Continuing from the previous post, the team had the toughest possible pairing in round 1, against reigning champion team of Nicosia I (Trigiorgis, Melas, Martides, Papatri). Despite this, we were able to put up some serious resistance on the first 3 boards. Eventually we lost by 0.5-3.5 with Andreas in board 3 getting away with the draw. We finished Saturday with a marginal win over Famagusta with 2.5-1.5, by winning on boards 1 & 3, drawing on 2 and losing on 4.
On Sunday morning we faced Ofis and won by 3-1 after drawing blood on boards 1, 2, 3. We finished our games with a devastating 0-4 against the strong Larnaka I. We had to settle for a bye in the final round (9 teams participating). We would prefer to play one of the teams competing for 3rd place with us, but we still had chances if results in 3 of the matches were favourable. Indeed, the teams which has previously beat us won their games and we were hoping Ofis would score at least 1.5 points against Pafos. The match ended in a 2-2 tie, ole!
After discussing merrily outside the venue, we returned for the trophies giving ceremony to find out that we finished 4th?! wtf? Larnaka II had won also their last game and was tied with us. They outrun us for 3 place due to scoring 2 points more than us based on individual results. If only Kasparis had won 2 games in which he had overwelming advantage instead of loosing them... Or if rest of us managed to score that extra draw/win when we had the chance... I am not accusing anybody here, the players tried for the best, it was just not meant to be.
Our fist trophy outside university of cyprus is yet to come. Who knows, maybe next time...
Until then, have fun and a nice holiday.
Happy Easter!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
It's been a while...
I have been rather lazy and forgetful lately to update.
You can forget about my optimistic view in the last pst regarding huge field multitable tournies. I played 7 of them in 2 days, for which I was in again for 50% with the remaining sold as shares, with a total cost of $170. After some early bustouts and some deep runs I ended up with $0 cashes, sigh, a fruitless investment of time and money. I have not played a single mtt for almost 3 weeks now. My pokerstars account has since then been inactive, only 2 heads up sit & goes. My grind was limited to shortish cash games on full tilt, my game of choice being 6 handed pot limit holdem tables at my usual stakes ($0,25-$0,50). Had my first lengthy session after a while today, managing a profit of about $85 with an initial investment of $50, in approximately 2 hours. I was running well, playing even better, refreshed after my some kind of break from the game. Bankroll at the end of March: Full Tilt Poker $592,32 - Pokerstars $330,88.
Lets wait and see the effect of my not so short break from chess on the quality of my play during the annual team chess championship. The event is taking place this weekend, with teams fighting it over 4 tables. Time control is set at 40 minutes initial time for each player plus a 30 second increament for each move. My team has Konstantinos Konstantinides playing on 1st board, yours trully Michalis Philippou (me) on 2nd, Andreas Georghiou on 3rd, Nikolas Casparis on 4th and Cyprus Chess Federation president Christoforos Tornaritis as a reserve. Apart from our 3rd board player, the rest of the team has been inactive lately, thus I am hoping the team will be able to hold its own tomorrow. Fellow player and close friend Konstantinos told me about a dream he had a few years ago. Him and I we were playing such a tournament, having Robert James (Bobby) Fischer, the 11th World Chess Champion (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) , as team mate. Do you think that the spirit of Bobby Fischer is going to be with us tomorrow? We shall see...
While hoping to hear good news from me soon, take care.
You can forget about my optimistic view in the last pst regarding huge field multitable tournies. I played 7 of them in 2 days, for which I was in again for 50% with the remaining sold as shares, with a total cost of $170. After some early bustouts and some deep runs I ended up with $0 cashes, sigh, a fruitless investment of time and money. I have not played a single mtt for almost 3 weeks now. My pokerstars account has since then been inactive, only 2 heads up sit & goes. My grind was limited to shortish cash games on full tilt, my game of choice being 6 handed pot limit holdem tables at my usual stakes ($0,25-$0,50). Had my first lengthy session after a while today, managing a profit of about $85 with an initial investment of $50, in approximately 2 hours. I was running well, playing even better, refreshed after my some kind of break from the game. Bankroll at the end of March: Full Tilt Poker $592,32 - Pokerstars $330,88.
Lets wait and see the effect of my not so short break from chess on the quality of my play during the annual team chess championship. The event is taking place this weekend, with teams fighting it over 4 tables. Time control is set at 40 minutes initial time for each player plus a 30 second increament for each move. My team has Konstantinos Konstantinides playing on 1st board, yours trully Michalis Philippou (me) on 2nd, Andreas Georghiou on 3rd, Nikolas Casparis on 4th and Cyprus Chess Federation president Christoforos Tornaritis as a reserve. Apart from our 3rd board player, the rest of the team has been inactive lately, thus I am hoping the team will be able to hold its own tomorrow. Fellow player and close friend Konstantinos told me about a dream he had a few years ago. Him and I we were playing such a tournament, having Robert James (Bobby) Fischer, the 11th World Chess Champion (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) , as team mate. Do you think that the spirit of Bobby Fischer is going to be with us tomorrow? We shall see...
While hoping to hear good news from me soon, take care.
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