Sunday, multi-bughouse simul

A spectacular event it was supposed to be, and a spectacular event it was! Let us recall that multi-bughouse is usually played on 2N boards, the winner team being the first to score N wins. First it was supposed to be a sort of ladder challenge for Gnejs, first playing a simul multi-bughouse against 3 opponents, then gaining an opponent with each win and losing an opponent with each loss. This lasted less than expected: after winning against 3 and 4 opponents and losing to 5 opponents, Gnejs was pouring with sweat and had to take a break: true, playing multi-bughouse simul with 5 minutes on all boards requires a lot of energy!
After that, marcusm first try some simul of his own, and then partnered Gnejs to play with 2 players against up to 10 players. Believe it or not, they managed to win one of the simuls against 10 players by 5 games to 4! And the opponents were no beginners, as you can check on the picture.
After Gnejs retired, nabla partnered marcusm, but their 10-board challenge proved a lot less successful, losing 5 games before being able to win a single one.

All the pictures


Gnejs against four! From left to right Tjeulesbetes, Pablo Schmid, Yama Sangin, Zola

Gnejs against five! Tjeulesbetes, Yama Sangin, Pablo Schmid, Jean-Pierre Vegh, MiRU

Gnejs and marcusm in collaboration

Four boards and a beer is what I would call simuling

marcusm and Gnejs against ten in their won game
Playing, from bottom to top: dagger, Yama Sangin, Pablo Schmid, RalfiZoller, MiRU, Marv, Jean-Pierre Vegh, nabla, cosinus, Tjeulesbetes

From the other end of the table

Tjeulebetes (right) desperately begged for not being on this picture because he is mated on the next move ("je suis froid!")

Now marcusm and nabla are giving a less succesful try to the 10-board challenge


 

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