Chess

[Jkaen]

Due to various other tourneys and team games starting at the same time I havent been as focussed on this one as I did last round, and I think its shown, I dont think I even raised a challenge before Gustaran blew me away twice

[regoarrarr]

Upset with my extremely high blunder rate but some interesting games at least.

Yeah, you giving away a full rook against regoarrarr made me wonder what's going on... and I actually counted on you to get at least one draw against pindicator. Now I had to play some crazy gambit because I need to get a full point if I want to win the tournament for sure (pindicator vs waterbat is still being played though, go waterbat! )

And sorry that I blundered away my position against Pindicator too....

[uberfish]

Actually pindicator bribed us to let him win

Seriously that endgame was annoying because I thought I'd completely outplayed Rego up until Rc2??

[regoarrarr]

Actually pindicator bribed us to let him win

Seriously that endgame was annoying because I thought I'd completely outplayed Rego up until Rc2??

Yeah you played really well. I was hoping to just hang on for a draw but a pawn down to a better player I wasn't holding my breath...

[pindicator]

Hey, don't count out jkaen either. He's up the exchange in our game

[Gustaran]

Actually pindicator bribed us to let him win

And sorry that I blundered away my position against Pindicator too....

Well, a draw against pindicator is still a very good result though I guess you already know that your position was totally winning...Still, 1/2 a point against pindicator is now sufficient for me as long as I manage to beat Yuri in my last game.

Hey, don't count out jkaen either. He's up the exchange in our game

1. It's probably not a secret if I mention that your passed pawn on a3 provides ample compensation.

2. I don't trust Jkaen , I feel he is the "Ivanchuk" of Realms Beyond.
He has a chess mentor rating of 1900+ (higher than mine) and is capable of playing 40 moves of great chess. Unfortunately, on move 41 the next round of one of his other tournaments starts which adds 10+ games to his schedule and he ends up doing things like self-trapping his queen...

[yuris125]

Well, a draw against pindicator is still a very good result though I guess you already know that your position was totally winning...Still, 1/2 a point against pindicator is now sufficient for me as long as I manage to beat Yuri in my last game.

Not a given :P

[yuris125]

I think I was in ok shape in our game until I missed the fork. Maybe I don't miss anything this time

[Gustaran]

I think I was in ok shape in our game until I missed the fork. Maybe I don't miss anything this time

Absolutely, the position was very balanced. If neither of us misses any cheap tactics we might draw this one.

[Sian]

sitting at looking at some of the finished games ... don't quite see why the pin/reg is a draw ...