waustad Member since Aug-26-07 · Last seen May-18-13 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, since 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 3.) Nc3 Bg7 4.) e4 d6 5.) g3 Nbd7 6.) Nge2 c5 7.) d5 Ne5 8.) b3?? Nf3# click for larger view Some useful links: Chessbomb: http://livechess.chessdom.com/site/ 365chess: http://www.365chess.com/ Chessbase: http://www.chessbase.com/ Chess-results: http://chess-results.com/ FIDE ratings: http://ratings.fide.com/ World clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclo... Diaz cartoons: http://www.chessvibes.com/cartoons USCF ratings: http://www.uschess.org/content/blog... Tactical puzzles: http://chesstempo.com/chess-tactics... Chess ticker: http://www.chess-international.de/ Games from the Frauenbundesliga: http://teleschach.de/bundesliga/bl-... Norway chess site: http://norwaychess.com/en/ M60MG: Game Collection: My 60 Memorable Games (Bobby Fischer) Austrian chess site: http://www.chess.at/

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May-18-13 Jon Ludvig Hammer   waustad: It probably wasn't a lot of fun, but playing against a field that strong could give him a lot of information as to where he needs work if he wants to play professionally and challenge the best players. Vallejo - Pons anounced his retirement (which doesn't seem to have stopped his ...      May-18-13 Eva Moser   waustad: She drew with WIM Kopinits in the first round. It was a strange game for me since it several times I stopped to look at the position and formulate a plan and saw later that Eva M was following my line. I suppose that many of these were fairly obvious based on the pawn structure (how      May-18-13 Karjakin vs Topalov, 2013    waustad: From official site: In case of shared first place, there will be 2 blitz games (4min + 2sec) to decide the winner. If it’s still tie: Armageddon game where white has 5 min+2 sec increment and black has 4 min+2 sec increment with draw odds      May-17-13 waustad chessforum   waustad: http://live.chess.at/chessladies/ Vienna Chess Ladies live site.      May-16-13 Areshchenko vs A Moroz, 2001   waustad: Another game in this line is: http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi... 15.) Kh1 hasn't done well in the small sample I've seen. I started looking because I didn't know the 6.) a4 line so I'm no expert on this.      May-16-13 Natalia Pogonina    waustad: I type many more posts than I send. Occasionally while in my cups my internal editor forgets to tell me "nuke that."      May-16-13 Simen Agdestein    waustad: I suspect <Tabanus> nailed it and I'm sorry I started the whole discussion.      May-16-13 European Individual Championships (2013)    waustad: Congrats to Kreisl on the GM norm.      May-14-13 Karjakin vs Nakamura, 2013    waustad: They will be out on an island today. It was the first event to sell out, since everybody had to fit on the boat trip and get fed on the island. If I recall correctly from the site, the island looks a lot like Buchart(sp?) Gardens in BC. The pictures are amazing.      May-14-13 Anastazia Karlovich   waustad: More than just eye candy she does a good job as a chess journalist. Compare her to Simen Agdestein for example and, at least in English, she is much more appropriately restrained. I've heard that in Russian she can be nastier, but I can't vouch for that.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 4 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-27-12    jessicafischerqueen: Hello- I'm very interested to hear your singing and original music? Do you have any of it uploaded on the internet? Can you pass any to me in an email? jessicafischerqueen@yahoo.com Apr-03-12    wordfunph: <waustad> happy 62nd birthday! Apr-06-12    Albertan: Here is an article which will answer some of your questions regarding the message you left on Natalia Pogonina's memberpage at Chessgames: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Apr-21-12    technical draw: Thanks for those links <waustad>. Bayreuth sure puts on a spectacular (and expensive) production. But still Lauritz Melchior sounds great in those old recordings. Apr-21-12    technical draw: BTW have you noticed that in every Wagner video on YouTube there is always a debate on Wagner's antisemitism in the comments? You have to dig deep to find comments about the singers. Apr-22-12    technical draw: It's also strange that one of the most recognizable pieces of music is Wagner's Bridal March from Lohengrin. It's supposed to be taboo in Jewish weddings. Most people would say they never heard of Wagner but have heard the wedding march dozens of times! Jun-18-12    waustad: I've just started a collection of Austrian Chess games. This is not for the old time greats like Schlechter or Gruenfeld or others from the old Austro-Hungarian empire like Steinitz and many others. This is about Austrian chess now. I've been playing through games of Eva Moser and Markus Ragger and will add more as time goes on. Jul-25-12    LoveThatJoker: <waustad: A few years later he actually looked like himself.> I know what you mean! Thanks for posting on LoveThatForum, it's good to hear from you, and please don't let too much time before you come back and post there again! LTJ Aug-04-12    waustad: I don't know if this expression is local or more widespread, but William J Foo really has to play Roman Bar Sep-10-12    waustad: There is even a collection of games with the Camperdown, or as he calls it Anglo-Dutch, opening: Game Collection: A10 English : Anglo-Dutch Defense [White] Sep-16-12    waustad: Oh my. I finally got it together to close the bar playing chess with all commers at the place where I did this with regularity during the Nixon administration. It was fun. If nothing else it reminds me that most people are much weaker than the folks I run into on the net either are or claim to be. I brought a clock, but came to the conclusion that it wasn't necessary. Sep-16-12    coolchess1: You are one of the best kibitzers here at chessgames.com. I like your posts and respects your views. Wish you all the best. Sep-30-12    waustad: Here's a chess oriented XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1112/ Oct-04-12    mckmac: Greetings from Station Square, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand. I thank you for that. Do you ever play chess on the internet. I am a member of FICS and play casually at ChessHere. Would you be interested in having a game sometime? mcmckinnell@gmail.com Oct-08-12    hoodrobin: <you've been on a lot from the look of it.