Welcome to the finals!
Tonight I will be liveblogging three finals games. You can follow them in this diary, or in real time on chess.com!
Instructions for watching the finals matches in real time:
- Register for a free account on www.chess.com.
- After registering and logging in, you can observe live chess matches in the Live Chess window, which you can find under the green Play tab at the top of the page. Live Chess works best with Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.
- In the menu called "Room - Main Hall", click on the Games tab. Sort the list of matches by time in descending order (longer time first). Each of the matches are 30 minutes long with 0 bonus time. NOTE: MakeChessNotWar's chess.com username is FM_Eric_Schiller, and louisedkos's chess.com username is jjohnson29.
- Click on the "Observe" link next to the game.
PUMP-UP JAM: "F**kin' in the Bushes" by Oasis
Earlier this evening, vets74 defeated mquander to finish with 7 points through 8 rounds. Now, we shall await the winners of these final three games to see if there is a tie for first place. MakeChessNotWar, PsiFighter37, and Sharkmeister are each tied with 6.5 points with a match still left to be played. brendanm98,cschess, and louisedkos each have 6 points.
Good luck to all the players!
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MakeChessNotWar (WHITE) vs. Sharkmeister (BLACK)
Update at move 31: MakeChessNotWar is leading by 1 Pawn & 1 Bishop
UPDATE! MakeChessNotWar has won. That means the only player who can tie him is PsiFighter37.
cschess (WHITE) vs. PsiFighter37 (BLACK)
Update at move 22: PsiFighter37 has less than 9 minutes remaining on the clock. cschess has less than 14 minutes.
Update at move 38: Less than 4 minutes remaining for both players.
UPDATE: Game has been drawn.
brendanm98 (WHITE) vs. louisedkos (BLACK)
UPDATE: louisedkos has won on time, with only 7.3 seconds remaining!
mquander (WHITE) vs. vets74 (BLACK) (annotated by Fritz)
CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE: It's all over! With a draw by cschess vs. PsiFighter37, MakeChessNotWar has won the tournament! Congratulations! And thanks to all players for showing up to participate in the liveblog and in chess.com for their discussion.