Gameroom Chess Tourney?

[FactionHeir]

for some reason it stopped sending me "its your turn" emails

[glyphz]

It's official that Seamus F. is my 3rd pair match.

Status: 2nd game underway. (Currently leading 1-0)
game1: http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10611817
game2: http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10732823

Wrong-footed me in the first game and gave me a stomp. Well played! I resigned to allow us to start game 2 faster -- game one had become a forgone conclusion. --SF

[CountArach]

I beat LordWinter in game 1.
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10708961

[cambovenzi]

Tevash just dropped out. You're in as his replacement. Good luck.

alright cool.
what do i do now?

[glyphz]

alright cool.
what do i do now?

Greetings, cambovenzi!
First, you should create an account here: http://www.chess.com/login.html
(since most, if not all, players use this site to play matches)

Then challenge someone in your group via the chess.com or sending a PM
(groupings are found in the 1st page of this thread. i believe you're in Grp. A)

Good luck!

[cambovenzi]

Greetings, cambovenzi!
First, you should create an account here: http://www.chess.com/login.html
(since most, if not all, players use this site to play matches)

Then challenge someone in your group via the chess.com or sending a PM
(groupings are found in the 1st page of this thread. i believe you're in Grp. A)

Good luck!

thanks.

my account is CamBovenzi (same as here)

[cambovenzi]

i beat Woad&Fangs in the 1st game, as black. (0-1)
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.htm...768164&alert=1

[Pannonian]

I got smashed by cambovenzi.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Event "Online Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2008.11.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "CamBovenzi"]
[Black "pannonian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1533"]
[BlackElo "1441"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 O-O 9. O-O-O Qc7 10. Be2 Nc6
11. Qg3 Re8 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. e5 Nd5 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. Ne4 dxe5 16. fxe5 Qb4 17. c4 Kh8 18. Nd6 Re7 19. cxd5 exd5 20. Qg5
1-0

[shlin28]

Lost both against FH

Game 1:
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10661887

Game 2:
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10798602

[FactionHeir]

You played well tho, especially the first one

[FactionHeir]

Me vs CA 1-1

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10669310
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10798613

I have no idea how I could make blunder after blunder in game 2.

[CountArach]

Me vs CA 1-1

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10669310
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10798613

I have no idea how I could make blunder after blunder in game 2.

Moves 9-12 and 14-15 were where you lost it I think. Good games.

Just so you are aware Seamus, those were our Round 4 games.

[cambovenzi]

damn i dozed off and lost to woad.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10802217

we split 1-1.

[woad&fangs]

Huzzah, I won a game!

[CountArach]

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10713461

End of my 2nd game vs LordWinter in Round 3. I won.

EDIT: I'm on 1337 points...

[FactionHeir]

Me vs Lord Winter 2-0

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10513010
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10802406

[Pannonian]

EDIT: I'm on 1337 points...

You should take a screenshot of that.

[CountArach]

You should take a screenshot of that.

Too late

[glyphz]

Too late

Not quite.
It still does say '1337' when you click on the link of said game (#285)

'Very nice'

[Martok]

Currently locked in battle with both Caius and Stephen. I just committed a rather embarrassing blunder in the latter match, so we'll see if I can recover from it or not.

[Martok]

I just received a challenge from a ST_Ghost‏. Which one of y'all is that?

[Prince Cobra]

Currently locked in battle with both Caius and Stephen. I just committed a rather embarrassing blunder in the latter match, so we'll see if I can recover from it or not.

You can make only one blunder... Apart from that the game was very good, bloody and contested... You simply had to think a bit more before moving that pawn... The catasrtophy that happened was simpy a chain reaction

The result... http://www.chess.com/echess/game.htm...794155&alert=1

Second game..coming soon

[seireikhaan]

I just received a challenge from a ST_Ghost‏. Which one of y'all is that?

That's FactionHeir.

[shlin28]

I just received a challenge from a ST_Ghost‏. Which one of y'all is that?

ST Ghost is FactionHeir

Edit: Ninja-ed again... Man this thread does not like me

[Martok]

Thanks guys. Challenge from FH has been accepted.

