Week 5 (8/17-8/30) - Summer 2009

The pairings/results for Week 5 (8/17-8/30) are:

B vs E and C vs D

The Blakenators vs Animal Lovers - Game Drawn by Agreement (move 43)

Chess Empire vs Chess & Cola Club - Chess Empire wins by timeout (move 13)

Fast Players Group vs The Premiere of All - Fast Players Group wins by submission (move 19)

week off: Rapid Chess, Chess Unlimited, The Power of Chess, The Dark Knights, Wizards of Oz, Narz's People, Team Antartica, Kairav's Chess Masters, Supreme Pawns, Chess Nuts

1 game down (14 hours 45 mins).  2 to go.

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http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=26527564

Chess Empire wins by timeout on move 12.

Should I now be happy or not?

You should be happy.  I'm happy that your team finally got a win before the season was over.  I'm sorry for the Chess & Cola Club as they could have been the only team in the league to play 4 complete games.  Sorry to see that it ended in a timeout. 

Only one game left now.

But now the timeout ratio will be over 50%...

Oh well.  Some things can't be helped.  It's still light years ahead of the non-league games, and I'm still happy that so many games were able to go the distance.  It has made for a very entertaining season!!!

But we're waiting for the next one now :)

Here are the stats for this week:

2 games were won by white (67%)  (Overall: 16 games (55%))

0 games were won by black (0%)  (Overall: 12 games (41%))

1 game was a draw (33%) (Overall: 1 game (3%))

1 game was won by timeout (33%)  (overall: 15 games (52%))

1 games was won by submission (33%)  (overall: 10 games (34%))

0 games were won by knockout (0%)  (overall: 3 games (10%))

1 game was a draw (33%) (overall: 1 game (3%))

Average length of games: 25 moves (8.33 hours) 
(overall: 21.28 moves (7.09 hours)) (617 total moves - 29 total games)

Average length of games that timed out: 13 moves (4.33 hours) 
(overall: 10.27 moves (3.42 hours)) (154 total moves - 15 total games)

Average length of games that went the distance: 31 moves (10.33 hours) 
(overall: 33.07 moves (11.02 hours)) (463 total moves - 14 total games)

Shortest game: 13 moves (4 hours 25 mins)  (Overall: 0 moves (10 mins))

Longest game: 43 moves (14 hours 45 mins) (Overall: 58 moves (21 hours 4 mins))

Stylistically (this week):

B05: Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Main Line

B28: Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Maroczy Bind, Paulsen Line

B50: Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations

Overall Opening Statistics: 

White Wins:

B21: Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit

B33: Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian, Normal

B50: Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations

B90: Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack

C00: French Defense: Normal Variation

C02: French Defense: Advance Variation, Nimzowitsch System

E12:  Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov Variation

Black Wins:

A04: Zukertort Opening: Symmetrical Variation

B28: Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Normal System, Taimanov Line

B33: Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian, Normal

B50: Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations, Anti-Qxd4 Move Order

B90: Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack

C57: Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fried Liver Attack

Draws:

B05: Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Main Line

Timeouts:

A21: English Opening: King's English Variation, Reversed Sicilian

A45: Indian Game: Pawn Push Variation

B28: Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Maroczy Bind, Paulsen Line

B56: Sicilian Defense: Classical Variation

C29: Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Breyer Variation

C42: Russian Game

C55: Italian Game: Two Knights Defense

D10: Queen's Gambit: Slav Defense

E21: Nimzo-Indian Defense: Three Knights Variation, Duchamp Variation

Teams in red are the leaders in their division (automatically seeded #1-4).

Teams in bold have gone the distance.

Teams in italics have timed out.

As of August 26:

12 points - Team Antarctica (4-0)  (TB:18) (South) (clinched the #1 seed)

12 points - Chess Nuts (4-0)  (TB:18) (West) (clinched the #2 seed)

12 points - Fast Players Group (4-0)  (TB:18) (North) (clinched the #3 seed)

10 points - The Blakenators (3-0-1)  (TB:12.5) (East) (clinched the #4 seed)

9 points - Kairav's Chess Masters (3-1)  (TB:9) (South) (clinched the #5 seed)

9 points - The Power of Chess (3-1)  (TB:9) (West) (clinched the #6 seed)

9 points - The Premiere of All (3-1)  (TB:9) (North) (clinched the #7 seed)

7 points - Animal Lovers (2-1-1)  (TB:8) (East) (clinched the #8 seed)

6 points - Narz's People (2-2)  (TB:3) (West) (eliminated from playoffs)

6 points - The Dark Knights (2-2)  (TB:3) (South) (eliminated from playoffs)

6 points - Supreme Pawns (2-2)  (TB:3) (North) (eliminated from playoffs)

6 points - Chess & Cola Club (2-2)  (TB:10) (East) (eliminated from playoffs) 

3 points - Chess Unlimited (1-3)  (TB:0) (South) (eliminated from playoffs)

3 points - Rapid Chess (1-3)  (TB:0) (East) (eliminated from playoffs)

3 points - Wizards of Oz (1-3)  (TB:0) (West) (eliminated from playoffs)

3 points - Chess Empire (1-3)  (TB:6) (East) (eliminated from playoffs)

withdrawn - The Best (1-3)  (TB:0) (North)

withdrawn - Chess Team Holland (0-4)  (TB:0) (West)

withdrawn - Team Benelux "de Leeuwen" (0-4)  (TB:0) (South)

withdrawn - Chess Friends for Friends (0-4)  (TB:0) (North)