Excuses for not winning

[Tony Thomas]

Here are my excuses for Romi not winning the tournament..I thought I should make this little early instead of whining after I wipe my nose on the floor..

1) Slow hardware
2) Bad Operator
3) unremovable picture of goat in the room that makes Romi lose her concentration
4) Last minute betas
5) untuned book
6) Unattractive neighbour next door..
7) Aria Giovanni
8) and the list goes on..

[Zach Wegner]

2) Bad Operator
7) Aria Giovanni

LOL!

Here's mine:
1. Hundred-year-old book
2. Bugs
3. Sleeping in for the tournament (let's hope not)
4. Accidentally forgetting to cheat by running Rybka instead of my own engine
5. Round pairings/colors
6. Statistical insignificance
7. Chess is basically solved anyway
8. I wanted to lose
9. Listening to music, bogging down the hardware
10. ZCT is better at shorter/longer time controls
11. The opponents were cheating
12. Vas(t) conspiracy

[Tony Thomas]

2) Bad Operator
7) Aria Giovanni

LOL!

(let's hope not)
4. Accidentally forgetting to cheat by running Rybka instead of my own engine
11. The opponents were cheating

I thought about 4, but that wouldnt really help as I only have the free rybka beta. Then I thought about running Hiarcs 12, but what would be the point? Goat would disown me if I were to do something like that..

In every single game that I lost my opponents were cheating. They were using moves that I didnt know about..

When Romi loses she isnt actually losing, she is actually letting the opponent win on purpose.

If I go to bed now, then I can get about 5 hrs of sleep..I dont know if that sleeping excuse would fly with me..because I am online almost 24 hrs a day, or so it seems.

[Tony Thomas]

I think I might have an excuse after all. Due to all the excitement I was unable to sleep. So if I fell asleep in the middle of the rounds, I guess that would be an excuse. Someone please tell me some goat/Chuck Norris jokes. Dont even try the internet jokes (about Chuck/goat), I have heard them all..

[Michael Sherwin]

Here are my excuses for Romi not winning the tournament..I thought I should make this little early instead of whining after I wipe my nose on the floor..

1) Slow hardware
2) Bad Operator
3) unremovable picture of goat in the room that makes Romi lose her concentration
4) Last minute betas
5) untuned book
6) Unattractive neighbour next door..
7) Aria Giovanni
8) and the list goes on..

I get 90% the blame anyway! I guess that leaves you off the hook. You make it sound as though all Romi will do is loose. I am hopeing for at least a draw against Joker. BTW, you should have sent Goat to distract her opponents.