When the cat is away...

An enjoyable blitz tonight with a relatively even field. With FM Baron away Dimitry Partsi & Simon Schmidt shared 1st place. I enjoyed the event; felt like I had at least some chance in every game. Dimitry Partsi's play in time trouble recently has been a joy to behold: squeezing absolutely everything out of the position has become his speciality. In the following position there had been much jostling for position, many tricks, traps and draws offered in the previous 487 moves;) With 4 seconds left on the clock mighty Partsi missed the brilliancy Kc1 which would have kept the contest alive, blundering with Kc3??

White to play, Partsi - Cavezza 1/2 - 1/2
After Kc3?? I found the brilliant Re3!! drawing the game.

Being serious for a moment though, I have no problem with people taking opponents out on time in drawn positions. In blitz, both players start the game knowing they have 5 minutes and 0 seconds to get the game to a technically "completed" position, not a drawish one. Knowing that at the start, my view is we can't have any complaints about it at the end. That said, I get that it can be annoying too!

Results: 

#	Name	Score	Tie.	New Rating
1	Dimitry Partsi	7½	37½	2115 9
2	Simon Schmidt	7½	37½	1968 60
3	Jack Puccini	7	38	2152 6
4	Leo Nguyen	6½	38½	2036 4
5	Chris Kolak	4½	40½	2020 30
6	Andrew Fletcher	4½	40½	1771 18
7	Paul Cavezza	3½	41½	1721 7
8	Zheng Sun	2	43	1742 24
9	Daniel Dobos	2	43	1618 4
10	Elizabeth Warren	0	45	1367 10