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| Sep-25-07 | | wasspwot: ive found the Orr game on the ICU website.
I think Id have resigned on move 1, 1 Nf3 has to be my least favourite opening to face. If nothing else its so damned dull!
I think if it was me 1 Nf3 resigns would have been the order of the day - "pack up the pieces and go down the bar" as a Swiss friend of mine used to say. |
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| Sep-25-07 | | wasspwot: hmm i see you play 1 Nf3 yourself!!
I also notice you played Ryan-Rhys Griffiths .. i played in a tournament in Dublin 2 years ago when he was 1300 rated - hes gone up 850 points in 2 years. Quite talented obviously. Does he still play in a baseball hat? |
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| Sep-25-07 | | wasspwot: Ah I see you play 1 Nf3 yourself!
I noticed you played Ryan Rhys-Griffiths.. I remember him playing in the 2005 Leinster Championship at which point he was 1300 - seems to have gone up the rankings very fast. Was he hard to play?
Does he still play in a baseball hat? |
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Sep-25-07
 | | Domdaniel: <wasspwot> In 2005, despite having a European c'ship on my doorstep, I wasn't sufficiently interested in chess to even visit it. But then the addiction returned, and I played in Cork 2006. Made 50% which was OK for my first tournament since 1989. Hmm. We haven't played, have we? |
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Sep-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <wasspwot> I lost to RR Griffiths much too easily -- encouraged him to advance pawns with the plan of undermining them, but they just kept coming. What irks me is I now seem to lose to the up-and-coming young players. In the 1980s I used to regularly beat the future internationals (Brady etc etc) while they were still 2000-rated teenagers. Maybe a couple of tournaments per year isn't enough to get in the groove, or maybe I'm senile. PS -- am I seeing double or are you somehow repeating yourself? |
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Sep-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <My God I'm an idle girl.> I've passed the news to our pal <Idle Nomad> -- he's so delighted he might make a comeback... |
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| Sep-25-07 | | wasspwot: yes - for some reason the note didnt take at first - I thought i may have included a rude word or something by mistake. A friend of mine has recently decided to stop playing wild gambits and instead switch to the Kings Indian Attack with great success - last week he beat a UK 138-rated player with it. He combined it with a Kside pawn storm to great effect. I think forcing himself to play a solid opening is allowing his tactical ability to shine forth. In the past he favoured the Kings Gambit and Latvian! Griffiths seems very strong. Presumably in the 1980s you were a young up and coming teenager yourself! They are hard to beat thats for sure. I struggled to overcome a member of the Irish under 14 team at Galway last weekend. The only thing that saved me was that he didn't know t he nuances of the Sveshnikov. Im looking through some of the other Irish Championship games. I see my old clubmate John Maher was there, brave decision by a 1350 player to take part but im sure its a good experience. Interesting to see that a 2100-rated American player had a dreadful tournament, only managed 2.5 including losing in 10 moves to a 1650 in round 1. Jetlagged perhaps? |
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| Sep-25-07 | | wasspwot: In cork 2006 I played the entire event with a raging hangover, or more accurately two separate hangovers. I had to leave the board for a 30 minute walk on the saturday morning. We wouldnt have been in the same section though so youd have escaped the privelige of playing me. You should come to Kilkenny - best tournament in Ireland and the scene of my only tournament victory! many fond memories , not least Michael Adams buying me a pint. |
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Sep-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <twinlark> Job done, I think... but whatever for? I hate deleting. I particularly dislike deleting your antipodean offerings. You don't want to be seen talking to me anymore, I suppose. Sigh. |
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| Sep-26-07 | | twinlark: Well...you are pretty dodgy company. Didn't you get locked up once? Or was that out? Or down? Hmm...have you ever been prepositioned before? Seriously, I felt they were substandard and shouldn't exist. |
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Sep-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <twinlark> -- <I felt they were substandard and shouldn't exist.>
Wow. If that rule were applied generally a lot of us would suddenly go poof! into thin air. But your wish is my command. Anytime you want to replace 'em with superstandard (suprastandard? hyperstandard? er, *better*) ones, feel free. |
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| Sep-26-07 | | twinlark: Ta.
