Another Oops

Rubidium Rd 2. Pretty much a speed game, especially by Black, played at 45 45.

BadHabitMarco Wins Again

Rhenium Rd 2. An interesting game that ended with a strong attack.

Strange Moves

Strontium Rd 2. Iowa-Archer took advantage of some weird moves by his opponent.

TerryMalloy Scores The Point

Rhenium Rd 2. White miscalculated a trade leading to a pawn ending. TerryMalloy demonstrated why the trade was wrong.

Round 2 Games

Tellurium Rd 2. Tamarin got Tellurium off to a good start. White made one of those "oops" moves which lost a lot of material and had to resign.

Good Play By milesotoole

Niobium Rd 1. Miles completed the 4-0 sweep with this good game.

Great Attack By BadHabitMarco

Rhenium Rd 1. Good stuff! The win allowed Rhenium, out ranked on every board, to secure a match draw.

FlyingTiger Wins

Niobium Rd 1. Black couldn't castle so his Rook got stuck on h8. The whole game revolved around this issue. Black had a chance to solve the problem but didn't. When the Rook finally moved it was too late. Nice Tactics by FlyingTiger to finish the game. Thus Niobium won the match 4-0.

A Fine Gane From Universe

Rhenium Rd 1. Instructive example on attacking a pawn chain. Great play from universe.

I spelled BadHabitMarco's name wrong in the post introducing the element T53 players. Profound apologies. This is what BadHabitMarco looks like, ..sort of.

And this is BadHabitNarco