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| Nov-17-08 | | achieve: Funny thing - I have a rich uncle by the name of Chromos O'Mally, who spends most of his time on his luxurious yacht in the Aegaeian Sea (good lord), with his lifelong crazy mate Aleander Snipitow, with whom he fought shoulder to shoulder at the time they both served in 'La Legion Etrangere' ... He once told me privately, that their friendship goes *very* deep, and a long way back, as well! Small world, ainit?
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| Nov-18-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <Dom> I have been playing a bit of rapid chess recently, but I was wondering what the generally accepted definition of this is? Do you think I should call a game where each player gets 15 minutes rapid or blitz? Does anybody really understand what the difference is? |
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| Nov-18-08 | | achieve: <Woody> I thought everything above 10 minutes/game (no increment) should be considered Rapid, but the definition is stretched depending the site you play on. ICC had the 5min12s boundary, I think... "Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected." -- ? |
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| Nov-18-08 | | achieve: <W> I checked, and it seems the distinction is made at 15 minutes/player/entire game for Rapid Timecontrol 1min---bullet---> 3min--- blitz---->15min--- rapid---> 60min ----Standard Tournament TCs--->180min |
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Nov-18-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Niels> 'Rapid' is - or was - Dublinese teen slang for 'good': "it's bleedin rapid!". If a ten-year-old says this, he's impressed. But if a doctor in the accident and emergency dept says it, you've got a major haemorrhage. As for chess: rapid is when I lose on time in the middlegame, blitz is when I lose on time in the opening, and bullet hits me before I know what's going on. |
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| Nov-18-08 | | Eyal: <Dom> Regarding what you wrote in the main Olympiad page about paying less attention to the "big guys" - are there any specific lower-than-2600 rated players which you can recommend as worth paying attention to? Btw, going over some decisive games with big rating differences between the players, I've noticed that quite often the winner/higher rated player doesn't seem to do anything "special", but just sort of moves his pieces around, waiting for the other guy to commit some error - a tactical (mini)-blunder, a simplification by exchanges which puts him in a worse position rather than helping him, etc. Goes to show, I suppose, how difficult it can sometimes be, once out of opening theory, to "just" make a series of coherent moves without self-destructing your position. |
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| Nov-18-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <elephant> thanks, I was hoping I was playing rapid and not dirty blitz! hehe <Dom><As for chess: rapid is when I lose on time in the middlegame, blitz is when I lose on time in the opening, and bullet hits me before I know what's going on.> hahaha don't be so self deprecating, you mean when you 'win' on time in the middlegame..etc <eyal><winner/higher rated player doesn't seem to do anything "special", but just sort of moves his pieces around, waiting for the other guy to commit some error> Yes I saw that too, America vs. Hong Kong had a good example with 2600 Akobian against 1600 rated nobody yesterday. |
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Nov-18-08
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> The whole Greek team - comprised of little-known GMs in the 2500s - has impressed me. I've also been keeping an eye on one guy that I've actually played - GM Alex Baburin, on top board for Ireland. But he seems to be under-performing, with a loss against Poland and at least one draw where he'd had winning chances. He's normally very good at the kind of waiting maneuvers you describe, but something seems to have gone wrong. Maybe after living for 15 years in a country with no other GMs he's lost the sharpness to compete at high levels? |
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| Nov-18-08 | | Red October: speaking of maneuvering
1. f4 b6 2. e3 Bb7 3. Nf3 e6 4. b3 f5 5. Bb2 Nf6 6. Be2 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. d4 O-O 9. c4 a5 10. Nc3 Qe8 11. h3 Rc8 12. Qd2 Kh8 13. Rad1 Nd8 14. Ne5 d6 15. Nf3 Qg6 16. Nh4 Qh6 17. Nf3 Ne4 18. Nxe4 Bxe4 19. Bd3 Qg6 20. Qe2 Nf7 21. Nd2 d5 22. Rc1 c6 23. a3 Bxd3 24. Qxd3 Qg3 25. Nf3 g5 26. fxg5 Nxg5 27. Nxg5 Qxg5 28. Rf2 Bd6 29. c5 Bg3 30. Rf3 b5 31. a4 Rg8 32. Kh1 b4 33. Rc2 Bb8 34. Qa6 Qd8 35. Qf1 Rg6 36. Rcf2 Qh4 37. Qd3 Rcg8 38. Qf1 Qe4 39. Qd1 Kg7 40. Qd2 Kf7 41. Qd1 h5 42. Qf1 Rg3 43. Qd1 Rxf3 44. Qxf3 Qb1+ 45. Bc1 Qxc1+ 46. Rf1 Qb2 47. Qxh5+ Rg6 48. Qh7+ Rg7 49. Qh5+ Ke7 50. Qh4+ Kd7 0-1 does this qualify as a Frog ? Toad ? Iguana ? |
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Nov-18-08
| | Domdaniel: Nah, it's a *Birdie*. Some kind of peacock or peahen, possibly, though there's some similarity to <Owen's Bustard>. I never was much of a twitcher. |
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| Nov-19-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <Dom> Be on the look out for a bunch of bloody fifth columnists, they are behind the lines I tell you! Looks like my latest blitz-krieg Short campaign has been based on a <Dodgy Nosher Dossier> It was about oil all along!
