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Originally Posted by ganstaman
I was watching the game around that point, and the context certainly made it more interesting. Though I remember thinking about ...h4 instead of ...Kh7 (on my phone, forget the move number, both probably work).
Since I'm not actually sure that Kh7 DOES "work", because of Rg3, I find your h4 idea intriguing. Another possibility for black's 24th move might have been Nf6; it's what the (really low quality) chess.com analysis engine suggests. I suppose with the idea of responding to Rg3 with Ng4.
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Originally Posted by ganstaman
Now the only questions left for this round are who gets first in the first group, and whether I or HungryHippo moves on (though my game with him might not be the deciding factor, so it's not quite as exciting). How does round 2 work?
Round two will work the same as round 1, basically. Theoretically, since 8 players were supposed to advance, there should be two groups of 4 that would play double-round-robins, with the top two advancing to the third and final round. Because of the unbroken tie in group 4, I guess there are now 9 players advancing, so one of the two groups in round 2 will have 5 players instead of 4. And I suppose that introduces the possibility that if there are any such ties in round two, that more than the expecte four players could advance to the final round as well...
Unless you were actually asking how it decides who goes to which of the two groups in round 2, in which case I have no idea, lol.