Today I will share my latest loss from Queen Alice Internet Chess Club. The way I am playing there at the moment, the next latest loss from there will be the next game that finishes there. The game below is from the second round of the AUTO-MASTER-2135 tournament that is still being played. I doubt it will be for much longer though, because the only remaining game in that tournament is my other game against Evandrobit and I have a feeling it will soon end... This tournament of course started as well as a tournament can start because I won all my games on round one. The second round seems to be the complete opposite of round one, I have lost all my games on round two and will most likely lose the last game in progress aswell. Of all the correspondence chess sites, my rating at Queen Alice Internet Chess Club is clearly the highest and at the moment it is the only thing that might keep me playing there. That is because the site has one major weakness, tournaments can go to a situation where they are never completed. The reason for this is that there is no automatic timeout in any of the games. I have two tournaments going there that are likely never going to be finished. The one that started in 2011 does not matter to me all that much because I have finished all my games in that tournament years ago, but the other one started only last year and it is halted by two players who are unwilling to claim their timeout wins. One reason for this might be that because they have no chance to advance in that tournament so why would they bother to finish their games and give other people the opportunity to win the tournament... I would always claim the timeouts, so that the tournament can continue even if I could no longer win it myself. That latter tournament I am interested in because I would be advancing to the next round if those two players would claim their wins. I have added one mate in one, one mate in three, one mate in five, one mate in six and one mate in seven puzzle today. Until tomorrow, my fellow chess enthusiasts!
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