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2012 King's Cup Commentary: Round 8

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We were scheduled to start at 10:30, and had at least two-thirds of the players present at that time. By about 10:40, almost all players were present, so no one had to play with too short a clock.

I spent this round working on debugging a network issue, which in the end turned out to be a crashed D-Link DES-1016D Ethernet switch. After working our way down the usual suspects with Ravee Joradol (Windows software issue, Windows wanting a reboot, damaged Ethernet cable, OS/X server system software failure), before I realized that the switch's blinkenlights were the only thing about it that was working.

Charnrit Khongthanarat (THA) and Tawan Paepolsiri (THA) came close to scoring 1100 points between them with a 611-486 win for Charnrit.