The Mike Lomax Memorial

Hi,

A tournament has been set up so we can remember Mike
and have some good fun 'Mike would like this' games.

Tournament 22106

If anyone has played a good game post it here and the game that gets the most 'thumbs
up' will win a prize. an autographed copy of my 'Mastering Chess'. and 'Rampant Chess.'

(....and no ' that is the booby prize jokes'.) 🙂

Yours is best so far Paul!

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Yours is best so far Paul!

My only fan!

Iin the event of a thumbs up tie you get to be decide who wins.

Then forge my signature on the books and send them to the winner.
(within a week they will appear on E-Bay, I'll buy them and send them back to you.)

This is awesome, and I was highly motivated until PBFF trumped us all. Now I am playing for second-best.

Was looking through the groups

Look how unbalanced group 20 is :/
http://www.redhotpawn.com/tournament/view.php?tid=22106&rndid=1&groupid=20&issummaryview=

All the rest seem fine, good luck everyone, and remember to think "what would Mike do?" 🙂

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
Was looking through the groups

Look how unbalanced group 20 is :/
http://www.redhotpawn.com/tournament/view.php?tid=22106&rndid=1&groupid=20&issummaryview=

All the rest seem fine, good luck everyone, and remember to think "what would Mike do?" 🙂

As group 20 is concerned: there is an expression in Serbian "13th pig" (probably there is an Anglo-Saxon equivalent with "chair" instead I am no sure), so this group is a kind of lost luggage room. Like FIFA used to put Yougoslavia, Spain and Roumania at the same group in 1970's.

A couple of games have finished already.

John McRow - jankrb, Mikelom Memorial Tournament

White a bit to anxious to get the Queens off.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
A couple of games have finished already.

John McRow - jankrb, Mikelom Memorial Tournament

White a bit to anxious to get the Queens off.

[pgn]
[Event "Mikelom Memorial Tournament"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2015.05.14"]
[EndDate "2015.05.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "John McRow"]
[Black "jankrb"]
[WhiteRating "1635"]
[BlackRat ...[text shortened]... 8f6 4. Bc1g5 e6 5. e3 Nb8d7 6. Ng1f3 Qd8a5 7. Ra1c1 Nf6e4 8. Qd1b3 Ne4xc3 9. Qb3xc3 Bf8b4 [/pgn]

I got tricked. I had a bunch of games come in from the Lomax tournie and got one from Nigol. So I accepted thinking it was a 7/7 game. Turns out it was a 1 day timeout thing and I timed out. I guess that was my fault for not looking closer but that was a nasty trick anyway, I think. I told him not to bother asking me for another game.