Life In 19x19

I beat celebrir, somewhat fortunately. A power failure on his side interrupted a tense and difficult game.

We'd appreciate any comments on the game, by move 50 the direction of play was very difficult to assess.

Sorry, life has been rather hectic the last two months, with a new job and all, and I have quite negelected this tournament

I have processed the results so far, which means only two games remain to be able to start the next round:

jordus - tommyray

Uberdude - Practise (Loons)

I will give these two game until the end of the week, then I'm awarding forfeits. Please play by Sunday January 13, guys!

I had arranged to play Loons but he didn't make it; will he or both of us forfeit?

I can play pretty much any time 10am - 12pm GMT Thursday 10th and Friday 11th and will be idling on KGS, though I will be unavailable 8-10 on Thurs and from 6 on Fri.

I'll forfeit in that case.

My time math is inexplicable. I'm around now onwards if you would like to play.

Edit:
But now I once again need to sleep. I hope we can play some other time without a tournament.

Uberdude and I are playing now.

I won on time, though Practise was also in trouble on the board. I had a good thick opening, but things got a bit complicated when I played h3 after a loo break only noticing he had ignored my last move, ignoring the threat of his e9 h10 combo.

Hello, if this is still possible to play I will try to reach my opponent today. I hope there is still a chance to be in this tournament .

I'm happy to see that Uberdude and Practise managed to play.

Since lobotommy responded here, and Jordus didn't (and has posted recently that he does not have a reliable internet connection), I am awarding that game to lobotommy by forfeit.

I have updated the brackets at http://hiddema.nl/L19-2012.html

In the losers brackets, there are four games up:

Practise - Jedo
quantumf - redundant
stalkor - tommyray
lindentree - Laman

Everybody please try to play ASAP. I am giving everyone until the end of the month (January 31st) to have at least made an appointment to play with their opponent. Please post here if you have a date and time, which should be no later than February 10.

In the winners bracket, I get to play against Uberdude. For this game, the deadline is not as strict, as the loser has to wait for two rounds in the loser's bracket before they have to play.

Jedo and I are tentatively playing my Monday morning / his Sunday evening (which is American time I think).

I beat redundant.



If white had played M14 instead of O13 (at move 124) I think I would have had no chance.

Jedo pulled a glorious reversal in the middle, but was then slack in endgame and I won.

I'm happy to see two matches have already been played. Loons and quantumf meet each other next, so they can go ahead and play.

For the other two matches, if I don't hear anything from the players by the end of the week, I'm awarding forfeits!

The brackets at http://hiddema.nl/L19-2012.html are fully up to date.

I left Laman PMs here and on KGS but he never responded.

Never mind, he got back to me, we're going to play this Friday 20:00CET/11:00PDT.