Ed, I appreciate your compliment regarding my playing ability and am delighted that you have found any of my games worthy of archiving. I still have trouble with the suggestion that there might be cheating involved, though. I realize that I'm not the tournament director, but I would suggest simply awarding the prize to the winner as was promised at the outset. There's been no cheating. I fail even to see how a player could benefit by throwing a game in a winner-takes-all tournament.

Perhaps some background on my playing method would be illuminating. I almost never resort to analyzing over a board (electronic or physical); the most I allow myself is a sheet of paper to record moves to help me visualize the variations. This, of course, makes me more subject to the possibility of making an egregious blunder. My 11-move loss to Caissus was due to just such a blunder: Nothing more, nothing less.