Bughouse on giant boards

Bughouse on giant boards is one of the main attractions of the Geneva gathering, probably the most fun for the spectators, but also for the players. The bad weather almost deprived us of it, but fortunately the rain stopped on the Monday and we were able to play after emptying the plastic pieces. Played with 7 minutes on the clock instead of 3, giant bughouse stills favors very much the fast runners; Marv and nabla proved to be the most succesful team.
As this was not enough, we also had a session of simul giant bughouse, MiRU (god he is fast!) being the only one to beat nabla  - who had been training physically since monthes for this event :-)
 

All pictures

Typical scene of giant board bughouse. Note that the players have a white square to their left, this being forced by the non-bughouse-friendly disposition of the boards.

Tjeulesbetes and Marv in a blitz phase

"maestro" Marv waiting for nabla's knight (coming!)

MiRU (left) is almost faster on giant boards than on normal ones

marcusm (right) taking it (too) easy against nabla

Demonstration by marcusm of capturing with the foot

Simul bughouse on giant boards! nabla (running) against Tjeulesbetes (moving)

MiRU (background) giving everything he has to blitz the opening against nabla

nabla beginning to understand the importance of a fast start in this game: 2 seconds lost after one move, one minute after 10!

Left MiRU, left hidden John Beasley, right marcusm, dagger, Marv (in background). Boo, they are lazy!

Quiet bughouse on giant boards. Foreground Hung Fioramonti vs Zola

The boards soon found other lovers after we left them. These one are going on playing with a white square to their left.
 
 

Baaaaaack