haha I wound you up so bad its unreal, and I didn't even mean to. Don't know why you rejected my games on playchess tho

thought there would be a funny reply after that bitchtalk at the end but there wasn't

sorry for that btw (all in chess spirit imo)

obv you didn't cheat

vassil is there a reason you took the pawn instead of the rook on h1 in game one?

Nf3 might trap the queen after Be3 Kf2 Bg2

is this the site to find the games?

http://ficsgames.com/

If so, I type in celeryforty and Vassil and it says it can't find it :s

Yea queen seems to get trapped...

Dunno why I thought you were serious, jewb

Shouldn't you go to bed man? It's like 10am where r lol

or ru not gonna sleep

Jewb is a wind-up monkey.

THEY TUK ER JEWBS

Tomukas - Sholar 2:2

Terrible blunder games all 4, not even interesting to watch

Heh, so true. I was actually thinking I was playing decent blitz for once after the first two games. Then I starting inexplicably putting pieces on squares where they were obviously en prise.

Thanks for the tournament; it's been fun.

I contacted 2theleft, haven't gotten a response

GTFO LOL

lolbanter...

Anyways, thanks to BobJoeJim for organising this tourney, I look forward to the next one

Yeah being a TD is generally a thankless job.

Great job, thank you.

Did this ever happen? If not, is a draw or a forfeit the best way to score it? I want to get final standings posted.

hey he contacted me then disappeared but I think it'd be unfair to claim a forfeit.

Draw is probably best, or we just play when he turns up. I'm indifferent.

Where's the standings posted?

Sorry for the delay, I could claim I've been busy, but really I've just been lazy, lol. Here is the final score table, this is not sorted for tie-breaks, once I get that done I'll edit a sorted one into the OP. For now though, here we are (don't forget, "ELO" is the 2p2 rating, and bears no similarity to a player's actual FIDE, USCF, or FICS ratings):

Thanks.

Swiss gambit ftw!

Thanks for running it BobJoeJim!

Yay for the Swiss gambit

Second OTB tourney I ever played, I lost round 1, got a 1-point bye in the second round, won rounds 3 and 4, then beat someone rated about 400 points higher than me in the final round to finish tied for second in the under-1600 section (I was rated under 1200 at the time). Took home my class prize. It was awesome!

The final round game got published in the tourney recap article in Northwest Chess, complete with analysis from a local master. I'll never forget the phrase "Note the excellent use of pawns" from his analysis. That article was the first place I ever heard the phrase "Swiss gambit".

Anyway, you're welcome. It's fun running these, but I couldn't do it without a great group of players, so thank you for playing, and the same goes to everyone else involved as well!

Tiebreakers calculated. Here are the final standings with game scores in parenthesis: