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...
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.
Baaaaaaack