The most amazing Cheese.com tournaments ever!
I ran across a group of players from Indonesia, who participated in the most eye-opening, brilliant tournaments ever staged on the site.
Each tounament produced a Fischer-like savant of a winner. Each tournament demonstrated that the first move of the game could be both powerful, yet impotent. These were awesome demonstrations of the ability to extrapolate untimate game results from just a few moves.
Some might say, the chess has been "solved". And that, perhaps, our passion for the game is misplaced. These super-humans have proved that.
Here is an example:
The tournament was organized by Ethan_Zhang, who did not participate in play.
https://www.chess.com/tournament/qwerty2
| Name | Record | Score | Tiebreak | Final Round | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HarryJamesSitorus (2001) (56 points awarded) |
8-0-0 | 8 | 24 | Round 1 -> 8 | 24 |
| #2 | tomtom_10 (1390) (28 points awarded) |
0-2-6 | 3 | 9 | Round 1 -> 3 | 9 |
| #2 | kingchessbekasi (1376) (28 points awarded) |
0-2-6 | 3 | 9 | Round 1 -> 3 | 9 |
| #2 | DRsitorus (1348) (28 points awarded) |
0-2-6 | 3 | 9 | Round 1 -> 3 | 9 |
| #2 | yahya_supers (1298) (28 points awarded) |
0-2-6 | 3 | 9 | Round 1 -> 3 | 9 |
And the winner's games:
| HarryJamesSitorus (1994) | yahya_supers (1304) | 1-0 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| yahya_supers (1308) | HarryJamesSitorus (1988) | 0-1 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| DRsitorus (1348) | HarryJamesSitorus (1982) | 0-1 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| HarryJamesSitorus (1975) | DRsitorus (1352) | 1-0 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| HarryJamesSitorus (1968) | kingchessbekasi (1376) | 1-0 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| kingchessbekasi (1380) | HarryJamesSitorus (1960) | 0-1 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| tomtom_10 (1394) | HarryJamesSitorus (1952) | 0-1 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View | |
| HarryJamesSitorus (1943) | tomtom_10 (1397) | 1-0 (won) | 3 days | 0 | 3/10/16 | View |
The games were all resigned before a move was played. The result must have been inevitable. All the other games not involving the winner, were 1-move draws!
Amazing!!
And there are at least four more tounaments just like it. Stinky cheese - and nothing has been done about it.