> You too. ;) Thanks! Oct-08-12    hoodrobin: <technical draw: Wagner's Bridal March from Lohengrin. It's supposed to be taboo in Jewish weddings.> Also, all Wagner was taboo in Israel for decades after the ww2. Enjoy lots of good operatic music btw! Oct-24-12    Phony Benoni: <Waustad> I probably don't do anything different when submitting games than you do, since it will sometimes take weeks or months for some of my submissions to be added as well Personally, I try to remain patient. It's a lot of work to run a site like this, and there are projects which the majority of members would consider far more important than adding games from long ago. There's plenty of other stuff to do while I'm waiting. I find it amusing to watch someone complain bitterly that the game they submitted last week isn't added yet, when I've had several hundred games in the pipeline for a month or two. Yes, I guess I am weird. Nov-05-12    waustad: Years ago I wanted to either post my notes online or burn CDs and charge $1 over the cost to students in my class. I didn't much care if they pirated them. The price of textbooks is offensive, so I was looking for alternatives. When talking to an acquisitions editor from Kendall/Hunt I was talked into turning my website into a book, mainly due to worries about copyright and such. My only gripe is that I was told that I would own the copyright, but when the contract came (it was delayed by about a month bouncing around OUs mail system) that was not the case. Due to the timing, I didn't have time to respond to this issue before responding. I doubt that I'd actually want to write another book on Java, but I was miffed. My book cost about half as much as a typical college text, but it could have been so much cheaper. Accreditation is one of the things that keeps the price so high. The accrediting agencies are serious good old boys clubs that are really into maintaining the professional clubs and status quo. Nov-06-12    waustad: I mentioned something recently about people posting operatic things here. Please do, but please avoid politics in any of these. As a friend of mine once mentoned, poly-ticks breaks down to poly = many, ticks = blood sucking parasites. Nov-08-12    technical draw: <waustad> Back in October I posted this: <Oct-08-12 technical draw chessforum technical draw: <hoodrobin><I like the Ring above all, perhaps.> That makes two of us. As an added coincidence right now I'm listening to the first part of Meistersinger. I don't think Bryn Terfel is doing a good job as Sachs in this BBC broadcast. He sounds so weak.:> Maybe I should listen again. Nov-23-12    Fusilli: <waustad> Here's an operatic question for you. What does Lucia di Lammermoor die of? An attack of madness is not a valid cause of death! :) Nov-29-12    waustad: There must be a lot of lower rated people getting into the game in the US. When I was rated 1742 almost 25 years ago, that was about the 67th percentile. I just looked up somebody now rated in the 1670s and it said he is in the 84th percentile. I wonder what the median is for a typical weekend Swiss nowdays. I was usually right near the pivot point back when I was playing in tournaments. Of course, higher rated players play more than lower rated ones most of the time so the 50th percentile player is usually in the lower half of a Swiss. Nov-29-12    waustad: I guess that's so: http://archive.uschess.org/ratings/... As of the last posting of ratings/percentiles there are a lot more lower rated players, by percentage, than there were in the 1980s. Dec-01-12    scormus: Just saw your post on my forum (I dont get many so I dont look there very often) I'll see what I can find out about Jim O'Dell, but there might not be so much Dec-01-12    Fusilli: <waustad> I think the explanation for the bloated lower section of the US rating distribution is scholastic chess. The trend is toward more and more scholastic chess, which produces a living for a lot of chess players who teach kids. I think I read somewhere that in the US a million kids have chess as an extracurricular activity in school, and if memory serves the USCF executive director told me a few years ago that half of the USCF membership is scholastic. I have my own local example, the Nashville Chess Center. The NCC has contracts with 33 local schools, which gives work to several local chessplayers. Most tournaments organized by the NCC are for kids. Maybe as many as 75 percent of them. In his book "American Grandmaster" GM Joel Benjamin complains that chess is becoming not only an activity for kids in the US, but an activity for "little" kids, to the detriment of adult chess and high-level chess. He himself has to make a living by teaching kids... at a level way below what he could be teaching. Scholastic tournaments have sections for very young children... I think I saw a section for 6-8 year olds recently. Of course, most young children have ratings below 1000, which I think explains the trend in percentiles that you observed. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 4) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 4 ·  Later Kibitzing>		A free online guide presented by Chessgames.com

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