
Originally Posted by
LEGION

Originally Posted by
Bilbo
It was a good night tonight, ended up 3 wins apiece and a draw.
Legion is attempting to dispute one of his losses by claiming he was offline for 5 mins, which just happened to coincide with my having forced a dominant position.
Final game was great though, I had a light meterial lead, a couple pawns but he managed to force one of his own to the 2nd rank and threatened a queen so I couldn't advance and it ended in a draw.
It's good that we're so evenly matched I think, every game has been keenly contested.
Man, who is the backstabber now? You tried to cancel the game when I got disconnected for 7 or 8 minutes. I played on even though you agreed it didn't count. So it was 3-2 with one draw. Admit it booby baggins

I offered to cancel yes indeed and you declined saying you had a losing position anyway, you denying this now?
Regardless I don't really think any of these early results matter much anyway. We are both rusty. I've not played at all in around 4 years and you havn't played for a while either.
But I think we have both improved greatly over the two nights, last night's game especially were excellent with virtually all of them going down to the wire.
My current assessment is that my overall strategy is better, I prefer my pawn structure and I can usually force myself a pawn up in most games but I think you are better at the end game than me. Twice last night I had a material advantage, in one case three pawns up but you still managed to draw in that game by pushing your pawn almost to within queening.
Some of your openings have admittedly troubled me as well and I stumbled a couple of times. However those mistakes are now lessons learned.
In future I will adopt a Nimzowitch style with fianchetto bishops occupying deadly diagonals and me attacking the center indirectly as I believe that will throw you off your game.
Either way I think it will be a couple weeks before we are both in full swing again.
It's good to meet a keen player regardless and all of our games have been incredibly close. My superiority will prove over time though

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