Playing Chess as a Teenager

I just wanted to play chess all the time and I was also very active in tournaments. The first non scholastic tournament I played was like seven rounds of like 90 plus 30 games it might there might even have been like extra time on move 40 like that kind of time control but I don't know what they were about. It seemed like a very official environment for me when I started out playing adult tournaments especially with slow time controls because I would get really tired too so yeah I did benefit from those kinds of long time controls. When I starting out in chess I was really bad at like you know I was I was one of the slow people like usually when beginners start out most of