Summer 2009 - Week 2

According to the Revised Summer Schedule, this week Team A will play Team C, and Team D will play Team E (within their respective conferences).

So the pairings/results for Fortnight #2 (July 6-July 19) are: (this post will update as the games are played

Narz's People vs Wizards of Oz - Narz's People win by submission (move 18) 

Chess Unlimited vs Team Antartica - Team Antartica wins by timeout (move 1)

Animal Lovers vs Chess Empire - Animal Lovers win by timeout (move 13)

The Power of Chess vs Chess Nuts - Chess Nuts win by knockout (move 48)

Chess Team Holland vs Narz's People - Narz's People win by timeout (move 17)

Team Benelux "de Leeuwen" - withdraws - Kairav's Chess Masters, Chess Unlimited, and The Dark Knights win by forfeit

Chess Friends for Friends - withdraws - Fast Players Group, The Premiere of All, and Supreme Pawns win by forfeit

Supreme Pawns vs The Premiere of All - The Premiere of All wins by timeout (move 3)

Rapid Chess vs The Blakenators - The Blakenators win by timeout (move 24)

Once again, feel free to post any links, results, etc. in this thread.

PLEASE WRITE TO MATTER, ANIMAL LOVERS ADMIN!

You can also write to me, but I don't know if I'll answer.

We played The Wizards of Oz early due to not knowing about the scedule update until the match was arranged.  We still plan to play Chess Team Holland later this week (Friday maybe) or early next week.

Narz's People vs. Wizards of Oz 1-0

http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=23570913

ROUND 2: Team Antarctica vs Chess Unlimited (3 - 0) Win on time again on the first move!

It was agreed with Alex to start at this time, however, nobody has moved! (I think that we have to start a way to avoid this... for the good of the tournament....)

Chess Team Holland vs. Narz's People  0 - 1

unfortunately win was on time (move 17), was an exciting game while it lasted.

From: Dutchgalego
To: Billium248
Date: Jul 13, 2009 @ 3:37pm
Subject: Re: Speed Vote League

I can't handle such long games anymore. One single game do last too long. It wasn't a good idea to join this tournament after all.

Due to this negative experience I'd like to ask you to remove the teams Chess Friends for Friends and Benelux the Leeuwen.

Team Holland do have enough players to keep the game alive.

Regards, Tony

Unfortunately, it looks like we've just had our first 2 teams drop out of the league.  Lucky break for the teams in their conferences who get an extra 2 weeks off and/or automatic wins.  Unless someone else has a team willing to play out their remaining games, I don't see another alternative.  Anyone?

The last 2 games for this week have just begun!!  Good Luck to all 4 teams!!

And that concludes this week's schedule.  So at the end of Fortnight #2, the standings are:

As of July 18:

6 points - Team Antarctica (2-0)

6 points - Chess Nuts (2-0)

6 points - Narz's People (2-1)

6 points - The Dark Knights (2-0)

6 points - Fast Players Group (2-0)

6 points - The Premiere of All (2-0)

6 points - The Blakenators (2-0)

3 points - Chess & Cola Club (1-0)

3 points - The Power of Chess (1-1)

3 points - The Best (1-0)

3 points - Animal Lovers (1-0)

3 points - Chess Unlimited (1-2)

3 points - Supreme Pawns (1-2)

3 points - Kairav's Chess Masters (1-0)

0 points - Rapid Chess (0-2)

0 points - Wizards of Oz (0-2)

0 points - Chess Empire (0-2)

0 points - Chess Team Holland (0-1)

withdrawn - Team Benelux "de Leeuwen" (0-4)

withdrawn - Chess Friends for Friends (0-4)

The stats from week two's games:

2 games were won by white (29%)  (overall: 7 games (47%))

5 games were won by black (71%)  (overall: 8 games (53%))

5 games were won by timeout (71%)  (overall: 9 games (60%))

1 games was won by submission (14%)  (overall: 4 games (27%))

1 game was won by knockout (14%)  (overall: 2 games (13%))

Average length of games: 17.71 moves (5.9 hours)  (overall: 21.4 moves (7.13 hours))

Average length of games that timed out: 11.6 moves (3.87 hours)  (overall: 9.22 moves (3.07 hours))

Average length of games that went the distance: 33 moves (11 hours)  (overall: 34.17 moves (11.39 hours))

Shortest game: 3 moves (50 mins)  (Overall: 0 moves (10 mins))

Longest game: 48 moves (16 hours+) (Overall: 48 moves (16 hours+)

The Chess Nuts have had TWO marathon games in a row now for a total of 85 moves!!!  That's an AVERAGE of 42.5 moves per game!!  Don't expect these guys to timeout!!

On the flip side, both of Team Antartica's games timed out on move 1, giving them a total of only 2 moves (average 1 move per game)!!  Bring extra blankets and heaters when you play against them. 

Stylistically (this week):

Zukertort - 1 game - black wins by knockout

French - 1 game - white wins by submission

Modern Sicilian - 1 game - white wins by timeout

Queen's Gambit/Slav Defense - 1 game - black wins by timeout

Indian - 1 game - black win by timeout

Vienna - 1 game - black wins by timeout

Overall Openings:

White Wins: French (2), Classical Sicilian (1)

Black Wins: Classical Sicilian (1), Modern Sicilian (1), Zukertort (1)

Timeouts: English (1), Russian (1), Modern Sicilian (1), Queen's Gambit/Slav Defense (1), Vienna (1), Indian (1)

Yes please!!! bring your coats to play in Antarctica!!! :)

Yes Babs.  You were the only team to score a knockout this week.  The Dark Knights had the only knockout last week.  I wonder who it will be next week. 

Manny, we'll make sure to bundle up for our game this week.  At least you'll finally get to make more than one move, eh?