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2nd Official Free For All Chess Tournament- Green & Gold= Champion (1 Viewer)

Green and Gold is one of a couple of people this round who will be playing black for the 3rd time. I tried to avoid this as much as possible, but there wasn't anyway to do it.

My goal is that at the end of round 6, everyone (who has played all 6 rounds) will have played 3 times as white and 3 times as black. No guarantees though. There may be the odd person who is stuck with 2 times white, 4 times black. Sorry about that.

 
Jamny (1) vs. shader (1)

timschochet2 vs.shotsup

OK, sorry about that. Jamny, you and I can continue our game for fun, but please send shader an invite for your round 4 game. I will send one to shotsup.

 
timschochet said:
Green and Gold is one of a couple of people this round who will be playing black for the 3rd time. I tried to avoid this as much as possible, but there wasn't anyway to do it.

My goal is that at the end of round 6, everyone (who has played all 6 rounds) will have played 3 times as white and 3 times as black. No guarantees though. There may be the odd person who is stuck with 2 times white, 4 times black. Sorry about that.
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Always bet on black.

 
Boom and pizza well under way. Happy to have lasted more than 3 moves before the inevitable checkmate, which will be coming soon.

 
timschochet said:
My games with Sand and Shotsup have started.
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Spent all last night with chills and fever, so this morning was not a good one.

We are now at move 16 and not a single ####### pawn off the board yet. Our board looks like LA traffic. Tim has position on me, so we'll see if I can recover. I much prefer to be black in these type games.

 
Sand said:
timschochet said:
My games with Sand and Shotsup have started.
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Spent all last night with chills and fever, so this morning was not a good one.

We are now at move 16 and not a single ####### pawn off the board yet. Our board looks like LA traffic. Tim has position on me, so we'll see if I can recover. I much prefer to be black in these type games.
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I used to think I liked to have black in tight games; then I played against Joffer.

 
Steve Tasker said:
Sand said:
timschochet said:
My games with Sand and Shotsup have started.
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Spent all last night with chills and fever, so this morning was not a good one.

We are now at move 16 and not a single ####### pawn off the board yet. Our board looks like LA traffic. Tim has position on me, so we'll see if I can recover. I much prefer to be black in these type games.
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I used to think I liked to have black in tight games; then I played against Joffer.
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In general I tend to think I am better responding than initiating attacks. Heck, in this game we are at 17 moves now and I haven't taken a single pawn. :P

 
Draw for Sand and me. Not very interesting of a game. The pawns in the center got locked up and we traded pieces. Nothing really going on.

 
Sand your last move wasn't a blunder. It just led to a draw quicker. The game was drawn anyhow unless one of us really made a very stupid mistake.

 
So at 3.5 points, I will be playing the winner of Joffer and Green & Gold next round- or, if they draw, I will play one of them (not sure which at this point.)

My record against Joffer: 3 wins, 5 losses, 5 draws.

My record against G & G: 3 wins, 6 losses, 3 draws.

Not very promising for me...

 
timschochet said:
Sand your last move wasn't a blunder. It just led to a draw quicker. The game was drawn anyhow unless one of us really made a very stupid mistake.
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Oh, it was a blunder! It just didn't cost me. Tried my best to find a way around that logjam in the middle, but really just couldn't crack anything open. Wasn't for lack of trying.

 
Sand said:
timschochet said:
Sand your last move wasn't a blunder. It just led to a draw quicker. The game was drawn anyhow unless one of us really made a very stupid mistake.
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Oh, it was a blunder! It just didn't cost me. Tried my best to find a way around that logjam in the middle, but really just couldn't crack anything open. Wasn't for lack of trying.
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Yeah it would have left me up a pawn after Qf7+ Kh7 Qxe6 IF I play Qxe3+. But I wouldn't have. I would have played Qg3+ Kh1 Qh3+ etc. Here's the problem with Qxe3+- while it puts me up a pawn, you have tremendous positional advantage, because my rook is left in the corner and there's no way I can bring it into play. You can bring YOUR rook into play and the only way to prevent that is a perpetual check on my part. No way that I can see for me to grind out a victory.

 
shotsup said:
timschochet said:
Also, Shotsup, I assume you're quitting the tourney now? If so, timschochet2 leaves with you. Otherwise, let me know.
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No I only resigned because you weren't even playing. I actually looked forward to playing you and figured I'd be dead in less then 20 moves but knight out knight in got real boring the first 5 times but I stayed with it as long as I could.
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timschochet2 is supposed to be a forfeit victory for you. I just thought it would be more fun than simply awarding the odd man out a win. Id be happy to play you for real though, I will send you an invite.
 
OK, no more timschochet2. Starting this round, one of the players with the lowest score gets a bye. This round it's Shotsup.

 
How are normal chess tournaments run in terms of time?

Can you make 1 move and then wait 12 hours before moving again?

 
Joe T said:
How are normal chess tournaments run in terms of time?

Can you make 1 move and then wait 12 hours before moving again?
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I've never run or been in an Internet tournament before, so I can't answer. In a normal tourney where you sit across the table from yr opponent, each player has to make their first 40 moves in 2 hrs or something similar. Obviously that's nothing to do with this. I have to say that overall these rounds have proceeded pretty smoothly. Round 4 just started. Give your opponent a couple days. If by Tuesday he's still taking forever let me know.

