Hex evening in Oslo

If there are any Hex-players who happen to be in Oslo thursday January 24th, you might wish to join in on our little Hex get-together. Frode, Jan-Arild, Taral and I will be playing - and maybe one or two other people from Oslo.

I know the chances for any of you participating is slim, but let me know if you are so lucky as to be in Oslo this evening! :-)

I would love to come, but I am unable to make the trip. Happy playing though :)

I would gladly accept your kind invitation, but unfortunately my personal Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been grounded. :(

Congrats for the championship by the way, Marius! I hope you enjoy the games :)

Wow, that would be great! Alas, completely impractical. :(

And now it's already over. Frode, Jan Arild, Taral, Harald and me met yesterday for a small tournament, where everyone played everyone once. In the end, Frode and I each got 3 points, Taral and Jan Arild got 2 points, while Harald got 0 points. It was a nice evening, and I hope it won't be too long until next time.

We played games of 20 minutes, with the count down starting after 3 seconds. (Frode had a name for this kind of time management, but I don't recall it. Sarkowski time, or something like that?)

Shortest game (in time): Jan Arild must have made an early blunder in the game against me, because the game seemed rather hopeless for him after a very short time, and trying the only viable path, it was soon obvious that it was lost.

Longest game (in time): With less than a minute left for both players, Frode had a winning position against Jan Arild. Pressed for time, he made a serious blunder. However, Jan Arild, equally pressed for time, failed to exploit the error, and Frode ended up winning the match after all.

My perhaps most interesting game was against Taral. I wish I could reconstruct the position where I spent around eight minutes thinking before making my move. It was a complex situation, and I could see no winning paths, but it somehow felt like there should be one. I ended up losing that one. In my game against Frode, it seemed to me like he had the best position at an early point, but we got into an intriguing endgame, which I won - and I think at that point, it would have been won regardless of Frode's moves, but obviously I don't know for sure.

Just too bad we weren't more players - you should have been there! :-)

Congratulations! It sounds like you had fun.

Maybe I'll move to Europe some day. What is the job market like there for IT?

We did indeed have fun. As for the IT job market, I think it's good in Norway, but I'm guessing most of southern Europe has high unemployment in most sectors. So it you move, come to Norway! :-)

But whether you move or not, at least please rejoin the next Hex championships here on LG - we miss you!