Christian Laverton

As the “champion” of Sør-Trøndelag (this title shouldn’t be taken too serious, since the best players of Sør-Trøndelag didn’t compete for it…) and qualified to play in the master’s class in the norwegian championship, I really had no choice but to sign up for “Landsturneringa i Bergen“. To be honest I had planned to compete anyway.

Being a pessimistic human being, I very quickly started thinking about worst case scenarios. How awful it would be to lose all my games and end up last! Luckily that didn’t happen, although all my opponents were rated 150 points or more above me. I wont bore you with the details, and only mention that I scored 3.5 out of 9 points, with a performance of 1965. This gave me a 35th place of 44. Similar to TSSK NVGP I felt I could have played better, but all in all I played solid.

The trip to Bergen was really nice. One evening I went to the pub “Naboen” together with Hallvar Gisnås. This pub has an amazing selection of beer. One type, which we of course had to try, is “The deadliest ale”. It is dedicated to the Northwestern from the series “Deadliest Catch” on Discovery Channel.

Nice beer, and really strong! 14.5% alcohol. The price, 150kr for a pint!