Round 2 brought my first (and probably only) wins in the tournament. We played these games on Yahoo, which worked out well. (Not only does is keep time and record the game, but it also prevents me from making an illegal move, like moving into check.) I was White in the first game. Computer analysis questions almost every move on both sides, but I managed to go up a couple of pawns only to soon gave them back trying to simplify into an ending with strong central pawns. I didn’t go about it the best way, but the position shown is still winning with a nice passed pawn. Unfortunately, I goofed with e4, giving Black a chance to equalize with Ra3+, but he missed it, too, and I survived.
In the second game, I got off to an comfortable lead by winning a pawn and the exchange (my bishop for his rook), but I panicked a little in the given position. I suddenly saw the mate threat with bishop at h6 and queen at g7. The only way out I could see was to give back the exchange by Re6 (my rook for his knight). Turns out I had time to take the knight with the pawn and still meet Bh6 with Bf8. For some reason, he didn’t take the rook, though I still would have been up three pawns. I was eventually able to simplify the position and use my material advantage to win.
In the Round 1 notes, I mentioned I was working on using a JavaScript game viewer. LT-PGN-VIEWER looked promising, but I decided it wasn’t as good as the older Java applet. So the round 1 games are now available with the Java applet viewer: Game 1, Game 2.