I was looking at the other Groups' standing when I noticed that in the Group #4 EbonyKing played anything else but Pirc ...  I don't think this is fair for the Tournament

Thanks MM78 for clarifications. Good luck with your future games. Hope that I will win with Lattas

A player's Neustadtl score is calculated by adding the sum of the conventional scores of the players they have defeated to half the sum of the conventional scores of those they have drawn against.

So by drawing with me lattas gets half of 7.5 which is 3.75. So if he'd lost he and you would both be on 4 points, your tie break would be 7 points (as current) and his would be 11.5 - 3.75 = 7.75.  You would still have to win.

Nope, I was in front at the tiebreak and he was in my shoes now. Bad luck for me ...

DxN, at the time I thought indeed it was probably winning but looked a lot of hard work and as i was already through to the second round I offered a draw.  I have several very difficult games going on the moment and wanted to save my efforts for those, also I had just finished a very tiring three day over the board tournament and was exhausted.

I thought with white's rook behind my passed pawn and his king in front of the kingside pawns it would be hard. Looking at it now, refreshed, I think that after Ra7 for white I play Ra4-a3 and it's hard to find a good continuation for white against the advance of the king and pawns backed up by the rook from the side.

Sorry.

I don't think it makes any difference though, without the draw you would be both be on 4 and he would have a better tie break so you would still have to win the last game between you and lattas?

I am surprised that the second game between MM78 and Lattas is a draw  .  Isn't it a winning position (OK, with a lot of fight for it) ? 

Thanks meniscus, I see what you meant now, but in most dbase games the games do not transpose into the KID and in most cases Nc3 is actually played.  I guess most e4 players would not want to transpose to a KID as white.  However in this tournament we may have some d4 players who wouldn't normally play e4 and d4 as the first 2 moves. 

3 f3 is an invitation to samisch kings indian, old indian, etc. 3.f3 denies counterplay on e4 by pawn instead of knight (pirc defense-Nc3 lines) and the lines switch when white plays the obvious coming c4.

@William: I am white in three games as well. You'll be black in the next game. I didn't set up anything; the tournament pairings and the colour for each player are all set by the server.

meniscus, what do you mean?  1e4 d6 2d4 Nf6 3f3 is still a Pirc? 

no fair. on my only game with black, my opponent has played f3 so it's no longer a pirc

:(

Your opening wasn't too bad he out played you later on.  By the way the newest book on the pirc is the PIRC in black and White by James Vigus and is bought out by Everyman chess.

Oh and by the way my opening knowledge could be improved a great deal as I only learned the basics then made the rest up.   It's not enough when playing stronger players and I need to get back to basics.

Carrie

Big fan of A. Chernin. . . let's hope his theory stands up :) Last game I got thrashed... anyone know what I did wrong?

:) Thanks for joining mate.

haha, tnx for the invitation!

LOL

Pirc...brilliant...how could I've missed you?

I've been known to play the Pirc from time to time.