ChessFest (May 2016)

Revision as of 16:44, 20 February 2021

Classical two-elimination tournament

Games were 20 minutes per players on three boards.

The competition proceeded as follows, decided by random sampling from this bracket generator, with top player playing white:

Winner: Diego.

Runner-up: Jos.

Blitz Round Robin tournament

We also played a Round-Robin (that couldn't get to completiong, but almost), with results:

1. Diego: 13 victories, 1 loss (against Jos) / 14 games.
2. Fabrice: 7 victories, 6 losses / 13 games.
3. Camilo: All losses / 12 games.
4. Carlos: 2 victories, 10 losses / 12 games.
5. Jos: 4 victories, 4 losses / 8 games.
6. Javier: 6 victories, 6 losses / 12 games.
7. David: 9 victories, 4 losses / 13 games.
8. Stefan: 8 victories, 6 losses / 14 games.

Gallery

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  The buffet for between games

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  Roof-to-Plaza communication with Diego

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  Getting ready

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  Carlos

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  David

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  Julia on her own

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  Full regime

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  So many ways to blunder

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  I see where you're going

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  Letting time pass

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  Somewhere in the fifth recursion tree

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  Someone is probably thinking of something else

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  A champion losing his title

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  If you look long enough, they occasionally blink

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  Fights

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  Fights

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  and more fights

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  Julia revising the scoresheets

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  Enough chess for Julia and Jos

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  More of the same for the others

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  Orgy of chess

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  Chess until you vomit

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  2 of May celebration

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  Bad news from a referee...

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  Crepuscule

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  La Santa Cruz in its pastel evening

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  and goodbye home, almost everybody's been a loser today!