Giga Dog Tournament - Losers Bracket - Critica7 vs captaintugwash

critica7 vs captain tugwash

The game will follow the correspondence rules posted here.

Time Control: 3 days/move

Timeout Warnings: 24 hours to make a move after a warning. Maximum 3 warnings. Refreshes every 40th move

Vacation Time: 14 days. Refreshes every 40th move.

Rated: This is a rated game.

Setup: See image below

Note that the position of Black's king and queen are switched compared to classical chess.

Pieces:
Guard (G) - Moves and captures like a king.

Witch (W) - The rules for the witch can be found here.

Castling:
The rules of castling are similar as in classical chess. However, with the board 10 squares wide, the king travels three squares rather than two. The rook finishes adjacent to the king. All squares between the king and rook must be unoccupied, with the exception of transparent pieces (see witch rules).

Promotion: Pawns can promote to guard and witch in addition to queen, rook, bishop or knight.

Other rules of this game are identical with rules of classical chess.

Good luck!

f4

1... f5

I'll post a board tomorrow, I haven't created one yet. You can wait if you want, it won't come out of your time.

Good luck to both.

Nd3

1. f4 f5 2. Nd3 Wg6

Ng3

3... Bc4

Bd4

4... j6

Wc3

5... Bxd3

exd3

6... Qxf4+

I can't believe I managed to fall into this opening trap twice.

Bf2

I mean, if you want my honest opinion, don't play 1. f4. I don't think it's an outright mistake (Ry will disagree), but white has to be careful as there are lots of traps to watch out for. 4. Bd4 was good, but you have to follow up with 5. Qf2, and then I think white is ok, but your queen is no longer on the e-file so I'd be happy with that. 

Still, you have the bishop pair, and a semi-open e-file, so there's some compensation for the pawn. 

7... c6

Bf3

8... g5

Qe3