Went down to South Jersey for a Quad there but no one was within 300 points of me unfortunately. Still, I needed the money & I had driven all that way (about two hours) so I played in the quad anyway. It's a funny thing when you're playing down you really feel pressure to "prove yourself".
My 2nd & 3rd games were sloppy (the second one I actually dropped an exchange vs. a 1550 & was lucky to draw, the third I won after my opponent missed a tactic so I won the quad but I went down rating points even though I got 2.5 of 3), the 1st one is the only one worth sharing. My opponent played very experimentally in the opening but it didn't work out so well for him.
[Event "ATKM G-30"]
[Site "Pitman"]
[Date "2010.07.15"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Norris, Tony"]
[Black "Sal"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "1938"]
[BlackElo "1480"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d6 3. c4 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. f4 Ne7 6. Nf3 b6 7. Be2 Bb7 8. Be3 Nd7 9. Qd2 Nf6 10.
d5 Qd7 11. Rd1 O-O-O 12. O-O Kb8 13. b4 c6? 14. dxe6 fxe6 15. Ng5 Nc8 16. e5 dxe5 17. fxe5 Qc7 18. exf6 Rxd2 19. fxg7 Rxd1 20. gxh8=Q Rd8 21. Qxh7 Rd7 22. Rf7 1-0
19. ... Qxg7 would've been better for black though he still would've been lost.