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Game Courier Tournament #4: An Introductory Semi-Potluck. A tournament to feature games good for introducing people to Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Joe Joyce wrote on Sat, Aug 14, 2010 10:44 PM UTC:

Lol, that's right, Carlos, pick on your poor opponents! 'I never hit a man when he's down... I kick him, 'cause it's easier!' - Rowdy Roddy Piper, professional wrestler. ;-) Let me make two observations.

These tournaments are all about blunders. It's been said that the one who loses a game of FIDE is just the one who made the last mistake. With variants, that is much truer. First, you cannot possibly know the best openings and lines in all these games, nor play them by accident. Therefore, you must be making small mistakes all the time in these games. The winner is generally the one who can overcome his own mistakes and capitalize on the opponent's mistakes the best. 

I also noticed that just about everyone else was knotted up about 3 points back. That's a tough field. And everyone who played won at least one game, indicating the potential for winning more in the future. It couldn't have been easy to kick free of that pack. I suspect the next few tournaments, at least, will be quite interesting.

Anyone else have comments on the games played?