Leaderboard and results thread.
 
Group 2

                  1     2     3     4     5      Score
1 jaume1959      X/X   1/1   1/1   1/1   1/1       8
2 kastelka       0/0   X/X   1/1   1/1   1/1       6
3 blue           0/0   0/0   X/X   1/1   0/1       3
4 TrencherKnight 0/0   0/0   0/0   X/X   0/0       0
5 Grim           0/0   0/0   0/1   1/1   X/X       3
 

All my games in this Event are underway

Grim - jaume1959 0-1
 

jaume1959 - Grim 1-0
 

jaume1959 - Kastelka 1-0
 

jaume1959 - blue 1-0
 

TrencherKnight - Kastelka 0-1
Kastelka- Grim 1-0
Grim - Kastelka 0-1

Kastelka - TrencherKnight 1- 0

TrencherKnight - jaume 1959 0-1
Kastelka - jaume1959 0-1

Kastelka's recent Black win over my White is one of the more enjoyable games I've lost in a long time. I wanted to share it here. I thought long and hard about 27. axb5 before making the move, but missed the follow-on checking of my king a few moves later. I knew I was on the brink of victory or defeat with that move, and it was only a few moves later ( ... Qh2) that I realized the end was nigh. Kastelka was kind enough to entertain additional moves on my part and not end the game, just so we could keep it going. :) Anyway, thought I'd share it.
 
-J
 

jaume1959 - Trencherknight 1-0

 
Should that be Trencherknight 0 - jaume1959 1?

Thanks Grim, it is the first game I posted is incorrect. I modified it today. Thanks.

Grim 1 - TrencherKnight 0
 
For my first and possibly only win ... :)

Kastelka- Blue 1-0

 
No worries, I just wanted to make sure you didn't have two games that were the same, or perhaps you had a Corr tourney game and got switched up.

Did my best to keep pieces even against a superior opponent, but Kastelka applied pressure with his pawns leading to a positional advantage that I couldn't handle.
 

Thank you Blue for your nice words, but you are a very strong player yourself. In this game I was a little bit lucky. Indeed, for a long time I thought the game was even, and it could have gone either way. Your bishop at g7 was very strong, and I just wanted either to exchange it for one of my knights, or even a rook, or to restrain its activity as much as possible. I was not quite familiar with the Benko Gambit, and I did not have time to study it too much, therefor my handling of the opening was awkward and not inspiring. However it helped a lot Wizard’s comments, though a little too late for me, and Jaume’s games.
 
Thank you Grim for this beautiful tourney.
 
Congratulations to Jaume for winning the tournament.

This is my last game in this tourney.
Thank you Grim.
 
Blue - Kastelka 0-1

Blue 0 - Grim 1