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rubrickscube

I just beat a Candidate Grandmaster in King of the Hill happy.png

Knoggin

Nice game! me and jaijith played a tournament earlier i might post some games from that. I pretty much pre-moved the double bishop fianchetto every game and came 9th out of 82 players. Jaijith won a game in 9 moves. I've noticed a lot of higher rated players never advance the king, and they always castle, i never castle, do you? 

rubrickscube

Nice - I'd love to see some of those games. 9th is pretty good. I got 4th (dang it, one away from third XD) in that tournament where I beat the Candidate, but that was only a swiss tournament. Dang, 9 moves is nice. 

As for castling, I only castle in about 40% of my games. Usually I only castle against players my rating or higher, but most of the time I instead move my queen away from queenside up one place. So for example, after I had set up my initial defense, if I was white, I would most likely move my King to F2. Then I can move my queen and both rooks freely across the back rank. Castling locks my king in too much. 

rubrickscube

This was literally the hardest King of the Hill tournament I have been in. Look at how many points first and second got in less than half an hour omg.

rubrickscube

Literally 24 out of the 29 players were 1500+ surprise.png