Originally posted by no1marauderI apologise for my intended sarcasm missing its mark.
Perhaps you could honor us with your obviously superior chess expertise and describe what you feel would have been a winning strategy in either game.
If anyone is interested as far as I can tell the novelties were 10. ... Be7 (10. ... Nc6 played twice for two draws) and 20. b4 (20. Qe2 played twice for a white win and a draw).
Always good to see matches between top players, even if these two games were "grandmaster draws". I'd like to suggest that Red Hot Pawn consider in the future some sort of grouping of "candidates matches" like the old FIDE system in which the top ten players (for example) could play a series of matches until via elimination one was left over to be declared "Red Hot Pawn Champion". From what I can tell thus far many of the top players at this site spend a lot of their time playing much lower rated players, due to the clan/challenge/tournament system. One big "Red Hot Pawn Championship" could be very interesting. And as with typical OTB Open tournaments, this could include an "A" section, "B" section, "C" section, etc.
Another consideration, albeit one more difficult to organize no doubt, would be for Red Hot Pawn to assemble its top players to challenge another Internet correspondence site, though granted I'm not aware of too many such sites. But if organized it could be the beginnings of a kind of "cyber-FIDE"...
Originally posted by Metamorphosisthere is a championship about to start
Always good to see matches between top players, even if these two games were "grandmaster draws". I'd like to suggest that Red Hot Pawn consider in the future some sort of grouping of "candidates matches" like the old FIDE system ...[text shortened]... rganized it could be the beginnings of a kind of "cyber-FIDE"...
http://www.redhotpawn.com/tournament/index.php?view=open
you will have to subscibe to enter of course - your record shows you are quite a strong player.
maybe kanarjoli should subscribe and enter too!
good luck with your rematch with kanarjoli.
of course the first round will require play against weaker players, but the opponents will quickly become much stronger.
as for a playoff between the top ten rated players as a real championship ... have a close look at Northern Lad, SteveC, Quirine, TRACKHEAD21 and others.
you might like to reconsider whether that is really the way to go.
