u/DisastrousMoment5414

Soooo...my first OTB tournament(rapid 10 +5) was 4 days ago. I guess most first tournaments are underperformances but that was just bad. I got only 3.5/9 points, and from 73 people finished 58th. I got first rating of 1491, which is low for me, I mean, I have played a friend who is 1740 rapid and won 5:3 and my online rating on chess.com is 2100, so yeah, that was rly bad tourney for me.

With that said, it was one if the best expiriances if my life. Interesting games, met very cool people. And on top of that I had 4 brilliants moves for the whole tournament-2 in one and 2 in another game.

One game, against 1550 kid I sacked my queen and then I sacked my rook for a win.

Then, against 1676 kid, which was my strongest oponent, and my best win, I sacked 2 rooks for a draw. I had a bit of a worse position so I found a draw. If he did not accept the 2 rooks I would have mated him.

I hope that I will do better next tournament.

So, this Sunday is going to be my first fide OTB tournament. The time control-10 min; +5 sec.

There are a lot of kids (10-14) and a lot of old people (40+). I want to adapt my playstyle for all of them. I already prepared for most of them by looking at their online games. I myself am 2000 rapid on chess.com. The highest rated player in the tournament is 2100 fide elo. The average elo in the tournament is about 1700 fide, which should be about 1900-1950 on chess.com.

Against kids should I play solid positional openings and middle games? And against the older players should I play far more tactical lines, that are also sharp.

Besides, I seem to be a strategical/positional player, although most players my age(17) seem to be tactical.Is it good idea to play tactical positions vs the veterans even though that?