 
Joe T said:
How are normal chess tournaments run in terms of time?

Can you make 1 move and then wait 12 hours

before moving again?
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IIRC, it depends on the tourney. Some are game in 60 where each side gets 60 minutes on their clock. Most are an initial time and then more time is added after a requisite number of moves are made.
 
I guess it's just a bit frustrating when you are not sure if you are playing chess or just playing some sort of weird game of siege trying to see how long you can wait between moves.

 
Joffer vs g&g 0-1. We had another bloody king's gambit that I won because of the threat of philidor's mate followed by the threat of a back rank mate that won me material, on the heels of his bishop sac. Even then I had to defend carefully against Joffer's attack on my exposed king.

There is a theme for our king's gambit games....

 
Green and Gold said:
Joffer vs g&g 0-1. We had another bloody king's gambit that I won because of the threat of philidor's mate followed by the threat of a back rank mate that won me material, on the heels of his bishop sac. Even then I had to defend carefully against Joffer's attack on my exposed king.

There is a theme for our king's gambit games....
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I'm not very good at it, bit I do enjoy the KG and resulting wide open game.
 
offer (3) vs. Green & Gold (3) (0-1)

Sand (2.5) vs. timschochet (3) (1/2-1/2)

Brownsfan (2) vs. Psychopav (2)

Steve Tasker (2) vs. Mister CIA (2)

JoeT (2) vs. nysfl2 (2) in progress

Pizzatyme (2) vs. BoomBoom (2) (1-0)

Unialias (2) vs. wdcrop (2) in progress

Otello (1.5) vs. kutta (2) in progress

rascal (1.5) vs. witz (1)

Jamny (1) vs. shader (1)

cheese (1) vs. AcerFC (1)

Ray Karpis (1) vs. rajincajun (1) (1-0)

spOOfy (1) vs. Abraham (1) (1-0)

Bogart (.5) vs. timmypg (.5)

Please confirm that the highlighted games are in progress. Thx

 
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Psychopav and I are very much into our game. So far a hard fought battle, the outcome is up in the air. Tim I used a different opening than the one I tried against you. Seemed to work a little better.

 
Brownsfan said:
Psychopav and I are very much into our game. So far a hard fought battle, the outcome is up in the air. Tim I used a different opening than the one I tried against you. Seemed to work a little better.
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Come on, Miracle!
 
My game against Tim. Going through this I didn't see any other really good lines that kept this from getting to a draw. Anyone see another good line for white that may have cracked this open?

[Event "Playing on Chess Time"]

[site "ChessTime"]
[Date "2014.02.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sand101"]
[black "timschochet"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 f5
4. Nf3 c6
5. Bf4 Bd6
6. Bxd6 Qxd6
7. c5 Qc7
8. Ne5 Nd7
9. f4 Ng8f6
10. e3 O-O
11. Be2 Nxe5
12. f4xe5 Ne4
13. Qc2 Qe7
14. O-O Bd7
15. Nxe4 f5xe4
16. Qd2 Qg5
17. a4 Be8
18. Rxf8+ Kxf8
19. Rf1+ Kg8
20. h3 Bh5
21. Bxh5 Qxh5
22. Qf2 h6
23. g4 Qxh3 1/2-1/2

Also, good thing I got Tim the first game. In our second fun game he is hammering me relentlessly. I haven't cracked yet, but he is all over me.
 
Sand said:
My game against Tim. Going through this I didn't see any other really good lines that kept this from getting to a draw. Anyone see another good line for white that may have cracked this open?

[Event "Playing on Chess Time"]

[site "ChessTime"]
[Date "2014.02.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sand101"]
[black "timschochet"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 f5
4. Nf3 c6
5. Bf4 Bd6
6. Bxd6 Qxd6
7. c5 Qc7
8. Ne5 Nd7
9. f4 Ng8f6
10. e3 O-O
11. Be2 Nxe5
12. f4xe5 Ne4
13. Qc2 Qe7
14. O-O Bd7
15. Nxe4 f5xe4
16. Qd2 Qg5
17. a4 Be8
18. Rxf8+ Kxf8
19. Rf1+ Kg8
20. h3 Bh5
21. Bxh5 Qxh5
22. Qf2 h6
23. g4 Qxh3 1/2-1/2
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Also, good thing I got Tim the first game. In our second fun game he is hammering me relentlessly. I haven't cracked yet, but he is all over me.
I don't think I'd have pushed c5, That releases tension and doesn't really put his queen in a worse spot. I'd probably continue with e3, Bd3, and 0-0. Past that, Nd5 followed by f4 just locks up the position more. I think at that point you're headed for a draw barring one of you dropping material.

However, white did drop a pawn before the draw was agreed. I think at that point I'd have played on for a win with black, aiming to open up the a or b file and try to put pressure there. White trying to pick off the e6 pawn immediately would be a disaster, and his pawn structure is much more vulnerable in general.

Anyway, just my two cents.

 
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