FC Chess Tournament 5 (Completed)

[GMantis]

I would like to participate as well.

[GMantis]

My account name is gmantis and here is the link to the game.

[GMantis]

Gmantis won

This was a nice game, though unfortunately marred by some early mistakes by X.

Incidentally, is this a single game round-robin or do all players play each others twice?

[GMantis]

Congratulations to Homely. I resigned the game after a critical error.

Quite unusual to see a knight and bishop mate and even more rarely as early as this.

[GMantis]

Sorry for the long delay, here is the link to my game with Homely.

[GMantis]

I've sent a challenge to Franzl here.

[GMantis]

Unsurprisingly, gmantis has defeated me...

Thanks for an interesting game. But "unsurprisingly" is perhaps is a bit too strong. You did find in the end a defense which prevented a direct mating attack (excluding the last move, of course) and would have forced me into a slower endgame. And I have some unpleasant memories from end-games that were supposed to be won, but didn't quite end up this way...

[GMantis]

I wonder, Franzl, if you might have had a chance to have a strong endgame yourself on move 17.  Instead of 17. Qa5, where the threat on c7 is easy for Black to parry, maybe 17. Qb4 is better, as now if Black plays 17...Rc8 then 18. Rxc8+ Qc8 19. Bb2 and it looks to me like Black's isolated d-pawn is lost.  If Black doesn't go in for that line, then he is just passive and still has to defend the weak pawns on d4 and b7.  They both make for nice targets.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that 19...Qc2 refutes this line, since it threatens both bishops with a similar attack as the one that happened in the game.

[GMantis]

I didn't get the chance to say this earlier but congratulations to gmantis for a great game against me

I should thank you for being a worthy opponent in arguably my best game in this tournament