Atlas Chess Tournament - Congratulations, General MacArthur!

[NewYorkExpress]

Still waiting on Hamilton's challenge...

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Sorry, kind of been busy for most of the last couple days. I'll tell Hamilton to accept your challenge on AAD.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Updated bracket. JH has still not agreed to my challenge despite agreeing to a rematch after my connection crashed.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

I accepted Falter's challenge.

[GeneralMacArthur]

I won my game, once again my opponent failed to move within 3 days.

Whoever's playing me next please challenge me.

[NewYorkExpress]

STILL waiting on Napoleon's challenge.

Can we disqualify him and advance me?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

jdb has made an account and is currently up against Hockey Dude. Jackson Hitchcock has yet to respond to my second challenge request and if he doesn't before the invite goes away, I'm calling a forfeit.

Here is Hamilton's account.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I'm giving Jackson Hitchcock 48 hours to respond to my challenge or else I'm advancing to the next round. He's been PMed multiple times now.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

resigned against falter lol

[NewYorkExpress]

It's been almost two days and Hamilton has yet to respond to my challenge.

Please disqualify him forthwith.

[Left Wing]

Koopa has resigned.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

It's been almost two days and Hamilton has yet to respond to my challenge.

Please disqualify him forthwith.

He's pretty active on AAD. I'll give him one more chance to respond and if he doesn't, I'll just advance you to the next round.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Koopa resigns:

[NewYorkExpress]

It's been almost two days and Hamilton has yet to respond to my challenge.

Please disqualify him forthwith.

He's pretty active on AAD. I'll give him one more chance to respond and if he doesn't, I'll just advance you to the next round.

Game with Hamilton FINALLY started.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Sev forfeits due to time. minionofmidas advances to the second round against MalaspinaGold.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Oh right, this is a thing; completely forgot.  My bad

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

It's been 48 hours and Jackson Hitchcock has not responded. He automatically forfeits.

[Senator Incitatus]

I have missed the tournament but if you'd ever like to play me, here is my account: https://www.chess.com/member/chatpac

I prefer to play 30m games.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

GMA defeats oakvale by resignation, advancing him to the semi-final.

[GeneralMacArthur]

In response to some questioning by Scott on the AAD thread, an analysis of the ending of the oakvale game:

32. Rb5 Rxb5
33. axb5

Three plans for Black, all fail:

Push the a-pawn:
33...a4? 34. b6 a3 35. Kc1 and the White K stops the a-pawn while the Black K cannot stop the b-pawn.

Blockade the b-pawn with the king:
33...Ke6 34. Kd3 Kd6 35. Kc4 Kc7 36. Kc5 with b6+ and Kb5 coming, White eats the a- and b-pawns and wins with the c-pawn.

Use the a-pawn as a distraction to get the b-pawn:
33...Ke6 34. Kd3 a4 35. Kc4 a3 36. Kb3 Kd6 37. c3 bxc3 38. Kxa3 Kc5 39. Kb3 Kxb5 40. Kxc3 and White can easily turn the e-pawn into a passer by getting the K to d3 and playing g3+f4.

this is probably the best try because White could still fall for 35. Kxb4 a2 and Black wins, and White could screw up the K+P endgame after the exchanges on f4 (e.g. exf4 gxf4 gxf4 Kxf4 Kd7 Ke5? Ke7 with the opposition, although White can still use the untouched h-pawn to pass the move to Black)

Alternatively, when Black's king goes to the 7th rank, White can also play f4 exf4 e5 and win because the b/e pawns are separated by 2+ columns and their square includes the 8th rank, meaning they can promote on their own without the K stopping them.


At any rate, though, Black was busted after being unable to get into my camp with his rooks.  IMO the best try was bxa4 instead of b4 and trying to get in either Rb4-xa4 or Rb2-xg2.  I don't think either was possible (some combination of Ra1-a2 + c3) but those were the lines that I was most worried about.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

In response to some questioning by Scott on the AAD thread, an analysis of the ending of the oakvale game:

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Good stuff. I know we've had it out in the past but I wish you luck in the semi-final. You're obviously a very formidable and experienced player.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

MalaspinaGold wins by resignation. I have sent him a challenge.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

HockeyDude wins by resignation:

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Note to participants: if you can post a picture (or preferably the link) to your game after you win or lose, that would be appreciated.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Won my game against MalaspinaGold. He had a pretty heavy advantage up until he moved his queen to a sparse area of the board on the left side which allowed me to trap and eventually kill her. I also aligned my pawns in a way that essentially rendered his bishops useless. MG resigned shortly after I got his queen.