OCRCL Holiday Chess Tournament

[Culturekoi]

OH GOD OH GOD I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN ON IN LEIK A WEEK.

Seriously, I need to get some more games in, I refuse to continue sucking so bad. If you see me don't think twice about asking me for a game. Merry christmas.

[dPaladin]

Two wins against Koi.

I neglected to get move logs of either one, but the first one was really close (I had a material edge of a bishop minus two pawns) until he gave me his rook for free. It started out as a straight-out-of-the-book Sicilian game but we screwed it up really quickly.

In the second one, I did some weird Reti variation that ended up being a double fianchetto and I was thinking "God, why did I play this opening?" the entire time. I ended up getting a surprise checkmate around move 23. I actually had it set up for like two moves before that and neither of us saw it.

Great games, both of them.

[Lunahorum]

i am still trying to perfect my fast pawn promotion strategy. It involves sacrificing the queen in hopes of getting another queen with the pawn already at the other side of the board.

[Bahamut]

Bahamut wins one as black vs Dama, it was a good game, although I made one mistake. Unfortunately, Dama ran out of time so we didn't get to see how it would've ended.

[Cecilff2]

I lost vs Dama twice. Gave him two free pieces. Gonna get a decent rest before playin again.

[kamoh]

Sorry I haven't been active playing games, guys. This week has been really hectic for me, but I came out of it moved home, with two new jobs, and...well I dunno, it's just been hectic.

Any comments on my three divisions/shorter clocks plan?

[kamoh]

i am still trying to perfect my fast pawn promotion strategy. It involves sacrificing the queen in hopes of getting another queen with the pawn already at the other side of the board.

I would say a sacrifice by the other backrow pieces might be a better strategy. If you can find a way to get a queen for, say, a rook, knight, and bishop, I think that's a viable strategy. Queens are ultimately stronger than the 9 points that most people think they are worth, and two of them could probably replicate most of your back row.

[kamoh]

[eppy]

[Event "Rated game, 1m + 0s"]

[site "Private 2"]

[Date "2007.12.22"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Amir khoda 2"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "2012"]

[blackElo "1498"]

[ECO "A40"]

[PlyCount "50"]

[EventDate "2007.12.22"]

1. d4

1... a5

2. Nf3

2... g6

3. Bg5

3... Bg7

4. e3

4... f6

5. Bh4

5... h5

6. Bg3

6... g5

7. h4

7... g4

8. Nfd2

8... d6

9. Bd3

9... Nh6

10. Bg6+

10... Kf8

11. Qe2

11... Nf7

12. Qc4

12... e6

13. Nc3

13... Qe7

14. O-O-O

14... Nc6

15. Nce4

15... b6

16. Qxc6

16... Rb8

17. f3

17... Bb7

18. Qc3

18... d5

19. Nf2

19... Nd6

20. e4

20... Rh6

21. exd5

21... Bxd5

22. Be4

22... Bxe4

23. Nfxe4

23... Nxe4

24. Nxe4

24... f5

25. Ng5

25... Rd8

0-1

[Lunahorum]

2-0 kulture koi

I opened with my rooks going for a queen trap straight off the bat lol. He didn't take it. I think he almost did though lol.

good games koi

edit: I was wearing my power lens and eppy kept registering as 4500 elo. He must have been going in and out of super saiyan.

[eppy]

2-0 kulture koi

I opened with my rooks going for a queen trap straight off the bat lol. He didn't take it. I think he almost did though lol.

good games koi

edit: I was wearing my power lens and eppy kept registering as 4500 elo. He must have been going in and out of super saiyan.

Well.You can't stay super saiyan forever as you know unless you use fusion.

[dPaladin]

I lost twice to max239048293048209384223984. He does some really interesting hypermodern crap with rook pawns and weird knight stuff and all that. I failed to get move lists again, but it's all good.

Good games.

[Lunahorum]

good games

I'll have to learn some more trap openings. Opening books are for sissies.

[damathacus]

Still waiting for Falchion or Ifirit to show up. Got an alert on them for AIM, but no luck yet.

[LongeBane]

still waiting for my other loss to dama to show up.

[kamoh]

I'm not putting another loss to dama up for you.

[dPaladin]

0-2 vs. Margoute. I got punished for rushing in this game:

;Title: Yahoo! Chess Game
;White: cpt1337
;Black: margoute
;Date: Mon Dec 24 07:24:45 GMT 2007

1. g2-g3 d7-d5
2. f1-g2 e7-e5
3. b2-b3 c7-c5
4. c1-b2 b8-c6
5. g1-h3 h7-h6
6. o-o g8-f6
7. f2-f4 f8-d6
8. f4xe5 c6xe5
9. e2-e3 o-o
10. d2-d4 c5xd4
11. b2xd4 f6-h7
12. d4xe5 d6xe5
13. c2-c3 g8-h8
14. g2xd5 c8xh3
15. f1xf7 f8xf7
16. d5xf7 d8xd1+
17. g1-f2 d1-f1++

[damathacus]

Forgot to mention, I played John. He fought me to a draw in the first match, despite my slight material advantage. Game two was fast and furious, and John tore me through me. So, one draw, and one win for John.

[kamoh]

http://www.googlegamecenter.com/

Problems solved?

This is official pending a test.

[dPaladin]

I played a game with estevao on the Google thingy. It was very stable. You have to click three times to move, which annoyed me at first, but I'm over it. I think it gave Kamoh some trouble though because he ran out of time.

Their annotation system is dumb and you can't automatically save and email it like yahoo lets you do, but most of you probably won't care about that.

[Bahamut]

Dama & I just finished a game on the googlegamecenter because yahoo was being buggy with his connection, and I eeked out a loss.

[damathacus]

I give up on Falchion and Ifirit. If they wanna play, they know where to find me. Otherwise I'm done.

[eppy]

Kenjutsu Kenjutsu

[ifirit]

God, no one is ever around during the day. I'm getting really frustrated trying to find someone to play.

[Bahamut]

Kenjutsu Kenjutsu

Where the hell were you last night?