August report
Club players, borderline masters and patzers of all ages, welcome to the post-tournament report for the August 2017 Untitled Tuesday! This event was another unbridled success for our group. With a rapidly growing membership of 700+ and 90 players in the August event, we've finally grown large enough to be noticed and even embraced by Chess.com itself. Watch as Daniel Rensch himself gives kudos to the event and even hints at a future Chess.com sponsorship.
Tuesday's winner is the massively strong blitzer Dominus_et_Deus, who now sports a blitz rating of nearly 2400.
"I like this guy. He plays interesting chess." - @LonerDruid, upon seeing Dominus essaying 1. d4 f5 2. Bf4 e6 3. Nf3 Bd6!? as Black
The first four rounds of the tournament goes on without a clear leader. It was on the 5th round that @Dominus_et_Deus takes the lead with a score of 5/5 by beating @ChrisJCashman.
This game and the next were annotated by @solskytz.
However, that lead didn't last long as Round 6 shook up the standings with not one, but two critical games. @Indirect stole the spotlight and the lead with a thematic, but stunning Dragon rook sacrifice against @logozar, while @Joseph_Truelson toppled @Dominus_et_Deus from a worse position when the latter couldn't find the best way to continue his attack.
In the critical eighth round @Dominus_et_Deus reclaimed the lead with this nice win against @Snow_Lion as the leader @Joseph_Truelson blundered in his game against @SJFG:
The leaderboard stayed much the same throughout the final round of play, with the top three all winning their games. The most interesting of the bunch was @Joseph_Truelson's win over @chess2wonder in an interesting endgame where although the annotator (Mr. Truelson himself) thinks he enjoyed an edge for most of the endgame, I'm not quite sure.
Congrats to @Dominus_et_Deus for winning the August Untitled Tuesday on tiebreaks by just half a point! Here's one more nice win from him, where as White he breaks down @SJFG's Stonewall Dutch with a beautifully simple plan: c2-c4, b2-b4-b5, a couple of captures, then plonk a rook on d6 and win.
Final crosstable for the August Untitled Tuesday:
Aspiring cheaters should take their business elsewhere 
But - and we've seen this before, come Round 5, the leader @logozar began to slip as the eventual winner @Joseph_Truelson kept on winning games. Epitomizing this trend is @logozar's incredibly lucky win in the fifth round, where on the Black side of a 10... a5 English Attack he was completely outplayed in just seven moves, later losing the Exchange, only to create just enough chaos on the queenside to allow @Joseph_Truelson, whose position was won for the better part of the game, to miss every single win there was.
