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| From | Message | Posted by ccmcacollister
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7/08/2008
14:43:15
Play online chess |  Subject: Blitz:a poor gambit & misc other comments
Message:
Hello, I have not seen a blitz thread recently. So here's one. You don't have to stick my area
of comment on it. Post other blitz thoughts, games, ettiquette, good, bad, amusing, or a
Maytag washing machine ... all these things can come from a blitz game. Or wait, was that
from a Black Hole? Well close enough, we'll lump it in. Here's my peeve for the day ....
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You are playing along, after mutual Hello's were exchanged at the onset or there abouts. Find
yourself in a winning position coming out of the opening, but already a minute and half down
on time ... suddenly your opponent decides it would be nice to know where you are from, the
annual rainfall there, and name of your firstborn.
So okay, am I just getting grumpy? Maybe its just a matter of they figure "the games about
over" lets talk now. I can understand that. But it makes me wonder . . . especially if I have
two minutes left and it gets chatty.
Should I have a Notepad or perhaps Paste set up beforehand to send in this situation?
Should it say, "Hey I love to chat, let's do some PM's after this game, or just stay on and chat
here! Right now, I got to play." or would I be better with:
"Ja, Hi Hi. Hello hey. How today are you? " "Do speaks you some eastern Irutuskan?"
"Goodf good? Ja or no? No more Englis I have" "Potensky andrejez undta das hasta faux
tempus gleeban ola' schach de monkay?" .
Or option #3 ...
Oh I love to chat! I am from America, Iowa, 4th hill north of Berry Creek! Where you from?
How far is that from you? I have played 20 years, when did you start? Did your Mom teach
you? What do you do? Do you like this opening? What's it called? What time is it at your
house? Why do you like Chess? What other games have you played? Where else do you play?
What are your ratings there? Who do you know there? If I visit you do they Pepsi there? Who
are your top ten chess players of alltime? Why do you think so? You are good, I bet you playt
tournaments! What happened at your last tournament? Do you know how that 3 times draw
works? I don't get it ... can you explain? Briefs or boxers? Taco's or Pizza? Britney or Kristina?
Miller's or Bud? BTW
Are you are Girl? How old are you, 21? Can you prove that? Or did you mean "12" like Ten
plus Two, LOL ...haha
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You DID ... um lol !?
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GAME ABANDONED, YOU HAVE WON
| Posted by tag1153
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7/08/2008
15:26:55
Play online chess | craig
Message:
It's been far to long since the peanut gallery has praised your chess dementia. Well done yet again...still laughing at that one;)
| Posted by ionadowman
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7/09/2008
05:06:39
Play online chess | Taco or pizza
Message:
"Buddy's" Pizza, Detroit, 1979. Still remember them after nearly 30 years...
Cheers
Ion
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Bobby Fischer Against the World (movie review) — A riveting documentary about the troubled US chess champion and his battle with Boris Spassky. Liz Garbus's gripping documentary about the life and times of the troubled American chess genius Bobby Fischer asks a number of questions. Did Bobby's missing dad create an emotional void which was neurotically filled with chess? Is there something in the game that encourages immersive obsession and ultimate madness? Would Fischer have gone the same way if he had been a plumber or a welder? And why is it that antisemitism is the bigotry of choice for mentally ill people? Non-chessers like me are already basically aware of the second and third acts of this American life. The middle act was ...
Posted by chessnovice
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7/09/2008
12:47:37
Play online chess | ...
Message:
I give them short, quick answers.
USA. Not far. Not long ago. No. Student. Yes. Dunno. Noon. It's fun. All sorts. Nowhere. Non-applicable. Non-applicable. Yes. Fischer^10. He rocks. Sometimes. I lost. Yup. Can't.
Boxers, pizza, Cristina, neither, no, old, can't, didn't.
People get fed up talking with me pretty quickly. :p
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On Chess: Game wading into waves of change — Like so much in contemporary life, chess - like an onrushing river - is characterized by constant change. Bobby Fischer had the equivalent of a dozen or more doctorates in chess. He studied and assimilated - like no one else before him - what seemed at the time to be a massive classical chess heritage. Grandmasters today have access to a minimum database of more than 4 million games, far eclipsing the chess legacy that Fischer inherited - and that database is increasing at an accelerating rate. Setting up the pieces, playing through a game or games and reviewing relevant positions are painfully time-consuming. Fortunately, chess software and the computer screen speed ...
Posted by ionadowman
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7/09/2008
15:34:24
Play online chess | Chatty blitz players...
Message:
... Generally I would be concentrating so heavily on the game it would take several moves before any message would impress itself on my consciousness. OK, it wiould take a while for me to notice. Now, being pretty unhandy with the keyboard, it would also take a long time for me to couch any kind of response. So anyone wanting to chat would have to be v-e-r-y p-a-t-i-e-n-t. Quite a few weren't, but most were. Of course we didn't get to say much...
Cheers,
Ion
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After Decades in Top Ranks, a Shot at the Title, Finally — Chess players usually reach their peak in their 20s, so how is it that the grandmaster Boris Gelfand is getting his first crack at becoming world chess champion when he is 43? Gelfand, whose Candidates Matches victory in May earned him the right to play Viswanathan Anand for the title next year, said he was encouraged by the example of Viktor Korchnoi. When he was in his late 40s, Korchnoi, now 80, played for the chess championship twice. “Korchnoi is kind of inspiration for me and for all of us,” Gelfand said in a recent telephone interview, quoting Korchnoi’s advice that “if you want to improve, you have to learn new things all the time.” Gelfand said he changed his opening repertory before ...
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