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Brag: won the Long Island Chess Club championship with 9.5/10
Brag: 2500 performance rating
Variance: not the strongest chess club on Long Island
Beat: Will only gain about 35 USCF points

Great job!

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12-16-2011 , 11:34 AM

#2553

BobJoeJim

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If gaining 35 rating points is your "beat" then you're doing something right, imo. Very nice result, congratulations!

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12-16-2011 , 12:53 PM

#2554

KyleJRM82

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Okay, I'm starting to get why people don't like to play the Ruy Lopez even though it's so good. If your first 12-14 moves in a 20-move game are "book," have you really played chess? And I know a lot of Spanish lines go much deeper than that.

I guess I'll leave that question to the philosophers, because for the moment I still enjoy games like this:

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=55815

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12-16-2011 , 03:31 PM

#2555

KyleJRM82

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Beat: I need nine more rated games before I can be certified as a club TD

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12-16-2011 , 04:04 PM

#2556

BobJoeJim

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Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

Beat: I need nine more rated games before I can be certified as a club TD

Disclaimer: This post is based solely on distant memories from many months ago, and I didn't double check. But...

I thought all that was necessary for the Club TD level was to be an active USCF member, and that it was only for the second level of the TD ladder that there was a minimum games requirement... Has that changed, or am I just remembering wrong? Or is "Club" in fact the second level and I'm remembering the requirements right but the levels wrong?

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12-16-2011 , 04:12 PM

#2557

KyleJRM82

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Wait, you are right.

Beat: I didn't read the "Except for the club level" clause in the rules.

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12-16-2011 , 10:26 PM

#2558

amplify

Eternal Unknowable Mesmerizing

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Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

If your first 12-14 moves in a 20-move game are "book," have you really played chess?

Of course not, the whole idea of learning book is to avoid playing chess for as long as possible. Chess is hard.

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12-17-2011 , 05:16 PM

#2559

KyleJRM82

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Brag: A few months off haven't eroded my basic skills. All the tactics training and opening knowledge and such is still there.

Beat: My mindset for playing is shot. Concentration, patience, calculation instead of relying on "that looks right". All gone.

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12-17-2011 , 06:42 PM

#2560

KyleJRM82

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Self: Man, I played that game awesomely. I'm awesome. Suck it, Najdorf. I am your master.

Imaginary objective observer: There's a free rook. ... it's still there ... it's still there...it's been there for several moves now...okay, good you finally took it. Idiot.

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=56018

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12-21-2011 , 04:24 PM

#2561

KyleJRM82

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I'm almost ready to give up on curing my "My opponent did something really bad in the first 10 moves, I'm checking out mentally" problem. It's just toooo hard.

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12-21-2011 , 05:41 PM

#2562

fezjones

banned

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,961

Just won a one minute game and my oppenent had this to say, assume its german? dunno what it means

depp stimmt scho

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12-21-2011 , 05:48 PM

#2563

Noir_Desir

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"it's ok donkey/idiot"

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12-22-2011 , 04:53 PM

#2564

KyleJRM82

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After more than 13 years, I've finally won a scheduled FICS tourney. (Shared first in today's 3SS 20/0).

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12-22-2011 , 05:34 PM

#2565

Noir_Desir

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congrats. I won my first one

variance: played the following game on chess.com (3d/move):

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=56281

this game followed 1:1 the game Ilczuk-Ostrowski, Polish league 1999. It's cited by Marin in "beating the open games" and funnily also in the chess.com game explorer to which my opponent has access. I wonder what he was thinking, "uh the precedent was 0:1 but i can always deviate later...ooops"

beat: i'm losing my white game against him in only slightly less embarassing fashion.

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12-22-2011 , 05:41 PM

#2566

KyleJRM82

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I don't think I've ever seen the Evans Gambit lose before. Obviously it does, but the only examples I ever see are of it winning.

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12-22-2011 , 06:27 PM

#2567

BobJoeJim

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Originally Posted by KyleJRM82

I don't think I've ever seen the Evans Gambit lose before. Obviously it does, but the only examples I ever see are of it winning.

I figured I could give you some examples from my own games, so I went to the Evan's Gambit theme tourney I played on chess.com... but I scored 5/5 with white. And 1/5 with black. And the one win with black was against the guy who timed out of all his games.

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12-22-2011 , 09:49 PM

#2568

ganstaman

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Originally Posted by BobJoeJim

Semi-subtle.

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12-22-2011 , 11:19 PM

#2569

BobJoeJim

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Originally Posted by ganstaman

Semi-subtle.

I didn't think either the beat, the brag, or the variance was particularly subtle (not even semi) in that post...

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12-24-2011 , 06:19 AM

#2570

jewbinson

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look at that finish

[Event "Rated game: 4m + 2s"]
[Site "playchess.com"]
[Date "2011.12.24"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Adamrrr123"]
[Black "Eller-k-i"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1547"]
[ECO "E51"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Time "10:04:16"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O 5.Nf3 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6"]
[WhiteElo "1489"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 Nc6 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 d5 7. cxd5 Nxd5
8. Bd3 Be7 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. Bd2 h6 11. Rb1 Bd6 12. b4 Bg4 13. b5 Bxf3 14.
bxc6 Bxg2 15. Rg1 Bf3 16. cxb7 Rb8 17. Bb4 Bxh2 18. Bxf8 Bxg1 19. Bc5 Qh4
20. Bxa7 Qh1 21. Kd2 Qg2 22. Kc3 Rxb7 23. Rxb7 g6 24. Rb8+ Kg7 25. Bc5 Bxf2
26. Bf8+ Kh7 27. Kb3 Qg1 28. Be7 Bd1 29. Bf6 Bxc2+ 30. Bxc2 black resigns

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12-24-2011 , 06:21 AM

#2571

smilingbill

2011 2+2 Chess Champion

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Originally Posted by jewbinson

don't look at that finish since i still refuse to post games in a replayer

fyp and merry christmas

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12-24-2011 , 07:42 AM

#2572

jewbinson

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http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=56345

also, merry xmas

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12-24-2011 , 06:13 PM

#2573

smilingbill

2011 2+2 Chess Champion

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that was exciting, i tried to predict which side would win

only after bf6 it was fairly certain. there seemed to be a h7 pawn hanging in the opening

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12-25-2011 , 05:00 AM

#2574

jewbinson

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yeah h7 was hanging for like a million moves... I probably wasn't looking at the whole board. What I played was pretty good tho. 17.Bb4 was a terrible blunder from me, but he failed to punish it. A few moves later I have many ways to win