waustad Member since Aug-26-07 · Last seen Nov-20-09 I was USCF 1739 the last time I played tournament chess. I always preferred playing blitz. I quit playing tournament chess when I hurt my back. Sitting on those horrid folding metal chairs at a weekend Swiss for hours at a time was no longer an option. Here is a fun game I played years ago: NN vs William Austad Offhand game Ohio University Baker Center (the original one) 197? 1.) d4 Nf6 2.) c4 g6 4.) Nc3 Bg7 4.) e4 d6 5.) g2 Nbd7 6.) Nge2 c5 7.) d5 Ne5 8.) b3?? Nf3#

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Nov-20-09 World Cup (2009)    waustad: So this starts tomorrow at 5AM EST? I'll see some of it.      Nov-19-09 Capablanca vs Janowski, 1911   waustad: Why are you calling this a Colle System game? Yes, there is an early e3, but the typical c3, Bd3, Nbd2 leading to an eventual break with e4 is what I think of as the Colle System.      Nov-19-09 T Nyback vs U Von Herman, 2009   waustad: It tells something about the strength of the team when Tomi Nyback is playing 4th board.      Nov-19-09 Menchik vs F Schubert, 1928    waustad: <pb>This one was easy to get. The impossible ones involve pop culture.      Nov-18-09 Kibitzer's Café    waustad: It looks like the Khanty-Mansiysk games will start at 5AM EST if I read the site right. 1500 local time with GMT+5 to GMT-5. Oh well, it will probably be more fun for the folks in Europe.      Nov-18-09 Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2009    waustad: zatara's lines look a lot like what I've been playing against my computer. Time also was hanging over Mamedyarov's head if I recall from watching it live on Chessbomb and/or the official site. With 42 rounds it is hard to remember all of those details for sure.      Nov-17-09 Stefan Mohr   waustad: His FIDE card says 2413. Where did the 2022 come from?      Nov-17-09 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2009    waustad: This one is posted twice and is still not complete, it seems.      Nov-17-09 World Blitz Championship (2009)    waustad: Carlsen won and Anand drew, so he's now back up by 1/2.      Nov-14-09 Leko vs Carlsen, 2009    waustad: Now he has his own dancing rook!

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Jul-14-09    zarg: I have some interesting news for you, we are visiting Meråker now, where my wife has her roots. Her mother, not only knew about Austad, but she had an aunt (Olive Stuberg), who was married with Reidar Austad. She remembered, their children used to get presents from family in America. Reidar's father was a ship owner, and Reidar and Olivie had 5 children, all older than my wife's mother. Jul-21-09    zarg: <Family rumor is that during the second world war, the building with all of the records was blown up by the Germans, so there would be no record of his birth (in 1869)> I don't think all the records are gone, if you try the DIS database: http://www.disnorge.no/genress/inde... you get access to Norwegian population census records in 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900 (the 1910 records will be released soon): http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-wi... Also, DIS provide access to digitally scanned church books: http://www.disnorge.no/genress/ut.p... That's a lot of research material for those interested in genealogy. I'm not quite sure if their chat service http://www.disnorge.no/irc/index.php is only open for the DIS members, but you can look at the membership terms yourself: http://www.disnorge.no/DISadmin/inn...		Donate to Worldwide Chess Learning

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