@citrinitas your random number is: 5292

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@FairlyRandom 17378

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@deagol voted c6 (weight 800)

@citrinitas voted c6 (weight 373)

@TenShino voted c6 (weight 5196)

@AndrewG voted Nxf2 (weight 390)

@JoshuaB voted Nef6 (weight 4143)

@A voted Nef6 (weight 85)

@harfe voted c6 (weight 6391)

Totals:

c6: 12760

Nxf2: 390

Nef6: 4228

To be chosen from a random draw 1-17378

1-12760 = c6

12761-13150 = Nxf2

13151-17378 = Nef6

Switching yet again to try disrupt any last minute snipers. !vote c6

!VOTE c6

So, 20 min before decision time, we got two generals accounted for and two missing. Might we be in Byzantium? Can we go to battle with this faulty strategy?

!VOTE Nef6

!vote Nef6

Changed my mind again. I really think our knight and white-squares bishop are huge against white’s king side. Both of them are imo worth more than the silly wandering white queen. This gives us way more options, even some mate lines if SFL3 gets sloppy.

@deagol !VOTE Nef6

Didn’t really look very closely at the position and this seems like a dandy enough move

!VOTE Nxf2

@AndrewG worst ever

!VOTE c6

Since we did not play Nf6, we can move the pawn now to scare off the queen.

After walking through the stockfish lines, c6 actually goes pretty aggro over the next few moves -- we can walk away with a rook or a queen, at least

!VOTE c6

@citrinitas how? Qd3 holds

@deagol Nxg3 and then it's a fork

Actually the only move that isn't a really nice fork is Qa5, that just turns into a slog

@citrinitas ok I see it now, but at the cost of our 2 best pieces, the immortal knight and the white-squared bishop

@deagol Still think mine was better, but I do agree this is more fun !vote c6

@citrinitas btw this line probably requires over 90% alignment in votes

Don’t vote for thus unless you liked Inception.

!vote Nef6