London here as well

Still trying to coordinate with hoyasaxa, we had agreed for 7PM EST but I completely forgot and only got home at 7:45. Hopefully we can get this in tonight

no worries! im waiting foryou on fics if you see this, sn hoyasaxa

rbelous 4 - 0 hoyasaxa, all fun tactical games that could have gone either way

Adjudicated results of unplayed matches:
loveinvain 0.5 - 0.5 2theleft
RolldUp Trips 0.5 - 0.5 Sholar
Person 0 - 1 Cadaz

This is Person's second consecutive forfeit, so for all intents and purposes I am removing him from the tournament. However that would give us an uneven number of players, and result in a full point bye for someone. Therefore the person who would otherwise receive the bye will be listed here as being paired with Person. This round that is hoyasaxa. Hoya, you have a choice. You may choose to make no effort to contact Person, in which case you will receive the full point even if he shows up and contacts you. OR you may choose to attempt to play the match, in which case you will receive whatever score you earn OTB if you manage to contact him and play. If any piece of that is unclear, feel free to ask me for clarification.

Round 4 Pairings:


Good luck everyone!

HipHopRTR, prepare to be @ your computer for 24 hours a day this upcoming week. Else I feel sorry for you :O

As it is now, are we playing 5 rounds? Any interest in making it 6?

Is he higher rated than I?

Jk, ill shoot him a pm and if he responds we'll play, if not f it

LOL banter

It is five rounds, since that's what I originally said it would be for a field this size. The bad news if you want to play more is that I'm not going to change things now and add another round. The good news is that when this tourney ends I will organize the 2+2 Chess Open VI

I don't know yet if I'll do a swiss or knockout format, but due to the volume of requests for longer games, the time controls will probably be something like G/15 (single games, not 4 game matches).

was this really necessary?

Also for HipHopRTR let me know when is a good time for you this week. I suggest during the afternoon Eastern time. List 3 times you're available to play and ill tell u which ones work for me

I'm online now ...

PM on its way ...

Tomukas - Gullanian 4-0.

Thanks for the TD and opp to make it possible to play at the beginning of the week

Was outclassed in every way and took a very embarrassing loss in one of the games But all good fun

Thanks for running such a great tournament

2.5-1.5 against 2theleft.
Bit of an up & down game, with mistakes being costly for both players.

http://ficsgames.com/cgi-bin/show.cg...16;action=show
http://ficsgames.com/cgi-bin/show.cg...86;action=show
http://ficsgames.com/cgi-bin/show.cg...28;action=show
http://ficsgames.com/cgi-bin/show.cg...96;action=show

Big Thankyou to BobJoeJim for running the tourney!

yeah good game, very easy to set up a match with hiphopRTR. good luck in the next round

All this talk about 5 rounds, 6 rounds & the next tourney made me think this one was finished ... obviously I now realise there is another round to go.
Thanks still stands, but bring on round 5! :P

Sholar 2-2 DONCASTI

BJJ: prob.game 4 is not in the database; its was adjourned (because of disconnection problems) in a lost position, so i decided to resign anyway, but it was played (for rating issues).

Thanks for the heads up, DON

It was a good match. White won all four games (although I can't really blame my opening choices on dropping rooks on move 32, as much as I would like to).

I also want to thank Don for his understanding -- my internet was the one which went down toward the end of the fourth game. I was heartened to see an absence of angry posts/messages when I was able to get back online (days later).

(By the way, I believe that one can resign adjourned games on FICS using the "resign opponent_name" command.)

I'm set to play rbelous on Sunday fyi

jewbinson (celeryforty) - ganstaman: 3 - 1

I'll post the games with some thoughts in a while. Overall thoughts: Iron Maiden is better than Melanie Fiona for handling high-pressure situations.

lol who is Melanie Fiona...

Brag: got ganstaman to listen to Iron Maiden

Haha, I figured that would be the response. Here's an acoustic version, even though I had the radio version on loop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrTcEMc-Dc

Also, I said I would list to Iron Maiden only if I lost games 2 and 3, but since I won game 3, I still haven't heard any of their music (at least not that I know of).

They're awesome, they're new album is simply amazing and very deep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxogb8Wz8w

Here's a classic also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOVzXYEU3Bk&ob=av3e

I don't really like R&B unless I'm in the mood to really chill, and even then I listen to IM anyway. But the singer is really talented and it's quite relaxing, will give it a go