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FrankW77 booked the bunch of Suspectsss last night in the Chess.com abbreviated swiss tournament with G10/5 time controls. Frank's gold medal 2/3 mark surpassed the 1.5/3 records of Tijuanaboomboom and Mathchew who took silver and bronze medals. The tournament was cancelled by the website sometime before 5 pm PST without explanation. Several attempts were made to recreate it, but an error message kept appearing indicating that the proposed event overlapped a scheduled shutdown, presumably o...

BY SHAN LEE Top seed FritzJ (3/3) won gold in Wednesday's Double Nickels XI swiss. FrankW77 (2/3) won silver and Mr. Pithers (1/3) won bronze through tiebreaks. Fritz faced Pithers in round 1 with the Scandinavian Variation of Alekhine's Defense. The game was even until move 12 when Pithers blundered and Fritz picked up a pawn. After simplifying to a bishop vs bishop endgame, a pawn up, Fritz won handily. Frank played a London against bulletheadbilly in the first round and the game was eve...

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Tijuanaboomboom was unbeaten in last night's Slow Mow X swiss, grabbing the gold on tiebreaks over silver medalist CounterAttack after both paladins posted 2.5/4 marks. Third place went to Sacballer23 with a 1/3 score. Culjakben rounded out the four player field but dropped out after the second round. In the first round TJ had the black pieces and countered Culjakben's English with a KID in a game that was mostly even until a blunder left TJ with mate in 2. On board 2, the Count took a soli...

Mathchew (3.5/4) was the man Saturday night as he plowed through an 8 player field to grab the gold medal ahead of top seed Shanlee (3/4) and third place Tijuanaboomboom (2.5/4). Fourth place was 1FlowerSword, also at 2.5/4 but with fewer tiebreaks, while CadvanDecker got fifth place with 1.5/4. Eric Arabian was sixth over swojnowski with 1/4 marks, and FrankW77 was eighth. Chewy opened on board four with a seven move win over FloSwo who appeared to make a mouse slip. Meanwhile on board one...

BY SHAN LEE Top seed shanlee132 got first in this week's Double Nickels tournament, with a score of 3/3, besting 2nd place Bulletheadbilly with 2/3 and 3rd place culjakben with 1.5/3.  Shan played against BHB's d4 with a Pirc Maroczy in round 1, overlooking a couple of early mistakes. After quick development, Shan traded queens, then missed another BHB blunder but still easily won.  In other round 1 action, EricArabian took on Ben with an Alapin variation, picking up a pawn while exchangin...

Tijuanaboomboom blasted through last night's Tuesday Slow Mow IX swiss, picking up a pair of wins with black and a lucky draw with the white pieces to beat out FrankW77 for the gold medal while Juicegiusti nabbed the bronze. The Juice and Frank each scored 2/3 but Frank prevailed in tiebreaks for the silver. CounterAttack was fourth and  Sacballer23 was fifth. Rounding out the 8 player field was J-Kob, WagnerFreitas and Bulletheadbilly who all dropped out. In the opening round, the Juice go...

Mathchew posted 4 rounds of undefeated chess to win last night's USUAL SUSPECTS XXVII to earn the gold medal over EricArabian on tiebreaks after both paladins scored 3.5/4. Swojnowski nailed the bronze on tiebreaks over SacBaller23 after they both scored 2/4. Fifth place went to Tijuanaboomboom at 1.5/4 and FrankW77 was sixth  with .5/4. FlossyFlo, juicegiusty and MergedJuan all dropped out after round 2 making the event a nin-player affair. In the opening round, top seed Frank faced Eric, ...

BY SHAN LEE WedDouble Nickels IX’s champion was EricArabian (3/3) while top seed Artwork21 got second on tiebreaks over Tijuanaboomboom, both at 2/3.   Art opened round 1 against counter_attack123 with e4 and the  Count countered with the classical variation of the CaroKann. The game was unremarkable until Art pushed to c4 followed by an inaccurate king move, evening the game again. Count blundered a pawn and then a knight and Art was up a rook going into the endgame, ultimately winning ...