Chess Tournament 2025- Black Crowes and Nick Vermeil co-champions! (2 Viewers)

[Zow]

BlackCrowes and Woz agreed to a draw. Pretty much even going into an end game. And, I got some whisky to drink and birdies to make. Barring a blunder it’s a likely draw and I don’t trust not sober me to not do that. I didn’t want to then play super aggressive and sac to get a pawn break and lose the tournament t for Nick.

Congrats to Nick and BlackCrowes.

 

[Nick Vermeil]

BlackCrowes and Woz agreed to a draw. Pretty much even going into an end game. And, I got some whisky to drink and birdies to make. Barring a blunder it’s a likely draw and I don’t trust not sober me to not do that. I didn’t want to then play super aggressive and sac to get a pawn break and lose the tournament t for Nick.

Congrats to Nick and BlackCrowes.

BlackCrowes beat me fairly handily, so….

 

[Psychopav]

I feel like some aren't taking my game with AABatteries with the seriousness it deserves. A 7th place tie hangs in the balance here, people.

 

[Chaz McNulty]

Chaz McNulty beat Captain Cranks.
He was the superior player and was up a pawn and had a good attack going. Then he hung his knight. I just had to make solid moves the rest of the way.

 

[timschochet]

When all the results for round 6 are in I will post final standings. But for now congratulations to @BlackCrowes and @Nick Vermeil, co-champs with 5 points each. Outstanding effort!

 

[timschochet]

Well try to do this again in a few months. With this many players interested there’s no need to wait IMO.

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Well try to do this again in a few months. With this many players interested there’s no need to wait IMO.

Thanks for running, as always.

 

[Dezbelief]

But really, aren’t we all winners in this friendly tournament?

(Says the four loss guy)

Everyone won a game.

 

[scoobus]

Thanks for running!

Congrats to BlackCrowes and Nick Vermeil!

 

[Sand]

Murph and I are still going. Should finish up fairly soon.

 

[Murph]

Sand beats Murph. 0-1

 

[Sand]

Sand beats Murph. 0-1

Good game barring one blunder. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

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On a general note - thanks Tim for putting this on. Great fun. I'm kind of stunned I ended up with 4 pts. here, only losing to Zow and BlackCrowes (who are both worlds better than me). The game with @Juxtatarot will stick with me for a while. Devilishly difficult position we ended up in and I can't remember thinking harder about a game.

 

[Zow]

Thanks as always, Tim.

Amazing competition this year.

 

[Murph]

Thanks Tim for organizing and a tip of my cap to our co-champs

 

[timschochet]

5 points
@BlackCrowes
@Nick Vermeil

4.5 points
@Zow

4 points
@Chaz McNulty
@Sand
timschochet

Congratulations to everyone in these upper tiers as you should consider you had a successful tournament. 4 points or higher in a 6 round tournament is not an easy score to achieve.

 

[titusbramble]

Not related to the tournament, but related to the game, Magnus Carlsen was on Joe Rogan yesterday if you didn't see it, was a truly fascinating listen

 

[nysfl2]

Juxtatarot defeats NYSFL in a long, drawn out defensive battle which eventually came down to me not being able to attack anything because of his two ********ed knights protecting everything.

 

[ragincajun]

Ragincajun narrowly pulls out the W over Shuke in a battle that will be talked about for ages.

 

[timschochet]

One more game left in the tournament:
@Psychopav vs @AAABatteries

 

[Psychopav]

One more game left in the tournament:
@Psychopav vs @AAABatteries

We're still working through it. Heading very quickly toward endgame so I would guess we will be done today, tomorrow at the latest.

 

[AAABatteries]

One more game left in the tournament:
@Psychopav vs @AAABatteries

We're still working through it. Heading very quickly toward endgame so I would guess we will be done today, tomorrow at the latest.

I drunkenly gave up a minor piece so having to fight my way back and it’s not looking good.

 

[Psychopav]

Sorry Tim @AAABatteries and I are still plugging away but not quite done yet. We're pretty close to, if not quite in, end game.

 

[Psychopav]

AAA resigned as I am up a piece and it was a matter of time.

Thanks Tim let's do this again soon!

 

[timschochet]

Final scores are listed in the OP. Congrats to all and we’ll do this again in a couple of months.

 

[Psychopav]

I feel like some aren't taking my game with AABatteries with the seriousness it deserves. A 7th place tie hangs in the balance here, people.

I feel like my inability to count to 8 here does better at explaining my 8th place finish in this tournament than words ever could.