<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><id>https://lichess.org/@/LaidbackStrat/blog</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/LaidbackStrat/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lichess.org/@/LaidbackStrat/blog.atom" /><title>LaidbackStrat's Blog</title><updated>2022-09-02T13:31:21.559Z</updated><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/LaidbackStrat/blog/my-experience-at-my-first-otb-classical-tournament-from-an-online-only-player/kOPpVoni</id><published>2022-09-02T13:31:21.559Z</published><updated>2022-09-02T13:31:21.559Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/LaidbackStrat/blog/my-experience-at-my-first-otb-classical-tournament-from-an-online-only-player/kOPpVoni" /><title>My experience at my first OTB Classical tournament, from an online-only player</title><category term="Chess" label="Chess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess"></category><category term="Tournament" label="Tournament" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Tournament"></category><category term="Over_the_board" label="Over the board" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Over_the_board"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; alt=&quot;Picture of the main stage&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=laidbackstrat:ublog:kOPpVoni:SsMOuV85.jpg&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=8f9c110f5dac1c45d542dbc517c5a76d7b94c299&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a long post about my first experience playing OTB seriously. I have originally posted it on reddit, but also want to share it here. It's a long post, but I leave some key points at the start if you just want the core.</content><media:thumbnail url="https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;h=550&amp;op=thumbnail&amp;path=laidbackstrat:ublog:kOPpVoni:SsMOuV85.jpg&amp;w=880&amp;sig=8f9c110f5dac1c45d542dbc517c5a76d7b94c299"></media:thumbnail><author><name>LaidbackStrat</name></author></entry></feed>