Hello, and welcome to the First Annual Ric Olie OT.com Chess Championship. I'm sorry we were forced to join this match already in progress, but the weather report ran long. Something about hail or some other phenomenon.

I've got to say, this Championship Match is bringing us a clash of undisputed titans of the OT.com chess landscape. vote_for_palpatine stood on a mountaintop and declared that he was willing to take on all who dare oppose him. And Warbler fought heroically through an amassed army of zero others to rise to the challenge. So far, it's been a death struggle rarely witnessed in these parts of the forum, or any forum for that matter.

As the action resumes, Warbler has just said "D2-C4 D6-D7" which is very bold move on his part. VFP seems a bit rattled, probably due to Warbler using C4. Explosives were thought to have been outlawed by the Geneva Virtual Reality Chess Convention of 1968, but Warbler seems to have other ideas.

Now...let's get back to the action.