In Pursuit of Wisdom

I just have had a nice spring of tournaments at the end of 2013. First I was joint runner up in Tuesday Night Marathon Fall by defeating the then tournament leader Oleg Shakhnazarov.Then during Christmas break, I played in North American Open, Las Vegas and became sloe runner up in Under 1900 section bagging couple of thousand dollars. Here are the games I played -  Round 1 won against John Hale Round 2 won against Ronald Morris Round 3 drew a winning rook end game against George Shan Round 4 won against Faisal Kaleem Round 5 drew a lost position against Olayemi Ogungbe Round 6 won against Justin Gomez Round 7 won against Kursat Karatas As Sadiaa is visiting us from Boston, we made it a vacation plan. We first drive to Los Angeles renting a Chevy Tahoe 25th December. Saiful from San Diego joined us there. We stayed in LAX Marriott and visited Getty Institute next morning. Then we reached Bally's Las Vegas at 26th night where Zeeshan Bhai, Bhabi and their 5...