My first goal is to hit 2000 elo. I have a fair bit of work to do now to achieve this because of my total ignorance in how the FIDE rating system works. If  i’d drawn my 9th game I would have gone in at 2040, as I lost it I went in at 1776. In fact if i’d realised how important the first 9 gamnes are I would have not played in FIDE rated events until I was better! This is quite a harsh... 

At move 24..Qe7 against WFM Richmond I thought I managed to make it out of the middle game ok and a whole 35 minutes up on my opponent who had only 10 minutes to make the 40 move time control (Rybka 2 even evaluates Black has a small advantage) even though the h8 rook will be tricky to activate. After she played d5 I then proceeded to flap for 30 minutes thinking about the consequences of ignoring...