I personally am not going to bother with another chess server for a while, because the tournament was based on the correspondence playing style of Little Golem, which makes it all much easier on us. The site owner has had some problems before. I guess he's not really an adept server administrator. Maybe he's hosting the site at his house, and he wasn't around while someone accidentally shut it off or started playing Quake 4 on it.

I'm just going to wait and see, this apparently happened before.

Looks like the site's down again, but this time it has a proper notice. So there should be nothing to worry about.

By the way, Polygon, I am greatly amused by your opening novelties. Playing 1. a4 ... 2. h4 is quite interesting (also because it almost guarantees me a sound victory unless you're a grandmaster and are simply giving me a handicap).

He's gonna be deep blue (deeply depressed) when I'm through with him.

Yeah, so, Littlegolem is being ridiculous and I can't get into it. So... I don't know what to do.

What's wrong with LittleGolem? It's a little slow sometimes but other than that there's nothing wrong with it, right? If you're considering dropping out, it's preferable you do it now, before you've played most of your matches, so that it's not so disturbing for the other players.

I won a relatively short game against BunnyMilk. http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=775230
Things were looking pretty even until 14... h6??, which ignores a mate threat by White. 14... Ne7 should have been the answer. The game ended immediately afterwards with 15. Qg4+ Kh8 16. Qf5 Qxa3 17. Qh7#. That's why it's important to look at the threats on the board before you make a move.

I also won against r, mostly because he suddenly started giving away pieces for free. http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=772257
I don't know what happened but I guess he got tired of playing. Starting from move 13, I've won (for free, not while exchanging) a rook (13), a knight (15), another knight (16), a pawn (17), a bishop (18), then on move 20 I exchanged a knight for a rook. By then, r had little more than just one bishop, which was pinned to the king and so couldn't move. He even ignored the subsequent mate threat made by an attack with a rook and a knight, so the game ended pretty quickly, after only 23 moves.

I think there's not much to be learned from this game unless you didn't already know that giving away pieces for free is usually bad.