Friday, August 21

Tournament Tidings

It's been more than two weeks since the 60th GameKnot Tournament kicked off on the 3rd August. I was placed into Advanced Section's Group 31 out of a total of 194 groups (four players in each group.) That's how big the Advanced section is! My fellow contestants in Group 31 are:Churrasca (a Spaniard), Dimokritos (a Greek from Thessaloniki) and Farzane (an Iranian lady from Tehran)

Everyone plays 2 games with everyone else. The point award system is like the old soccer score system wherein a win secures 1 point and a draw is half a point to each side. Only the top scorer in this table will proceed to the 2nd round. My own expectation, just for the records, was to have two to three points : ) out of the 6 games.

Something bad happened. Dimikritos had lost on time to Churrasca in both their games, and I thought that was too easy for Churrasca as he led the table with 2 wins. Yet, soon enough, I received the easy two points too, as Dimikritos lost on time in both games with me as well. Just today he lost on time to Farzane as well. My guess is he had entered in a category too daunting for him.



My games with Churrasca are not going too well, in fact I am about to lose one game to him. A consolation is that I have managed to win a queen in one of the two games with Farzane. For the benefit of those interested in the games (they are live and also available to public) this is where u can see it all.

In any case, I will be back with more updates! Wish me luck. Salut!
Posted by 中国之星 at 10:20 PM

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