I was tricked!
But I'm not going down for this on my own!
hahahahahhaahaha |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: <Dom>: <'Rapid' is - or was - Dublinese teen slang for 'good': "it's bleedin rapid!".> heh - So yer not sure if it still *is* then, are ya? That ain't bloody rapid, mate!
Jump on a train destination Dublin, interrogate some teens there, and ask the bleedin question, is my suggestion. heh - dublinese is no doubt ever evolving, though I still consider that clip I found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC6e... - deserving the full five stars. <Rapid> Just for the record: there are these ermm... silly time controls like 5min12secs which suggest they might be some form of fast chess or Blitz, but that's a bleedin hoax, cause you have to multiply the increment (12) by <60> - and if that number, added to the minutes set for the game, surpasses the 15 minute mark, it's bloody rapid, I read somewhere. So 60 x 12secs = 12 mins, so added to the 5 mins it will overstep the 15 minute mark by two mins. Which means that ICC blitz at 3m12s is borderline rapid, and 3m11s & 5m9s could still be considered a form of Blitz chess. I hope that's clear. |
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| Nov-19-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: I can imagine what Fischer would have said about the ridiculous 5 min + 12 second games...or rather I can imagine missing his exact words as I hurtled to the ground from the window he just hurled me out of! |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: <Woody> Pity you don't have video and soundplay (am I correct on this?) on your comp; the clip on <dublinese> I posted would have you stiched in no-time! |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: *stitched* |
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| Nov-19-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: You are correct as always <wise elephant>. I might try and take a look at that clip at work but it depends on what mood the boss is in hahahaha
I don't want to give him any more excuses that he already has, what with this economic downturn, to turn me out of the door! hahahaha |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: Screw the Boss, Woody!!
You will watch that clip!!
Got that?
I'll take full responsibility...
This is NO ordinary matter. |
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| Nov-19-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: When you put it like that...what could go wrong?
He comes into work black as thunder like usual and finds me kicking back watching random internet movies. And when he asks what the hell I am doing, I tell him the <purple chess elephant> told me to do it! Genius!
hahahaha |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: hehe - yes - he must understand the gravity of the situation... Btw, what is your timezone? |
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| Nov-19-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: Time I left for work...
hahahaha
later. |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: <As for chess: rapid is when I lose on time in the middlegame, blitz is when I lose on time in the opening, and bullet hits me before I know what's going on.> This tells me that your confidence level has reached an all-time high, good man. You're unbeatable in Standard Time Control. Keep up the good work!
PS - I agree with you re the Greek team at the Olympiad - some fine players in that team. The Dutch were plodding nicely, but Armenia proved too much at only one board... |
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| Nov-19-08 | | achieve: <Dom> Some entertainment here: "Amy Walker does a little tour of 21 accents in 2 1/2 minutes. From the UK and Ireland to Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, France, Australia, New Zealand, and around North America." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ugp... Her switch from the Toronto accent, to the Brooklyn one, is brilliant (1.53-2.04) ... and a slight turn on she is as well, heh -- check it out! |
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Nov-19-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Amy 'world' Walker isn't half bad - even though some of the Eurospreche is a bit dodgy ... and her Belfast is slightly off ... and her Toronto insufficiently Trawna. Perhaps she's simply posh -- I note there's no Manchester, Newcastle or other regional English ones, but you can't have everything. An Irish actor/comedian named Niall Toibin used to do something similar, with a county-by-county tour of Irish accents. Along with 'amusing' stereotypes such as the story that people from Cavan eat their dinner from a drawer. So they can slide it shut quickly if anyone visits. I don't know whether he's out there in the webbyverse. Rapid might have been replaced by massive - bleedin massive. Or both of them replaced by some word I haven't even heard yet. These teens will mutate so. |
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Nov-19-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Found a clip of Toibin doing his one-man Brendan Behan show -- an angstier version than the one I saw live a few years ago, which was more comic in style. http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=krfxX... |
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Nov-19-08
| | Domdaniel: ... and that led, sure as day follows night, unless you're in the Antarctic where it happens the other way round, to a clip of Bob Dylan singing The Old Triangle. Not so much the jingle-jangle morning as the jingle-jangle small hours. He cleans up the slang, of course. The original "Gerrup yeh bowsies and clean out yer cell" becomes the banal "get out of bed and clean up your cell". Gerrup, Bob! |
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