This is what's wrong with einstein!

Hey, check out my latest game of einstein:

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1355422&nmove=1

Any tips on how I can improve my play? ;)

(btw this is not a serious critique of the game. I enjoy playing it a lot, but I don't think it is suited for top-play. Especially not 1-point matches.

Fantastic performance by Micco:

Straight forward to the win, what a home run.

Congratulations!

And in this sense Ewn is similar to life:

Things happen. Don't complain about elements

of chance. Stand up again and look for the next

opportunity.

Ingo.

Hehe, very inspirational words :)

Don't feel too bad. According to my back of the envelope calculation nearly 1 out of every 500 games should play out this way. :)

Yeah -- This has happened to me as well. It's neat, and luckily doesn't come up too much.

> how I can improve my play

Thnikkaman, this time you played perfect. Usually there are more chances for bad moves. Just play more often...

pgadey wrote:

> luckily doesn't come up too much.

Right, it is a seldom event. But it is fully

intended - a part of Ewn's character.

Here in the forum we even have a thread called

"pearls of luck". I am still waiting for an event

like the following: two players meeting in a

tournament, one rated 1300, the other one 1800.

> They play best of 5; and the favourite is winning

> games 1 and 2 convincingly. But then our 1300-friend

> gets a lucky streak:

> winning one game in three moves (bringing the score to 1-2)

> winning another game in three moves (2-2 now)

> and finally winning one more game in 3 moves; claiming 3-2 overall win.

> That would be luck!

Ingo.

@Michael X: I think you missed Thnikkaman's smiley. His comment gave me a nice chuckle.

@Ingo: The back of my envelope is getting crowded, but 500^3 = 125,000,000 so, unfortunately, I think there is a better chance of winning just about any lottery played anywhere in the world than seeing your very cute and funny event happening.