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Apr-13-07
 | | WannaBe: <THE pawn> Bd3 was a doozer... what I get for playing fast, should have spent another 2 days looking... =( I did spent a while looking at your Bxa2+ and thought it was okay for white. (Hence the sequence of conditional moves I entered...) That's what happens to 1300+ mouse pusher like me, win a pawn, and then ka-boom. The whole thing blows up in my face. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | THE pawn: Imagine if you had played 30.Bxc1 instead of Qxc1: 30. Bxc1 Qa2+ 31.b3 Qxb3+ 31.Qxb3 Rc8+ 32.Kd5 Rc5#
click for larger viewWOW! marvelous. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | THE pawn: Yeah, it is not the first time it costs you a game (I heard). Btw, forget the annotations in my first post, there are no ( ) so it's confusing... |
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Apr-13-07
| | WannaBe: Play slow. Play slow. Play slow... I gotta repeat that to myself. |
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| Apr-14-07 | | brankat: <THE pawn> You just got lucky :-) |
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| Apr-14-07 | | brankat: <WannaBe> It is good to see our old friend Joe W. back. Btw, Sunday afternoon, or so (when I'm done with <chessmoron>'s tourney), I do plan to start a conversation/discussion in <JoeWms>'s forum about the late forties to mid-fifties in the USA (the McCharty era). Since You are a History "buff", You may want to join in. Thanks, my friend.
Btw, how are preparations for Chicago going? |
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| Apr-14-07 | | timhortons: dude good to know that youre a fellow gameknot.com wood pusher.... |
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Apr-14-07
| | WannaBe: <brankat> Re: Joe McCarthy. I'd love to join that! See how much I can recall from "Washington Gone Crazy" by Michael Yberra. Excellent read! <timhortons> Yeah, I'm a mouse pusher on GK, getting slaughtered in this ChessGames.com invitational... =( |
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Apr-14-07
| | WannaBe: <timhortons> If you are interested: User: gameknot have a list of the people. |
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Apr-14-07
| | WannaBe: What a week...
Had a kitchen leak on Monday, find out later it was in the walls, which means the Home Owners Association will pay for all the repairs. (Thank goodness) Finally got it all done Friday, now I'm waiting for the drywall to be repaired, the plumbers had to knock a couple of holes to get to the pipes. Then last night, I ran over something, sounded like a whole bunch of Christmas tree ornaments, and totally shredded my left front tire, got it into the shop so I can replace all 4 tires and get the alignment adjusted. (The tires were original, after almost 33K, all needed to be changed anyway... But I was hoping to hold out a bit longer...) And also getting my rear-end wooped on GK's tournament... Oh well, could be worse, at least I woke up (!!) this morning. |
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Apr-14-07
| | WannaBe: So.... I went back to the shop (Pep Boys) to pick up my car... They can't find my car key.
Yes, you can laugh... |
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Apr-14-07
| | WannaBe: Think I'll watch the Padres vs. Dodgers game, unless my TV decides to blow up... |
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Apr-15-07
| | WannaBe: On the day which MLB honors J. Robinson, 7 games were postponed due to weather... =( |
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| Apr-16-07 | | midknightblue: Hi WannaBe. I finished with 3.5 out of 7 points in the Foxwoods u1600 section last week. My last round was against a 7 year old. I was up 3 pawns and thought I was completely winning, when he suddenly had his Queen and both rooks pointed at my king, and my pieces were all stuck behind my pawns. He had a draw by perpetual at least, maybe even a win. He missed a critical move and I ended up winning (and he cried). Anyway, that game is nothing to be proud of, so not sure if I will post it here or not. On a slightly better note, I sac'ed a pawn to go down 2 pawns in a french defense, saving an opposite colored bishop ending. That was possibly my best moment of the tourney. That one, I plan to post on your forum, when I get home from work. Talk to you later. |
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Apr-16-07
| | WannaBe: <midknightblue> Very cool, looking forward to that french game!! |
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Apr-17-07
| | WannaBe: 4-cores! Then '08 8 cores!! Yikes! http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/17/tec... |
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| Apr-18-07 | | AugustAle: Come-on, you know everyone wants your wabbit Wabbit! You wouldn't give it up for a widdle witebulb? |
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| Apr-18-07 | | suenteus po 147: <WannaBe> I have a question for you. Why did you offer a draw in this position?:
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Apr-18-07
| | WannaBe: <suenteus po 147> The draw in that game guarantees me second place. I will now offer my other opponent in the mini-tournament a draw too. =) Or also known as, the fear of blundering away a game, and not finishing in an acceptable 'rank/position'. |
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Apr-18-07
| | WannaBe: Second (tie) place. http://gameknot.com/mt.pl?id=19591 |
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| Apr-18-07 | | suenteus po 147: <WannaBe> I do understand your reasoning, and it did pay off. Congratulations on your second place! I knew you could do it ;) However, objectively you still had good fighting chances to win the above endgame, especially if black had taken the poisoned pawn. But I won't dwell on it if you'd rather move on. |
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Apr-18-07
| | WannaBe: Okay, I may get one... but I'll have to open that beer very slowly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oUW... |
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| Apr-18-07 | | chessmoron: White wins ♖/♙ with Rg5+ and mating. |
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Apr-20-07
| | WannaBe: Yes!! "Hot Fuzz" is out today, I'm so gonna see it!! Really enjoyed/loved "Shaun of the Dead". But I think I only got 1/3 of the humor in it... (And I'll probably miss 2/3 of the jokes in "Hot Fuzz", because I don't get it.) |
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Apr-20-07
| | WannaBe: Ouch... http://blogs.business2.com/apple/20... |
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