Put it down to an equatorially challenged hangover (the world spins in the opposite direction) derailing my already deranged disposition...I felt embarrassed at their existence. |
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| Sep-27-07 | | mack: Had a read through Arturo Schwartz's massive 'The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp' yesterday. It's a fine, fine thing. I see that Mr Schwartz has also written the fascinating sounding 'Andre Breton, Trotsky et L'anarchie'. If I can touch up my French sufficiently, which ought not take too long, then that's a certain purchase. |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I've had some envious peeks at that tome too, but I don't own a copy. Wish I did. French is unique among languages in that in frequently touches *itself* up. |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: ... and <L'anarchie dans le Royaume-Uni> by <Les Pistolets du Sexe> sounds even better in French. |
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| Sep-27-07 | | achieve: <Domme> Hier Vous avez passé les Sept-milles kibitzes! Felicitations, Royaume-Unique! |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <accomplir> Merci, Niels, mon vieux. C'est comme <Sept-milles kibitzes sous la mer> par Jules Verne, n'est-ce pas? C'est un 'club' un peu 'elite' pour moi, parmi les 'grown-ups'. |
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| Sep-27-07 | | achieve: C'était <Vingt mille lieues sous les mers> n'est-ce pas? pour crier très fort! Trop elite pour vous?? Mais non! Regrette rien! Vous etes un homme adulte! (grown-ups = adultes ? -- peut-être verifier..) |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Ouais, I had to write 'grown-ups' in case the merest shadow of adultery should fall across this forum... Actually, my reasoning was that the French regularly borrow English words (le weekend, le sporting club, etc) and that 'les grownups' was the sort of term they *should* borrow, if they hadn't actually already done so. It has a different tone to adults/adultes -- but you know all about tones. My back-translation of Verne was just wrong. It's 'under the sea' in English and I thought the French was the same. Must be the seven seas? Les sept mers? Sept ember song ... aaargh. Basta. Ca suffit comme ca. |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <wasspwot> On the subject of 1.Nf3 -- I don't find it at all boring. It can be played with very violent intentions -- but first a small bit of psychological warfare to convince the opponent that you're a harmless pacifistic geek. Nf3 can have that effect. One of my favorite opening sequences goes like this:
1.Nf3
[ho-hum....]
1...f5 [thinks: let's see what Mr Yawn here makes of the Dutch...]
2.e4
[what Dutch? welcome to the wacky world of the Lisitsyn Gambit...] Most people accept it with 2...fxe4, when White plays Ng5 and d3, and black has to take care not to be mated. Just once has an opponent called my bluff by playing 2...e5, transposing into the Latvian (normally 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5). Of course sometimes after 1.Nf3 I *really* am boring. You can't play the same bluff every hand, after all... |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <more Nf3 gibberish> Today's puzzle game, Ed Lasker vs Winkelman, 1926, begins 1.Nf3 and reaches a forced mating combination on move 14. Dull, huh? |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: A minor statistical oddity. On the ChessGames.com Statistics Page, where top players are ordered according to highest achieved rating, the 8 contestants in Mexico fall in four adjacent pairs: Kramnik is 3rd, Anand 4th; Svidler 7th and Leko 8th; Aronian 10th and Morozevich 11th; and finally Gelfand 21st and Grischuk 22nd. Strange. And 3+4=7, and 10+11=21, and... oh, stop it. |
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| Sep-27-07 | | dakgootje: I sense a conspiracy |
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Sep-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <dak> You're right. Good to hear from you... but remember, dancing rooks have ears. |
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| Sep-27-07 | | achieve: <Sept ember song ... aaargh. Basta. Ca suffit comme ca.> May be a stu ped question, but sept ember, oct ober, nov ember, dec ember sette, octo, nona, deca represent the 9th, 10th, 11th and twelfth months-- I never questioned that and the origin of the names, but there must be something i.e. I need an explanation... To morrow. (se-vich)
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