You can make only one blunder... Apart from that the game was very good, bloody and contested... You simply had to think a bit more before moving that pawn... The catasrtophy that happened was simpy a chain reaction

[sigh] Yeah, pretty much. I was attempting to launch a limited counter-offensive, but once again failed to pay sufficient attention to my defensive position (which was admittedly rather precarious to begin with, but I felt I had to do *something*).

[Pannonian]

You can make only one blunder... Apart from that the game was very good, bloody and contested... You simply had to think a bit more before moving that pawn... The catasrtophy that happened was simpy a chain reaction

A blunder that results in the loss of a piece without compensation will usually result in a defeat. See my second game with Ichigo for examples of minor position mistakes that result in loss of time and a weaker position, and how that builds up. See my game with Cambovenzi for examples of positional mistakes that result in loss of activity and coordination, and how that builds up. I have a game somewhere where a bog standard opening was transformed, and my entire game from thereon was centred on an undefended square on d5.

Here's the game. Note that after 8...c5, my immediate response was to swap off my black-square Bishop, which can't control the d5 square, with his Knight, which can. Once that was done, I had 2 pieces that could control that square, and he had 1, and a further exhange gave me uncontested control of that square, from which my Bishop controlled the later game.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Event "Friendly Game"]
[Site "chesshere.com"]
[Date "2007.11.27"]
[White "pannonian"]
[Black "Feliks"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1417"]
[BlackElo "1419"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bg4 5. Be3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 c6 7. Nc3
Qa5 8. O-O c5 9. Bg5 Nbd7 10. Bxf6 Nxf6 11. Nd5 O-O-O 12. Nxf6 gxf6 13.
Qxf6 Rg8 14. Bd5 Qd2 15. Rfd1 Qxc2 16. Rac1 Qxb2 17. Rb1 1-0

And here's how it might have continued. After the played moves above, the best Black can do is to obfuscate the attack with a Queen for Rook exchange (not appetising), but the below is fairly plausible if White doesn't want to lose his Queen. After 18...Rg7 defending against Qxb7 mate, the subsequent moves are forced. Note the Bishop dancing around the d5 square where it's immune from attack, and how the d6 pawn blocks in the black Bishop.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Event "Friendly Game"]
[Site "chesshere.com"]
[Date "2007.11.27"]
[White "pannonian"]
[Black "Feliks"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1406"]
[BlackElo "1431"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bg4 5. Be3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 c6 7. Nc3
Qa5 8. O-O c5 9. Bg5 Nbd7 10. Bxf6 Nxf6 11. Nd5 O-O-O 12. Nxf6 gxf6 13.
Qxf6 Rg8 14. Bd5 Qd2 15. Rfd1 Qxc2 16. Rac1 Qxb2 17. Rb1 Qe2 18. Qxf7 Rg7 19. Bxb7+ Kb8 20. Bd5+ Kc8 21. Be6+ Rd7 22. Qe8+ Kc7 23. Qb8+ Kc6 24. Bd5#

For following these games, I recommend Winboard.

[Prince Cobra]

Another short but very hot game between me and Martok. I won but Martok fighted well(except the blunders!)!

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.htm...860061&alert=1

Total: I won the both games against the Camel Lord.

[Csargo]

FH won both games

[FactionHeir]

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10805693
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10903836

[Martok]

The second match between Caius and myself has finally concluded. Wonder of wonders, I actually managed to win this one ():

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

1. e4 Nf6
2. d3 d5
3. Nc3 dxe4
4. dxe4 e5
5. Bb5+ Nfd7
6. Nf3 c6
7. Bg5 f6
8. Bh4 cxb5
9. Nxb5 g5
10. Bg3 h5
11. h4 g4
12. Nd2 Bc5
13. Nb3 O-O
14. f4 Qe8
15. fxe5 fxe5
16. a3 Nf6
17. Nxc5 Qxb5
18. b4 Nc6
19. Qd3 Qb6
20. O-O Rd8
21. Qc4+ Kg7
22. b5 Na5
23. Qc3 Nxe4
24. Qxe5+ Kg8
25. Qxe4 Qxc5+
26. Kh1 b6
27. Rae1 Bb7
28. Qg6+ Kh8
29. Be5+ Qxe5
30. Rxe5 Rg8
31. Qh6#

EDIT: We only play two matches against each opponent, correct? Or do we need to play a third game if there's a draw?