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    Posted: June 04 2012 at 16:02
What move was it? Your games are a bit slow, you know LOL, and I didn’t see your comment until now. Anyway, all your moves look perfectly all right to me, like 14. … Nxe5 and 18. … d5.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2012 at 02:18
Sure hope I'm sober enough to have made a reasonable move.  Guess I will find out tomorrow morning (read:afternoon) when I look at it again
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2012 at 15:59
He would never have allowed you to get three queens. Jay is too good a chess player for that. Besides, polygamy is illegal in Canada too, isn’t it?

But I like the way you sacrificed quality for position. Your pawns became extremely strong, and at a crucial point you put your bishops to play.

Now you’re giving redcat a hard time. His pawn at d3 is probably singing, "You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths are solemnly directed straight at you..."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2012 at 15:16
Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

Thanks, Jay and Colin. I really enjoyed your game.


For a while there I was hoping for 3 queens Cool

That little dongle with the pawns in the middle caused a lot of trouble, eh?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2012 at 13:59
When I was in University there was this guy who would play up to 10 guys at one time  looking in the opposite direction of the board. He'd have another guy calling out his opponent's moves. Then he would tell his guy what his move was and his guy would move the pieces for him. I played him several times and the b*****d  kicked my ass all the time. I only saw one guy almost beat him. A girl almost beat him as well. We called the guy Mr. Spock. he was from Eastern Europe somewhere. I have a friend from Hungary who I refused to play because it was a waste of time because I knew I,d get the crap knocked out of me. He learned the game at the age of 5 or something ridiculous like that.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2012 at 13:40
Thanks, Jay and Colin. I really enjoyed your game.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2012 at 15:55
Very interesting game. I have to log out now, but may the best one win.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2012 at 14:20

Dang, I made up some ground but going to have to make a decision here.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2012 at 12:51
I always try to predict my opponent with the conditional moves, but this is about the longest streak I've had going LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2012 at 12:48
Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

Ok this is going to get interesting. Up an exchange but you get a massively advanced pawn.
 
 
 
Sandbagging is intentionally losing a few games to lower your rating so you can play in a lower bracket.
 
In USCF chess there is a rule called the rating floor where, for example, once you get to 1500 your rating can never go below 1300. This is to prevent sandbagging at tournaments where money is at stake (which is most adult tournaments.) The little thing I do on Fridays consists of quads. Everyone puts in $20 and whoever wins each quad gets 70 back, the club keeps 10. (Or something like that)


Alright, gotcha.  I'd be too proud to purposely drop my rating.

And yeah, I figured I'd try something new
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2012 at 08:28
Ok this is going to get interesting. Up an exchange but you get a massively advanced pawn.
 
 
 
Sandbagging is intentionally losing a few games to lower your rating so you can play in a lower bracket.
 
In USCF chess there is a rule called the rating floor where, for example, once you get to 1500 your rating can never go below 1300. This is to prevent sandbagging at tournaments where money is at stake (which is most adult tournaments.) The little thing I do on Fridays consists of quads. Everyone puts in $20 and whoever wins each quad gets 70 back, the club keeps 10. (Or something like that)


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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2012 at 02:39
ahaha my trap on that Ahmad guy worked perfectly
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2012 at 19:31
What's sandbagging?

Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

I thought I was developing an even game with Colin and then already made an oversight that loses me a move.
 
Grrrr....
 
Friggin English Opening.


It's still pretty close to even, but you've got a couple important decisions to make pretty soon I think.

Better you than me Cool


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2012 at 16:16

The tournaments are hard. I lose track of where I am in a game and make more silly mistakes. Also so many matches going on at once can be annoying.

I did really well in only one of the 10 or so chess.com tourneys I've been in.

Also I think some people sandbag to win.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:18
It's kind of annoying when some of the tournament games never seem to end. Sleepy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2012 at 13:16
I thought I was developing an even game with Colin and then already made an oversight that loses me a move.
 
Grrrr....
 
Friggin English Opening.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2012 at 12:15
I've had like 3 games in a row where people have let me get away with king/queen forks. Lucky me Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2012 at 01:47
I love to play it but I'm REALLY BAD at it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2012 at 10:13

It always feels ugly when a game gets really one-sided. The fun of the game is the struggle where it could go either way at any second. This game still had a lot of uncertainty up until the mating sequence, and would have still been up for grabs if he'd made the Qd6+ move.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2012 at 09:28
Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

There are defenses to the coming fork.
 
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I expected
 
22. .... Qd6+ forking king and knight with a chance to get the material back.
 
with
 
23. Re5 and then g6 would have left me in trouble
 
 
 
Ended ugly.


Ended ugly? I think it was a very nice checkmate where your pieces collaborated perfectly. But I agree with you that 22. … Qd6+ would have been a much better move by Vompatti.
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