Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at 4am, finally waking/getting up by alarm at 6:30.

I took a Didi to Unicentro and due to heavy traffic arrived right at 8am. I went up to Parmessano, waited one minute for them to open, then took a seat. Jose soon joined me. We both ordered French toast but the waiter soon returned and informed us they didn’t have it today so we both ordered one of their egg casseroles:

I told Jose about my plans to play in the August chess tournament. He mentioned the Intercontinental tournament is going on right now (last time here was 7 years ago), with players from all over the Americas.

We moved to the food court. I lost the first game with the Black pieces in 40 moves and he showed me where I missed an opportunity to gain the advantage on move 23. ☹

I won the second game in 61 moves with him resigning one move before checkmate.

It was 2:30 when we said our goodbyes. I went across the street to $efecty and after a 10-minute wait in line I paid our Tigo/Une Wi-Fi bill.

Back across the street I ordered an Uber and was a little surprised that, despite the fact I was standing outside the Conquistadores entrance, it wanted me to move to the San Joaquin entrance. Traffic wasn’t too bad and he dropped me off at Viva Envigado.

I went upstairs to Pergamino café but there weren’t any seats available so I went to Sarku’s where I had my usual teriyaki chicken with a limonada de coco.

I left about 4:15 and returned to the apt by taxi.

I did a computer analysis on each of our games from today.

I drew a game against Troyclough and my rating is now 1581.

I watched another couple episodes of The Good Fight.

 

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