hajdú-Bihar County Team Ch. (Bakk vs. Törös)

Today I played OTB (over the board) as White -- for the first time in a game for Elo-rating since 2004:

Can you see how I am trying to hide the secret chess thoughts from the opponent? :) (Yes, I am the one with hands folded over the forehead.)



I must admit that neither this opponent showed much resistance.

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Another Trip to Budapest

This time I spent five days in Budapest and, of course, I made it to ongoing chess events, including a Péntek 3-kor rapid, the Round #1 of the First Saturday tournament series, and some venues of national Team Championship matches.
Arriving at a TCh venue, I was a little disappointed not to see Judit Polgár show up, whose first appearance on her new team is still to come.
I decided to enroll in a Péntek 3 rapid tournament sometime, and maybe a First Saturday as well.

During the previous years I hardly participated in tournaments, which may account for this new excitement. :)

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