Only christmas hero I got from 9 tickets is Carol (while still missing all others, even the 3 stars). Last month, my 30x Valhalla pull yielded dupe Horghall as the only 5 star this month, an Atlantis 10x got me dupe Quintus as only 5 star. I finish most events (aiming for 10000 - 5000 - 10000 in monthly) and quests to collect whatever coins are available. I finished S2 hard mode and in S3, I am up to date in normal and hard mode, too.
I could not draw any S2, S3, event or seasonal 5 star hero, despite doing lots of pulls. The remaining 7 are HOTMs: Kunchen, Ranvir x2, Malosi, Noor, Zulag, and Glenda. During this time, I amassed 47 5 star heroes (mainly from TC20), 40 of which are S1 heroes (only one still missing is Kadilen). g2-g4 on the first move and immediately getting ahead in the g-pawn race.F2P player since July 2017. g4 manoeuvre and employed pushing his own g-pawn 2 squares and also what great foresight White showed by prophylactically pushing 1. This may all be correct, but if 16.g5 would have been good for Black, it shows how wise Black could have been to have learnt from seeing White's 1. Basically Black is better until he has the unlucky idea of 16.h5?Īfter something like 16.g5 white may not be directly losing, but he is just watching Black dictate the play due to the very poor g2 bishop. We have looked at the game with Spyros and a few other greek players some decades ago. It could be possibly said IM pfren has a point, but since he spelt habit in a way that makes it look similar to rabbit, I admit that I am a little Skembris.I mean, skeptical. Ivkov was the first World Junior Champion in 1951 and played in the 1965 Candidates tournament (losing to Bent Larsen) but, perhaps most notably of all, married a former "Miss Argentina". But let's be topical by giving a game by IM pfren's Greek compatriot Spyridon Skembris against GM Borislav Ivkov. g4 and another world top-ten player, Jonathan Speelman, with 1. Well, it didn't do too badly for Basman, beating world top-ten player, John Nunn, with 1. Playing like that is a bad habbit, which won't help you improve at chess- quite the opposite. It does not matter if it loses by force or not, or even how much worse white is after "perfect" play from both sides. A win would give Kerkhof =1st place in the tournament but even a half point would give Kerkhof his 3rd and last IM title. In the last round, FM Van Kerkhof (2371 FIDE) faced Basman (2313 FIDE). e4 g5 once as Black so his opponents knew he was likely to play the Grob each round. In the first 8 rounds, IM Basman played 1. This was a one game per day 10-player round-robin tournament (held 20-28 October), played at classical times controls so the opponents had plenty of time to prepare for their games using engine analysis. The Grob simply wont take you far in that environment at Master level.Īs a very rare weapon in your repertoire, with your opponent not expecting it, you may do ok, the non-critical lines arent quite THAT terrible for White.Ī counter example of that argument: at the Haarlem Masters 2018 tournament, IM Basman was invited to play. This is the age where you can look up the repertoire of any strong player in seconds and have engines in the cloud tell you the best counter at depth 40 to so many openings. Basman has dedicated his career to defending the grob and its black counterpart but 2019 chess is a different beast to when he was at his creative peak.