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Untitled Tuesday and Saturday recaps - June

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Apologies for the delayed recap.  Thanks to @IMRonilm1204 for volunteering to write it, and NM @1g41-0, a former Untitled Tuesday participant before he earned his NM title, for assisting him with the game analysis.

Tuesday Event: June 4, 2019
 
The June Untitled Tuesday was one for the ages.. The Tuesday event featured mostly three players, all high rated in the field. Ultimately, Ast_F9 won the Tuesday event, but was disqualified for double accounting. This meant Mazetix took 1st place, cjxchess17 finished 2nd, and chessguy1012 finished 3rd. 
Another notable player was rychessmaster1. He went 3/6, but then withdrew. Here is a nice round 1 game against luisen_17. Both players had a couple of missed opportunities, especially luisen_17.
In the next round, rychessmaster1 had an advantage most of the game against chessguy1012, but then eventually blundered a rook.

Another top seed in the tournament, Wandregisel, had gone 0.5/2 and then got paired against chessguy1012. Chessguy1012 had a tough time, missing a mate in 4 twice, and also an unfortunate mouseslip that hung his bishop in a winning endgame.
The winner of the tournament - Mazetix - got paired against luisen_17 in round 4. Luisen_17held his own, but he blundered in time trouble and lost. Mazetix became 3/3, not including the one point taken because he late-joined.
Two more players high in the field - Chessking_original and ate_monang - played each other, and Chessking_original won in a two bishop ending. Chessking_original was 3.5/4 after this game.
In round 6, chessguy1012 starting experimenting with irregular openings (such as 1. b4 then 2. a3) against me. To be honest, this loss was pretty demoralizing. I blundered a tactic that cost me my queen.

In round 7, cjxchess17 was paired with chessguy1012. It was a two bishop ending, and it was another long draw (like last time they played).

In that same round, Mazetix was paired with Wandregisel. The final position was close to a basic Philidor's Position. Wandregisel withdrew after this round, finishing 4.5/8.

In round 8, Chessking_original swindled cjxchess17 in a won endgame for white, although both players missed a ton of chances.

In that same round, Mazetix got paired against chessguy1012, and it ended in another draw. Chessguy1012 finished the day with 3 draws.

In round 9, one of the biggest surprises of the tournament - pokerram - had a HUGE upset against patzers. Pokerram eventually finished 9th place in the tournament.

In the final round, Mazetix beat Chessking_original in a losing position.

Although Mazetix and Ast_F9 both won their games, it was cjxchess17 who had the chance to win Untitled Tuesday with a win - or a draw (he would have won second if Ast_F9 hadn't been disqualified). All he had to do was get around me (which far too many people have done tongue.png), but I pulled off the upset. Cjxchess17, if you are reading this, you had no business in losing that game sad.png.

Saturday Event: June 8, 2019

The Untitled Tuesday Saturday Event had a very competitive field, with DMGame being the tournament's highest rated player. But, he withdrew after round 7, going 4.5/7. The tournament's second highest rated player, MikeChesser, won Untitled Tuesday Saturday event with a perfect 10/10, making it possible with lots of skill - and some luck - along the way. In fact, he was the first person since November 2017 to get a perfect 10/10 score and not get banned. 

Here is a round 1 game where luisen_17 missed a couple of wins against MikeChesser and finally lost after blundering a pawn in a drawn endgame.

In that same round, 1981bole had a nice draw against Lukemaster101, another player high in the field.

Chess.com's top daily player, Elroch, surprisingly flagged a losing position against patzers.

In round 2, arismonrovia had a huge upset over patzers.

MGleason also had his fair share of upsets. He beat op99 in a nice miniature.

In round 3, arismonrovia had another big upset win, this time against sougataghosh.

Lukemaster101 had a very lucky (and unlucky!) draw against the tournament's highest rated player - DMGame.

In round 5, MikeChesser extended his streak to 5/5 with a lucky escape against Lukemaster101.

Jegern1 had a loooong and unlucky draw against sougataghosh, lasting 91 moves.

Here are the standings after round 5: 

Round 6 had quite a few upsets. 

This wasn't really an upset, but Zeinot17 completely swindled AMGame12.

Vyacheslav_Sub was winning against MakeHell_Tal, but blundered his queen. He then got a lucky break as MakeHell_Tal blundered his queen as well on a premove.

Also, chess_pagol had a notable draw against Lukemaster101.

Here are the standings after round 6: 

In round 7, MikeChesser had another lucky escape, extending his streak to 7/7. This time, it was against Lord_axe.

Now, Elroch has always been a strong daily player, but never called himself a blitzmeister. But, he proved otherwise, defeating the tournament's highest rated player, none other than DMGame. In fact, he even got a brilliant move according to the analysis!

Here are the standings after round 7:

MiddlegamerUmesh defeated Lukemaster101, who blundered a draw in time trouble.

Pokerram had a HUGE swindle against Elroch in round 8. 

Here are the standings after round 8 and round 9: 

Final results: https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/saturday-event---june-1071569 

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