November 30th's Round Robin
Vexen vs. Camhed
Oddey vs. Phoetux
Blair vs. GGP!
As always, I am allocating a maximum of a fortnight to play these games, starting from the 30th of November. And again, should games fail to be played within this time, the match will be called a draw. Remember to put a link to your chess game in the Discord set up in conjunction with the OWF Discord server.
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The scores so far:
Neck and neck, even now, Oddey and Blair, each with twelve points!
Goodguyplayer, still sitting pretty in third at five points.
Vexen pulling ahead with three points (remember to thank Varrok for substituting).
Camhed and Phoeutx ever holding back at two points.
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Last fortnight's games:
Phoetux vs. Blair:
Game 1
Game 2
Game 1 features one of the first games from Phoetux without an early knight sacrifice, which might have upset Blair's mojo as Blair later misses an almost immediate checkmate sequence. Eventually, the balance is restored when Phoetux sacrifices a knight later in the game and Blair closes things up.
Game 2 features a rook sacrifice from Phoetux rather than a knight, but it appears to grant him little better, as Blair quickly makes Phoetux's life a hell from which there is no escape.
Camhed vs. Oddey:
Game 1
Game 2
Game 1 is likely the shortest game yet at just 11 moves until I move in for a rather sneaky checkmate, after MA mistakenly grabs what he thinks is a free pawn.
Game 2 is sadistically long for MA as his pieces are hunted down one by one until his king is pushed into a corner and finally checkmated.
Vexen (Varrok) vs. GGP:
Game 1
Game 2
Game 1 shows probably more queens than you could ever need at once for Vexen, graciously substituted by Varrok for this round and possibly more. GGP is caught in an unwinnable endgame and Varrok opts to play the cruelest checkmate imaginable.
Game 2, on the other hand, is oddly reminiscent of the game between Phoetux and Camhed, with bother players making a number of mistakes and eventually culminating in a draw thanks to a number of misplays from Vexen/Varrok, which GGP eventually takes full advantage of and manages to save his game.
Thank you everyone for participating in this round robin and finding time to get all your games played, this time even ahead of the deadline! Best of luck to everyone in this round robin too!