Monday Fighter! (and Lepers update)

Unfortunately, the people who made this brand of fortune cookies seem to know English, so the fortunes are more insipid than entertaining. I’ll try to do better next week.

: That fortune happened to me! I was driving around when I saw this business in a pink and purple building named “Planet Pleasure”. Curious, I went in to see what they sold, and boy was it special!

Lepers update: Polly defeated Blunderprone, so the next match is Polly vs Chessaholic to determine the winner of their division. As far as the Wahrheit-Wang match, seems Wang is missing in action, so Wahrheit wins by default. This means Ivan wins his division.

So…the final match will be winner of Polly - Chessaholic vs Ivan!

August 25th, 2008 10 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Monday Fighter!, Tournament of Lepers

Tournament of Lepers 2, hanging games

Still need the results for Wahrheit - Wang and Blunderprone - Polly (colors may be switched there, I forget them). Would like to bring this to a close soon (yes, recognized on this end that Polly’s been away in Q-bec and Dallas Open.)

August 11th, 2008 9 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers

Tournament of Lepers 2 Headache

Only one game is not reflected is Wahrheit vs. Wang, and I might have missed that result:

So there’s a four-way tie for first in the Dr. Gene Ray division. There’s not an easy way to resolve the tiebreaker either, except for…more games!

This will be a mini-playoff format. If your game isn’t played to a conclusion, just play again until you do reach one. The matchups and colors were determined randomly:

Tom vs Chessaholic
Polly vs Blunderprone

Then the winner of these two games would play, and the winner of THAT game…is the winner of the Dr. Gene Ray division.

In the Alex Chiu division, it’s much simpler. The winner of Wahrheit and Wang would still tie Ivan points-wise. But Ivan’s beaten Wahrheit, so he’d win the head-to-head matchup. But if Wang wins, since he’s beaten Ivan, he’d win the division.

And, uh, congratulations on Sciurus winning a $5 McDonald’s gift card. (Takchess is MIA with a couple forfeit losses, so I don’t think he’ll be claiming his.) If you want to claim it, I’ll get Allen to get in touch with you.

July 25th, 2008 10 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers

Blog-reduced and tournament update

I apologize for lack of updates, especially for the tournament. I’ve been busy with other things.

The next step for the tournament is the final match between the winners of the two divisions…except until all the games are finished, we won’t know who those are.

In the meantime, you can visit The Picture is Unrelated to get your kicks…disappointingly tiny, but should provide 2 or maybe 3 minutes of quality entertainment.

July 23rd, 2008 7 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Entertainment, Tournament of Lepers

Tournament of Lepers, Week 5

Apologies for the delay and no score update. I had a seizure and will complete more. Ivan, if you don’t mind, I’d rather shoot for Thursday or later this week.

July 15th, 2008 21 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers

Round 2 Review

Finally the round 2 game against Wang. You can pretty much tell this was a game between two wanna-bes, especially the gaggle of errors in the endgame. Although maybe I’ll put it down to time pressure.

MyGames_standard_20080621_wangos.pgn

July 13th, 2008 3 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers

Tournament of Lepers 2, Week 4 extended

A lot of people were on the road, or otherwise had difficulties completing games this week. So this will be a “catch-up” week, and also it saves me the time of posting a cross-table, etc.

July 6th, 2008 9 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers

Tournament of Lepers 2, Week 4

Already more than halfway through! I’m missing a handful of scores, so let me know and I’ll update (OR, I missed some that were already revealed.)

Rushing; some of your comments need responding to. Like explaining why the Wilson Gambit is relevant.

June 30th, 2008 15 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers

Tournament of Lepers 2, Week 3

Once I get the rest of the results, I’ll do the crosstable. Has drunknknite become “The Bye” of the Alex Chiu division? He hasn’t updated his blog in a while and I hadn’t heard that he played either of the first two games.

June 23rd, 2008 27 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers, Uncategorized

Tournament of Lepers 2, Week 2

I’m exhausted, so won’t post a crosstable of results (not like it’s a big deal until week 2). Chessaholic and I won, Polly and Blunderprone drew, while the other games will be played later or I have not received the results.

June 16th, 2008 18 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers, Uncategorized