Score!! It's the first <Ignore me> that I'm aware of!!

I finally have a new <mortal enemy>. Plus, he can't see my posts but I can see his.

So I'll have to insult him <by proxy> or with one of my many sockpuppets. One of which could be <whiteshark> himself, for all I know.

You were talking almost as if you were lost, or in a downward spiral, when in fact I think the position is dynamic and close to equal. I doubt there will be a draw here, one of us is bound to make a mistake in such a tactical minefield as we have.

The game has become unclear, and flexible plans AND long term structural considerations must be conidered after every new move now.

I'm really thinking of entering a tournament soon. There's one next week in Albuquerque (a wee 60 mile drive), but I'm otherwise engaged. There's a one-day affair here in Santa Fe in August. As a rule, I don't like short time controls, but I'm weighing that one. I really need to brush up on oppenings/opening theory. I saw somehwere on the Enrique mecking page that he developed his game by simply throwing pieces on the board with little rhyme or reason and then working out combos based on their positions. I like that!

(maybe I should stop telling you my plans during the game???) Heh.

Well, Mr. Knight is now centralized and it looks like there are many juicy squares for him to occupy.

Also, moving your rook might be in order.

I urge you to play in a tournament. I'm gonna finally join the chess club nearest my place (75 kilometers away) on Monday night. I think some OTB is long overdue.

Your last email was great!! I'm going to reply point by point, and btw the longer the email the better I like it.

So far all my opponents have been a couple of hundred points higher or lower, sometimes even a greater difference than that.

We should have a grand game!!

Plus, if <Elixir> and <Squares> remain silent for a another few days, We could start early. One time me and <Niels> played a game that took 6 months to finish for various reasons.

So it's likely we can start sooner than later.

Yeah. I tell you, the photos and descriptions in <Manbee's> place of Chicago and Vegas have me positively salivating. Nothing like the feel of the pieces, the clock, keeping the score, watching the action on nearby boards, and so on (lots of extra-curricular activites! But I was young and stupid).

Not sure what's up with the great White. maybe things will work out, though I know you love to fight! (You might want to rein that in at a live chess club!)

Fantastic!! I'm already looking at Black moves.

Some of those lines look very playable for black,at least to me, but obviously this analysis is no longer relevant.

Thanks to <baba>, however, I'll be able to discuss lines where you don't move the rook after we are finished.

What excitement!!

I'm sensing a MASSIVE exchange spree at any moment.

Which of us will blink first?

The excitement is almost too much, I just peed my pants.

Have to tear myself away from the <baba board> and go play with my nieces now.

Will reply to all three of you later tonight.

I believe this move forces a GIANT EXCHANGE. I think I have a better endgame after a lotta pieces come off the board, but I'm guessing, since you have this habit of not moving where I want you to move.

Heh.

I play <26.Bc4>

I believe this move pokes a hole in our balloon. Time to break the tension, it's unbearable!!

<squares> only signs in about once a week, and I believe <samikd> and I have such an unclear position that we are like deer staring into a headlight right now.

So we could start a game as soon as tomorrow, since only one of four is active and we are both signed in every day at this time, anyway.

You pick which color you want, OK?

Just tell me, then move, or I'll move, and put up a FEN.

Oh heck let's just start today. I'm not going to be working until September, so the more chess the better, I say!!

All hail Correspondence, and the Queen!