>one participant per site
There's probably someone better but if all else fails I'm a lichess 1600
>Your ip was rejected
oh well

Who is organizing this?

>>1958
Your IP was rejected by gikopoi or by lichess?

Anyways, go team wapchan

Giko. The instance on w2ch works fine, but the link in the picture doesn't seem to like me

>>1966
Joe Biden

does wapchan have a contester?

>>2130
Tournament was an abject failure with the only matchup happening between heyuri and hikari3 (h3 won)
Not surprising with how disorganized it was, there wasn't even a thread for our opponent tohno

>>2131
tohno-chan was notified on their popular IRC channel, and already has a player ready.
Everything is being kept track of, I should have a site (next time?) that everyone can look over the details at.

Now that it seems like this is actually going to happen, I'll be putting out a note on the front page to see if anyone wants to take up the mantle of being our contender.

Ike! Wapchanneru!

Suppose I wanted a thread where I can post game analysis; should I use this /djn/ thread since it's already here, or is it more appropriate in /gens/?
I need to start studying master games and think having somewhere to post them would be a good source of motivation. I just want to ask where before I go hijacking any threads or making new ones.

Probably here to keep it all in one place

Alright, time to embarrass myself, starting with the greatest game ever played, just for posterity. I don't have anything deep to say about this one, but it's a really cool game and a hell of a good example for aggressive chess, so at least maybe some Wapanese will see it for the first time here. If this post is too big, bulky, or generally shit, just say so and I'll delete it.

Paris, 1858. White: Paul Morphy. Black: Charles II, Duke of Brunswick and Comte Isouard de Vauvenargues playing in consultation with each other.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6
Black goes for the Philidor Defense and already I betray my lack of chess knowledge. There's nothing outright wrong with this opening, so far as I'm aware, but I've never seen it mentioned without it also being said how passive black's position is. There's probably some playable line, but this definitely isn't popular compared to, say, the French.

3. d4 Bg4 4. dxe5 Bxf3
Morphy immediately destroys the center. Black trades on f3 because recapturing the pawn immediately leads to a loss of castling rights. (4… dxe5 5. Qxd8+ Kxd8)

5. Qxf3 dxe5 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. Qb3 Qe7 8. Nc3
Probably the main reason this game is so beloved is because of its simplicity. Morphy first creates a mate threat with Bc4, and when that is blocked, immediately threatens to take black's castling rights with Qb3. Black allows the lesser of two evils, that is, leaves the b7 pawn hanging as there's no way to stop both threats, but Morphy decides to keep developing- another point of brutal simplicity. The line I quickly looked at that goes into an endgame is (8. Qxb7 Qb4+ 9. Qxb4 Bxb4+ 10. Bd2 Nc6 11. Nc3 Rd8). Aside from the sheer hanging blunder that is …Nc6 12. Bb5 (I said I looked quickly), it's similar to the position the engine comes up with, with no apparent way for black to stop the queenside pawn storm.

…c6 9. Bg5 b5 10. Nxb5
All hell now breaks loose.
cxb5 11. Bxb5+ Nbd7 12. O-O-O Rd8 13. Rxd7 Rxd7 14. Rd1 Qe6
The black players use their only non-forced move to offer a queen trade. The endgame would still be entirely losing, but it's the best they could come up with. Stockfish says Qd6 is best here, but I haven't looked at that variation.
15. Bxd7+ Nxd7 16. Qb8+ Nxb8 17. Rd8#

The moral of the story is development, aggression, sacrifice, and activity. It's impossible to say anything new about this game, but I wanted to start with it anyway. Tomorrow I'll devote a few hours to really analyzing some Alekhine games.

>>2257
Here is fine - we can just use this as the chess thread for now even if it's not on the right board (with the restructuring it will probably get moved)

The first game in Alekhine's book. A really cool defense against the Ruy Lopez, sacrificing a rook and activating the bishop pair with 17… d5 and throwing an unstoppable attack at white's king. Goes to show what you get when you trade your most active piece for your opponent's least (not a trade per se but it might as well be with how many moves the knight makes for the rest of the game). There's a lot of variations in the book but I wanted to at least post the main line itself. Black's every move from 18 onward is so strong.
Did the tourney die? Hikari had the most active thread about it and it's been dead for two weeks.