[diana_eva]

diana_eva vs chuck11, I lost by 9 (11-20) :
http://webutil.bridg...462&u=diana_eva

[diana_eva]

frank, safe to start playing these, right? smerriman's challenges count too?

[ovncylmz]

SAFE TO START.. JUST READ THE FIRST POST -- IMPS 16BOARDS BEST HAND.. GOODLUCK..

[ovncylmz]

 smerriman, on 2016-October-29, 14:06, said:

Oops. Already had a couple of challenges accepted after Diana confirmed the bots. dadim + awm - will just play these two for fun to get them off the list, but not to be counted, I guess.

They will be counted.. Please play normal..

[ovncylmz]

SMERRIMAN - DADIM - AWM

Please tell us the state in your games so we can figure out what happens..

Smerriman - How many boards did you play?

Awm - Did you see the set yet?

Dadim - Did you finish the set? (I heard he started)

[ovncylmz]

ovncylmz-frank0:+31
http://webutil.bridg...4079&u=ovncylmz

[frank0]

Another painful start, I guess this event is very tough

-31 vs. ovncylmz http://webutil.bridg...774079&u=frank0

-17 vs. olegru http://webutil.bridg...774961&u=frank0

[awm]

 ovncylmz, on 2016-October-29, 15:35, said:

SMERRIMAN - DADIM - AWM

Please tell us the state in your games so we can figure out what happens..

Smerriman - How many boards did you play?

Awm - Did you see the set yet?

Dadim - Did you finish the set? (I heard he started)

I have played challenges against smerriman and dadim. I also challenged p_marlowe. Waiting for my opponents to finish.

[barmar]

I'm now following all the players in my group. So follow me before issuing the challenge and it will be accepted immediately.

[smerriman]

 ovncylmz, on 2016-October-29, 15:35, said:

SMERRIMAN - DADIM - AWM

Please tell us the state in your games so we can figure out what happens..

Smerriman - How many boards did you play?

Awm - Did you see the set yet?

Dadim - Did you finish the set? (I heard he started)

I haven't started against Dadim. I rushed through half of the boards against awm this morning trying to get it out of the way quickly without paying much attention since you had not to start. What should I do now?

(I was doing quite badly, so now not sure how fair it would be to restart, but I was going quite fast.)

[awm]

 smerriman, on 2016-October-29, 17:12, said:

I haven't started against Dadim. I rushed through half of the boards against awm this morning trying to get it out of the way quickly without paying much attention since you had not to start. What should I do now?

(I was doing quite badly, so now not sure how fair it would be to restart, but I was going quite fast.)

Sure let's restart our match.

[ovncylmz]

Play the full game vs. Dadim.. That game will count..

We will make the decision about the AWM game shortly..

[ovncylmz]

Okay - if AWM accepts, just redo the game. Again, your game vs. dadim will count.

[chuck11]

Chuck11 vs Wank: Chuck11 won +15
http://webutil.bridg...73683&u=chuck11

[smerriman]

 awm, on 2016-October-29, 17:25, said:

Sure let's restart our match.

Having thought about it, I'm going to feel too bad restarting in case the fact I was doing badly is influencing my reasoning too much. So I'll just accept the boards so far and finish out the challenge. That's the fairest all round.

[diana_eva]

diana_eva vs barmar 22-13, I won by 9:
http://webutil.bridg...097&u=diana_eva

diana_eva vs wank 37-12, I won by 25:
http://webutil.bridg...998&u=diana_eva

Challenge vs nekthen pending, he can cancel and resend if he can't play soon.

[ovncylmz]

ovncylmz +34 vs. olegru
http://webutil.bridg...4939&u=ovncylmz

[ovncylmz]

 smerriman, on 2016-October-29, 17:57, said:

Having thought about it, I'm going to feel too bad restarting in case the fact I was doing badly is influencing my reasoning too much. So I'll just accept the boards so far and finish out the challenge. That's the fairest all round.

ok smerriman, fair call.

[awm]

awm vs. dadim: dadim wins by 3, although board 3 looks like a bad claim by him that perhaps could be adjusted to give him a win by 17.

http://webutil.bridg...477776547&u=awm

Big swings were on boards 11 and 15 where dadim upgraded balanced hands by a point, and reached a better contract and/or got a softer defense because of it. Guess I played it too straight for a GIB match.

[awm]

awm vs smerriman; awm wins by 42

http://webutil.bridg...477769234&u=awm