Chess BigFooty Chess Club v Peak Performers (BIGFOOTY WIN 10.5-9.5)

[Chipmunk]

BigFooty’s fifth chess match

It's a strong step up in quality as we play an experienced team in Peak Performers. We are very much the underdogs but can we pull off a famous win!

BigFooty vs Peak Performers

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[Chipmunk]

BIGFOOTY 10.5 v 9.5 PEAK PERFORMERS​

(first to 10.5 points wins, each pairing plays twice)

BIGFOOTY	RESULT	RESULT	PEAK PERFORMERS
JubJub1 - daddy_4_eyes	0.5 0.5	0.5 0.5	DawnChorus21
Sacul2193 - thewizardmelon	0 0.5	1 0.5	captainthai
Schulzenfest - Schulzenfest	10	01	imbackagain14
CursingFijian - CursingFijian	10	01	FederFredericksen
Jaymin36 - Jaymin	0.5 0	0.5 1	Laytexlove
RMuhlberger - RalfM	1 0.5	0 0.5	wjtay8214
GravyTrainImperator - SunsphereParker	11	00	abdul_550
Pickler_MZ - pickler_mz	00	11	TamerOnline
mwerps - mwerps	11	00	skorpionbg
prsancho - GremioPower	10	01	daven59

 

[Chipmunk]

Good first win by Schulzenfest !

daddy_4_eyes thewizardmelon Schulzenfest CursingFijian Jaymin RalfM SunsphereParker pickler_mz mwerps GremioPower

 

[RalfM]

Good first win by Schulzenfest !

daddy_4_eyes thewizardmelon Schulzenfest CursingFijian Jaymin RalfM SunsphereParker pickler_mz mwerps GremioPower

Playing speed games rather than move per day, I see?

Well done!

 

[GremioPower]

3-2

SunsphereParker won his match.
Schulzenfest tied.
Jaymin lost with black.

 

[Schulzenfest]

My opponent was about 200 rating higher than me, so I'll take the 1-1.

 

[TheArchitect]

Hi all. Would love to be involved in this next time around.

I came here to discuss the Niemann vs Carlsen stuff too. Drama!

 

[Chipmunk]

Hi all. Would love to be involved in this next time around.

I came here to discuss the Niemann vs Carlsen stuff too. Drama!

I’ll tag you next time (depending on how this match goes maybe the start of next year) and please join the BigFooty chess club.

And feel free to discuss Niemann v Carlsen here too, chess is now mainstream news!

 

[TheArchitect]

I love the drama. Have been following pretty closely and the performances of niemann have been somewhat suspsicious as deemed by people smarter than myself.

His coach having a very iffy record isn’t a great look either.

Gut feel is he is guilty - Magnus knows something more but he can’t say due to legal ramifications. Niemann’s rise is too meteoric compared to others, and his performances on non televised games is average.

 

[RalfM]

If Hans and his coach are cheating, they're doing a great job of it to not have it picked up by Ken Regan... It's such an interesting space given the moves are all there to be checked.

 

[Jaymin]

Drew my second game. Laytexlove a bit too good for me unfortunately.

 

[Chipmunk]

Drew my second game. Laytexlove a bit too good for me unfortunately.

That was a good game from what I was seeing…especially as you were outrated by 100 or so points!

 

[GremioPower]

Ten games in, and we are leading:

5 - 4 - 1

BigFooty vs Peak Performers

www.chess.com

MWPP, effortless!

 

[GremioPower]

I have clearly made a mistake in one game, but I feel to be a bit ahead on the other.

But, it's board 10. Anything is possible.

 

[RalfM]

No matter what, I'm enjoying my games so far. Solid battles going on

 

[RalfM]

My first game has ended in a draw, but was an awesome fight...

 

[Chipmunk]

A good draw from daddy_4_eyes and a strong win by GremioPower and we’re 8-7 up with 5 games to play.

Could we pull this off?

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

A good draw from daddy_4_eyes and a strong win by GremioPower and we’re 8-7 up with 5 games to play.

Could we pull this off?

ehh, my opponent played super passive. Just reacted to me and did nothing to play for the win.
I tried to mix things up (couple sacs), but first chance he got to repeat moves in both games he took it.

 

[RalfM]

A win for me on the second game. On time, but when there's a day per move and the opponent is close to 100 points better (before our games), I'll take it

9:7

Let's do this!

 

[RalfM]

Just had a look through the game analysis, and it was very close throughout. Particularly happy with my play given that I was at a very time-intensive work event from Thursday to Sunday last week, and played the last couple of moves with covid brain-fog.

 

[Chipmunk]

2 games to go from CursingFijian against the guy who has over 1000 games on the go and it’s 0.5 a point for a draw, 1 point for a win.

Good luck mate!

 

[RalfM]

Great games CursingFijian - all the best on the last game! What a close finish for the tournament! You've got this!

 

[CursingFijian]

Great games CursingFijian - all the best on the last game! What a close finish for the tournament! You've got this!

 

[CursingFijian]

I've got him guys!

Just a matter of time. But he is trying to draw it out.

 

[RalfM]

I've got him guys!

Just a matter of time. But he is trying to draw it out.

I've been checking in every few days and it's been great watching the last game play out. You've definitely got this!!!