The seventh stage of the "Van Kanigem" tournament.

Looks like the most challenging map of all the tournaments we've had... We should have made the tournament open and invited super-heavyweights, but a good idea comes too late.

In what sense? In my opinion, Kanighem's tournament is open to everyone. Just play :) Whether you're a super-heavyweight or a super-lightweight. When you talk about Horne, do you mean his achievements in offline or online play? If it's offline, then of course he should be included in the tournaments, but it seems he's already missing out on that. Well, I think this won't be the last tournament here ;)

Added 7 minutes later

"Should I keep trying the fourth option?" - of course :), get the maximum.... ;)

:) Maybe it's better to aim for the minimum. No, you can manage it in a day :) IMHO, or maybe in two. But I'm not an expert at tweaking computers for specific builds, because I don't even know what needs to be done for that, even in theory. The option of replaying from the beginning doesn't appeal to me :)