In the 6th round, I faced another young preteen prodigy, this time with the White pieces. I didn’t know what to expect, so I decided not to let my Round 5 loss to Ashley Qian change my overall strategy. I would keep things simple and try to avoid too much intricate calculation, while building up a time advantage and waiting for opportunities to arise in the endgame, when my advantage of experience ought to be at its greatest. The only trouble with this approach, I’m starting to realize now that I’m on this side of 40, is that youngsters have more energy for long games than I do. But for this event, at least, the strategy served me very well.