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Originally Posted by wlrs
Aaaand we have a champion..... *drumroll* Congrats to Sholar!
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by coon74
How did that 'fish' (who blundered a rook in a silly way in round 1) manage to win the tourney?
Haha, yeah, that was painful. Also in round 2, with
this game where I'm losing in the final (pre-repetition) position. I have no idea what I was doing there, just letting my queen wander and get trapped.
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Originally Posted by wlrs
I thought I was doing well in my Black game vs. Sholar (though it might have just been a pretty looking equal position) until I forgot to include 31.-Bxa1 32.Rxa1 and instead played 31.-dxe2 straight away. boo @ me for regularly doing that in corr games.
Yeah, I think by the end it was an equal position and the main danger had passed for me, but still complicated.
In the final round, especially, I was trying to play for more complicated positions (was inspired by a discussion, probably with Tex, YKW and wlrs, that basically amounted to: it's hard to beat stronger players with risk-free chess), and really got outplayed in that middle game there, and also by
DaMaGor (again, following a good opening, I thought--a draw there ended the tournament).
I was pretty happy with my
other game against you, first time in that opening for me, although I let another big opening edge slip there, too, and needed some luck to hold the draw.
Really enjoyed all of the games, so thanks to Noir_Desir for organizing. It's a bit of a joke that I've won this twice now, but as long as wlrs keeps forgetting that bishops can take rooks I still have a chance :-).