Akizy and Ironman battle for the top.

Originally posted by Vovochka
How is that possible? The first round hasn't finished yet and there is a list of all participants: only 4 and not 9 began it.

Originally posted by fierytorment
I have it from a very good source Ironman has lost 16 on gameknot......

http://www.redhotchess.com/tournament/view.php?tid=533

This tournament has a number of high-ranking players in each group (I believe 8 out of the top 20 are playing at the moment in this tournament).

Still, only 8 out of 20. If there was a large timebank then i'm sure all of the top 16, or 20 players could enter. It would be good to have an official RHP champion every year. And also, some of the tournaments, say for example, Ironman31 enters, have low rated players...its a waste of Ironman's time playing these people in a way, because he knows he's gonna win. I think its a good suggestion. i'd love to see it happen.

I think a knock-out tournament featuring the top 16, or 32 would be very exciting.

Originally posted by David Tebb
No, we're in round 2, which started yesterday. The tables for round 1 can be accessed by clicking on the link within the tournament information box at the top of the page.

Maybe I'm not a good enough player but why did Ironman resign in that game against Akizy? There was hardly a piece captured, was Akizys positioning that much better?

I'm no wiser myself.. Didn't seem to be too bad but what would I know? There was a thread about that loss to Akizy and Ironman did write an analysis of the game - I can't even read the notation so it doesn't make any sense to me - sounds good though!

Here it is: http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=20385&page=2

Ironman is actually #2 on Gameknot........ hes just lost 17 times, thats all. And yes, I'd say gameknot has tougher players but this site is no pushover either

Why dont those tough players come here?

I don't know..... why don't you email them all a challenge to come play here so they can kick all of our buts here

I would if I knew all there names.

www.gameknot.com..... there is a link there for the top players as a matter of fact here it is......

http://gameknot.com/rankings.pl

Originally posted by Blitz00
Why dont those tough players come here?

WeyerStrass and SeaDevil are there too as well