Dear members of the Stonewall, our team had a lot of problems in the competition, to the point that noweveryone of you shall prove yourselves against players way above at rating in each round from now on. But if rating decides games there is no need for us to play this round, that´s why you all should believe it´s possible to win, against all odds, and persevere. I will bring some info for your opponents.

BOARD 2: JDB-Colombian-Pro VS B4QUEEN:

Sorry i gtg in a few moments, so i will write this faster. Queen, i couldn´t watch many of your games in the league, because well, you played only 2 and one of them against a cheater. You seem to like tactical openings as well, going for sicilian and king´s indians setups, your opponent might bring you against a Najdorf which he will play either Bc4 or Be3 after you play a6, maybe look at some matches at chessgames.com on these positions, and again feel free to use me to test some ideas you might have.
BOARD 3: JAYVERN14 VS NYXX420:

Jayvern, since you usually starts with 1.e4 i took that to analyse, your opponent is a Caro-Kann player, playing almost every time against e4 in rapid and daily (which i used as filter). In move 2 i had to stop to look at the database because play a bunch o different stuff and uncommon moves on Caro-Kann.

But allow me to suggest something to you, since you are a more tactical player, and good with sequences, i believe its a good idea for you to aim at the Panov-Attack, shown bellow, You could train this with me to be aware of traps that you should avoid as white, One good news is that you opponent doesn´t face this so often. Besides that i think you should spend some more time before making moves, I know it´s hard sometimes to play a little slower, but i think you could have a better performance by doing this.

BOARD 5 VS MARDTALENTTROUPE:

Strategic, first things first, looking at your games, you should spend a little more time before making some moves, i know it´s hard sometimes to define which moves to play faster and which one to spend a little more time, but you have 15 minutes to play and using only 1/3.

Second, looking at your games (especially game 1), sometimes it takes a long time for you to put your king in safety, some opponents might punish that.

About your opponent this round, it´s not easy to predict, but for his recent games it should go like this (i´m assuming you play e4)

If you go to the scotch you will probably get an easy position to play (by what Mard plays), hard to go wrong and easy to castle, he has a slighly worst position but nothing bad about it.

If you go for the Italian i suggest you watch some videos about the Fried Liver attack

If he plays Bc4 instead just plays a normal italian game

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