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[JohnGalt2341]

Nice! One thing I did with my board as well, that I don't think I showed you was, for the starting positions, I took a quarter, and I traced a sharpie around it in all 8 of the starting positions. And then I colored in the appropriate colors, it's sort of hard to see the Red in this picture though. I used Blue and Red for the pieces because I already had a bunch of Blue and Red pieces made from when I made my 6x6 and 8x8 boards for myself and 2 of my coworkers at the time back in 2006. And I was a able to get the poker chips at my local Dollar Store at the time. They didn't have Black and White chips, but they had Blue and Red, so that's what I used. But I had to buy some more poker chips when I made the Hexversi board. My board is definitely not perfect by any means. But it gets the job done. It doesn't look so bad in person.




Have you glued all your poker chips together yet? If not, if you want to be REALLY anal about it, I'll tell how I did it with my new set of poker chips.

[las8]

Nice! One thing I did with my board as well, that I don't think I showed you was, for the starting positions, I took a quarter, and I traced a sharpie around it in all 8 of the starting positions. And then I colored in the appropriate colors, it's sort of hard to see the Red in this picture though. I used Blue and Red for the pieces because I already had a bunch of Blue and Red pieces made from when I made my 6x6 and 8x8 boards for myself and 2 of my coworkers at the time back in 2006. And I was a able to get the poker chips at my local Dollar Store at the time. They didn't have Black and White chips, but they had Blue and Red, so that's what I used. But I had to buy some more poker chips when I made the Hexversi board. My board is definitely not perfect by any means. But it gets the job done. It doesn't look so bad in person.




Have you glued all your poker chips together yet? If not, if you want to be REALLY anal about it, I'll tell how I did it with my new set of poker chips.

Yes, it is hard to tell in that pic due to the lighting but I have purple/green. Those are two of my favorite colors so I stuck with the IYT color scheme. I need to find someone with a cutting board. I was going to trim it into a square but I like your shape way better.

[blankoblanco]

Well, the tournament is over and I came in 2nd! I even took a game off shimgar

I know I should be pretty happy with that result, but it's a little disappointing because I know had a real chance of winning. I think I made some sharp plays but also a few crucial mistakes in the games I lost, and it's hard to beat the best when you do that

[JohnGalt2341]

Congrats on coming in 2nd! You played absolutely fantastic in this Tournament! Yeah, I really thought were going to win it, and I can definitely understand the disappointment. Those games in the Finals were mind bogglingly complex! Hopefully you gave some of us other players a road map on how to compete with, and beat shimgar at least. I can definitely tell that he's not unbeatable now. I'm going to have to try some of your openings, that's for sure!

shimgar (winner)	6	4	1.50
blankoblanco	4	4	1.00
Ivan Gutorov	2	4	0.50

Since the next Open Fast Tournament is starting on Tuesday, March 28th. I'm going to go ahead and organize another Tournament right away. I'll start the thread on SBR later tonight. And I'll do the recruiting on IYT either tonight or tomorrow.

500 Points paid to Las8 to post #17 for predicting shimgar as Tournament Champ.

1000 Points paid to Ian to post #67 for winning the Prediction Points contest.

EDIT: blanko Won the Prediction Points contest, not Ian. I ripped through it too quickly earlier. Sorry for the mix up.

[Ian]

Congrats on coming in 2nd! You played absolutely fantastic in this Tournament! Yeah, I really thought were going to win it, and I can definitely understand the disappointment. Those games in the Finals were mind bogglingly complex! Hopefully you gave some of us other players a road map on how to compete with, and beat shimgar at least. I can definitely tell that he's not unbeatable now. I'm going to have to try some of your openings, that's for sure!

shimgar (winner)	6	4	1.50
blankoblanco	4	4	1.00
Ivan Gutorov	2	4	0.50

Since the next Open Fast Tournament is starting on Tuesday, March 28th. I'm going to go ahead and organize another Tournament right away. I'll start the thread on SBR later tonight. And I'll do the recruiting on IYT either tonight or tomorrow.

500 Points paid to Las8 to post #17 for predicting shimgar as Tournament Champ.

1000 Points paid to Ian to post #67 for winning the Prediction Points contest.

Thanks again for putting this together and for the points, Galt.

Nice run, blanko. Gl in the next one.

[JohnGalt2341]

Thanks again for putting this together and for the points, Galt.

Nice run, blanko. Gl in the next one.

Oh shit dude... I just realized I made an error... I should have double checked this. blanko Won the Prediction Points. I mistakenly thought you picked shimgar, to Win the Final section, but it was blanko. Can you transer your points to blanko? I'm sorry about that man. I was in a rush when I went through it earlier.

[Ian]

Oh shit dude... I just realized I made an error... I should have double checked this. blanko Won the Prediction Points. I mistakenly thought you picked shimgar, to Win the Final section, but it was blanko. Can you transer your points to blanko? I'm sorry about that man. I was in a rush when I went through it earlier.

No worries. Points sent.