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[Alan Walton]

Tragic moment in the Gnomes-Magicians match where Neiksans had auto-promote to Queen on and didn't have time to find how to remove it to go d1=N mate.

Kd2

The position is incorrect, I believe that the black rook was on b2 according to a screen shot seen on the Reykjavik Facebook page

[Matt Mackenzie]

Tragic moment in the Gnomes-Magicians match where Neiksans had auto-promote to Queen on and didn't have time to find how to remove it to go d1=N mate.

Kd2

Apologies R was on b2:

4B1Q1/8/p7/P3k3/2p1P3/2n1KPP1/1r1p4/8 b - - 0 1

So presumably Black promoted to Q instead - what then?

EDIT: ah yes, f4+ starts a forced winning sequence for White does it - or does it? Do they have anything better than a draw??

[Chris Rice]

The Reykjavik Puffins, who have three ex-Jutes of Kent players in their side fought out a great 8-8 draw vs Hamburg yesterday in the Central division which went right down to the very last game. Puffins are a delicacy in Iceland and Bjorn Thorfinnsson got Simon Williams to eat one in Reykjavik one year. When Bjorn joined the Jutes he was dubbed immediately as the Puffin Killer. Here's a great report on the match by FM Zibbit aka Ingvar Johannesson aka by his Jutes name of "Igor" because one of the Jutes squad thought he looked like a Gothic villain. https://www.chess.com/news/view/first-r ... ffins-8771

[IM Jack Rudd]

Presumably the "didn't have time" thing is relevant here; if black can't deliver checkmate quickly, he probably loses on time.

[Chris Rice]

Presumably the "didn't have time" thing is relevant here; if black can't deliver checkmate quickly, he probably loses on time.

Black had 29 seconds left to decide whether to dive into the tool bar or cut his losses and hope for the best.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

You should be able to turn off auto-promotion in that time. If you have turned it on (is it on by default?), then you would hopefully remember how you did that. Tricky. Did the game continue or was it a draw or was the pawn promoted to queen, or was it a loss on time?

[LawrenceCooper]

Presumably the "didn't have time" thing is relevant here; if black can't deliver checkmate quickly, he probably loses on time.

Black had 29 seconds left to decide whether to dive into the tool bar or cut his losses and hope for the best.

Nd1-c3-d1+ is a draw if his time runs too low to do anything else.

[Chris Rice]

I am not exactly sure how it turned out but here's the incident as it happened with Fiona and Simon getting very excited. It also appeared he did have more than a minute to work out the auto promote so he probably could have changed it if he knew how or hadn't perhaps gone into a complete panic.

https://clips.twitch.tv/chess/HelpfulCatNinjaTroll

[Mick Norris]

TWIC with all the games

[Keith Arkell]

The big bash between the Towers and the Lions is just concluding...

[Mick Norris]

The big bash between the Towers and the Lions is just concluding...

In a 12.5 to 3.5 victory for the former

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TWIC round 2 games

[Joshua Gibbs]

A massive shout out to my personal friend JusticeBot who is playing Wesley So tonight 2am UK time

[LawrenceCooper]

My debut as an emergency reserve for London Lions didn't go very well but for someone who hasn't played computer chess in about ten years it was an interesting experience.

[Joshua Gibbs]

my friend JusticeBot lost to Wesley So though he was the exchange up at one point.

He beat Nakamura yesterday in blitz i hope he can do well wednesday

[Joshua Gibbs]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 { E60 King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, King's Knight Variation } Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. h3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 Na6 9. Be2 Nc5 10. Nd2 c6 11. O-O Re8 12. Rc1 Qc7 13. b3 Nfd7 14. a3 f6 15. Bh4 Bh6 16. b4? { (0.70 → -0.35) Mistake. Best move was Rb1. } (16. Rb1 Rf8) 16... Bxd2 17. bxc5 Bxc1 18. cxd6 Qxd6 19. Qxc1 Qc5?! { (-0.22 → 0.39) Inaccuracy. Best move was a4. } (19... a4 20. Rd1 Qc5 21. Kh1 Rf8 22. f3 Rf7 23. Be1 Qb6 24. Qc2 Nc5 25. Bf2 Qa5 26. Qb2) 20. Rd1?! { (0.39 → -0.26) Inaccuracy. Best move was Na4. } (20. Na4 Qd4 21. Bg3 Qxe4 22. Bf3 Qf5 23. dxc6 bxc6 24. Bxc6 Rb8 25. Rd1 Re7 26. c5 Nf8) 20... a4 21. Kh1 Kg7 22. f3 Nb6 23. Rf1 Nxc4 24. dxc6 b5 25. Nd5 Rf8 26. Bxc4 bxc4?! { (-0.02 → 0.65) Inaccuracy. Best move was Qxc4. } (26... Qxc4 27. Nb6 Qxc1 28. Rxc1 Rb8 29. Bf2 Re8 30. Kg1 f5 31. Nd5 Be6 32. c7 Rb7 33. Bh4) 27. f4 h6? { (0.56 → 2.39) Mistake. Best move was Be6. } (27... Be6) 28. fxe5 fxe5?? { (2.44 → 10.74) Blunder. Best move was Be6. } (28... Be6 29. Bxf6+) 29. Be7 Kh7 { White wins. } 1-0