Thematic Tourney - Ruy Lopez: Closed
Posted on 18th Nov 07 by DoubleletterThe Tournament will have a time control of 30 30, and will begin on Monday, 19th Nov 2007.
The theme for this tourney is the Ruy Lopez: Closed; the moves shall begin with:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0
The pairings are:
| Round | White | Black | Result |
| 1 | smallblackcat | Doubleletter | ½ - ½ |
| 1 | purplepawns | maeck | ½ - ½ |
| 2 | maeck | smallblackcat | ½ - ½ |
| 2 | Doubleletter | purplepawns | 1-0 |
| 3 | Doubleletter | maeck | ½ - ½ |
| 3 | smallblackcat | purplepawns | ½ - ½ |
| 4 | Doubleletter | smallblackcat | ½ - ½ |
| 4 | maeck | purplepawns | 0-1 |
| 5 | smallblackcat | maeck | 1-0 |
| 5 | purplepawns | Doubleletter | 1-0 |
| 6 | maeck | Doubleletter | 0-1 |
| 6 | purplepawns | smallblackcat | ½ - ½ |
Results will be updated here, with a link to the individual games.
EDIT: The games will be played on FICS (freechess.org), as usual.
11 Comments
Pokrate at 09:25 on 23rd Nov 2007
Hi !
Nice initiative.
derMandarin at 17:43 on 23rd Nov 2007
This blog needs more updates!
Doubleletter at 03:34 on 25th Nov 2007
Thanks … yep, I’ll be posting some analysis as soon as I can get my lazy a$$ out of stare-at-the-screen-with-a-zany-grin mode
toomasr at 13:27 on 26th Nov 2007
Where are the games played at?
maeck at 16:26 on 26th Nov 2007
The games are played on FICS (www.freechess.org).
maeck at 21:14 on 30th Nov 2007
Perhaps we should give a prize for the first decivise game.
Doubleletter at 03:48 on 1st Dec 2007
How about 7 days usage of maeck’s ICC account ?
derMandarin at 20:26 on 4th Dec 2007
You are real friends, lol
Doubleletter at 16:23 on 6th Dec 2007
Well, if you look at the games involving me, they were quite flawed, complete swindles really. In one I was lost, then won, then drew. In another, I was winning completely, but played weakly and permitted a draw (=swindle). And once again was losing vs maeck, but managed to draw it … with even some winning chances at the end (debatable).
I assure you there’s a lot of competition amongst us … we wouldn’t be playing otherwise
Unfortunately, purplepawns is unavailable for the remaining games, so we may to have set his games to unplayed draws
HotDonut at 17:50 on 6th Dec 2007
Is there going to be any kind of compilation of the results or opening survey?
I think it’d be fun to do some work comparing the opening choices in these games to the real theory in the lines.
Doubleletter at 03:35 on 15th Dec 2007
That’s a good idea Donut, the question is … does any one of us have the energy for it ?
If you can marshall some activity, then by all means !