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THINK EPISODE 4

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EPISODE 4

It is high time for a episode 4. I am little sick right now, but blog must go on nevertheless. Hope you will not get sick by reading this
CC HAS BEGUN
The most important and prestigious tournament in THINK has finally begun. So far quite a few games were played, so i will try to cover as much of them as possible. Right now we are in group phase, so even if somebody lose, it's not the end of the world for them yet.
FIRST BLOOD
First game that result of was submitted in the right way was greedydragon vs BlueMeeple13. It was a
sicilian defense resembling a dragon setup. It was decided by a nice tactical shot on move 11 that won the game for a greedy dragon. It is good pattern to remember for blitz, so bundesliga players should pay attention.

https://lichess.org/fxoKSfgt/black

AGADMATOR SHOULD BE PROUD
Next up we have evens gambit game beetwen TheRoyalFork and Pi-Addict111. This game had a lot of turning points, but i quite like that from move 13 to move 17 black queen went to e5, down to a1, back to e5 and jumped to h5 at the end. Full pack man mode. Now there were options for white to avoid that pacman queen. But let's just be glad that it happened.
https://lichess.org/24WNb0UD/black#1

BRAVE KNIGHT
In the game LoLLLLLLLLLL ( i always write too many llllls here) vs dpurgin we can observe nice positional play from dpurgin, doubling and isolating opponents pawns. But at the very end (move 31) advantage could have slipped from him, because he trapped his own knight at the bottom of the board. Now in the game knight end up forking king and rook, but i am sure there is an alternative universe in which this game was a draw or maybe even a win for white,
https://lichess.org/zEcaW1no#1

UPSET WIN
In the game out of mind vs NotCharlesMingus there was around 150 points difference. And yet NotCharlesMingus managed to come up victorious. On move 12 white wanted to get a juicy fork, but instead queen got disconnected with a knight. After that all that was left was to seal a deal
https://lichess.org/HgqYkDfq#1

LEADER DOWN
Last game that will be covered in this blog is Rankrotten vs Greylife. Rankrotten played his beloved London System, but things got a little grey for him. Greylife got pawns advantage and was pushing from both sides. Rankrotten was fighting for a draw as long as possible, but sometimes the game is just lost.
https://lichess.org/IHdkXPyo#1

BONUS
That was it for CC games. But there is a little prize for reading up to this point. There is forum game being played, of which rule are to post a word that is associated with the previous one and does not contain any letters from the last one. Here is the little chain that was created so far:
HIGH-JUMP-START-OPENING-TRACK-SINGLE-WORD-GAME-POLO-MINT-ROYAL-HIGHNESS-YOUR-SELF-WORTH-SAVING-MONEY-TALKS-OVER-THINKING-FOWARD-PUSH-MOVE-BACKWARDS-MOMENTUM-PHYSICS-BOREDOM-APATHY-INDIFFERENCE-HAUGHTY-DESPISE-ABHOR-DISGUST
Link to the team -
https://lichess.org/team/think