i think durrrr is better than curtains

here's a random idea i just thought about:

maybe he should play curtains a rook down, and bet around 50K on it.

I am a garbage player, but if anyone ever wants a game (pm me) i love to play.

im like 1950 fics, 1800 uscf, though i was probably stronger. the club i played at a few years ago made it hard for me to improve my rating. players were either 1200 or 2050-2150. there were no strong b players or a players there.

only played one tournament in the past 2 years, at the n. american open in december. played the u1700 section and scored 5.5/7. was 5.5/6 heading into the final round but played an obvious "sandbagger" in the final round and he out grinded me in a complicated ruy lopez.

anybody up for some games pm me we can play on fics or icc. i enjoy an excuse not to play poker.

LMAO

So absurd that 2390s were playing against me.

Hey curtains, take no offense, but your whole attitude that you have going on is kinda getting old. It honestly was funny in the beginning, but it's run its course. and Nh sir

[ ] played blitz in his/her life.

In grade 8 I beat all the div 1 grade 12's 8-0, so uhhh...take that you GMs.

Not to derail the thread but I've been lurking the chess forum today and it's reminded me of how extremely deep chess theory is. In poker terms, I'm like a guy who'll bet on the river with bottom pair on a 4-straight flush board regardless of anything else in the hand.

?? Why is it weird that I should think it strange that someone who is basically the same rating as me is playing in a team game against me. When I was asked to play in a game that took months I was told by the people who asked me that it was going to be me vs a bunch of people who don't know how to play chess, not me vs a 2400, some other masters+experts and some newbies.

That's like Kasparov vs the world but instead of the world, Anand, Kramnik and Topalov join the other team and lead the way.

what about the poster Rory, I think he was a great chess player.

uscf expert here haven't touch a chess piece in bout 5 years.. play occassionally on icc...i believe finewgold plays a bit of poker ran into him at casino windsor poker room once

2102 uscf. I didn't know curtains was GS until just now when I googled him, though I did know GS was a shorty poker player.

I used to crush curtains all the time in Blitz back when we both played a lot on ICC - I don't think anything really used to irritate him more than losing to me. Well that's not true I guess - probably more than actually me beating him was the way I would go off bragging to my sister (a good friend of his) telling her how badly I crushed him etc., and then she'd make fun of him for it, and I think that's what really got to him more than anything else. I remember even the one time he finally happened to beat me in a match he went so far as to tell me "Ok, no more bragging to your sister now".

But those were the good old days anyway, ancient history now, though I'll always carry those fond memories of the way I used to humble him over and over!

sounds pretty ridiculous.

shouldn't we be considering 2+2'ers that are active in both the chess and poker content forums?

I am much better than Lalu and always have been, sorry! When he talks about a match he had with me, it's not that I won, I won freaking 6-0!!! Also when we played live most recently I won like 70% of games out of huge sample, he is total deluded fish whackjob.

so lalu is the bent larsen of 2+2? that's still pretty good

Curtains posts regularly here and puts his chess videos up for free(thanks for that btw), and there hasn't been a credible argument here that he isn't the strongest chess-playing 2p2 person. All hail Curtains imo.

I was 108 BCF, but haven't played for 2 years so that will have declined somewhat. Not surehow that converts.

Unfortunately, curtains is the deluded one, I remember him always bitterly complaining about how I clearly just had some kind of mojo looking at a two dimensional board and how I could never beat him OTB etc. (some people will come up with any excuse for losing you know).

I remember even one time I was kicking his butt so badly that he finally resorted in a game to flagging me in King and Rook vs King and Rook (playing it out for like 30 seconds - again when someone stoops that low to win, it's pretty clear how badly they've been getting defeated). Luckily, I had my sweet revenge next game when he played the opening moves in the wrong order and dropped a Rook which I happily took. He then asked me to takeback the last move, and I laughed at him for awhile, before finally agreeing and taking back ONE move at which point he told me "I love you". Then I had another good laugh and played the same move, still taking his Rook! (poor silly curtains had forgotten to ask to takeback the last TWO moves). He then went off on a huge rant, and I didn't hear from him for several days later (I heard some rumors about a mental institution).

In any case, it's clear that he's blocked that and other incidents of me crushing him from his mind or just has selective memory. He still likes to say ridiculous things, claiming that he beat me 70% recently (yeah right), and claiming that he would crush my roommate, GM Josh Friedel if they played (which is probably even more funny than the previous claim). My advice - stick to poker!

You are a fishcake

The higher rateds are destroying my positive image of them.

USCF rating 617

6 USCF sanctioned tournaments played- last one February 1998.

25 games played, 6 wins and 19 losses, all from 1995-1998 (age 10-13).

I'm sure I've regressed since then. I was at one point one of the better players in my 5th grade class, but then I turned to Sega Genesis and started to get beat by the 2nd and 3rd graders in chess club.

Am I the worst player on 2p2?

P.S.-curtains, I am interested in playing you some time. The only great player I've ever played against was the chess instructor at my elementary school- he currently has a USCF rating of ~2220. He would regularly beat me in like 8 or 10 moves. How many moves would it take you? 4?

No offense jacob but why would curtains bother playing you? Just go on fics or icc and get crushed by any 1600 it will be same difference.

FIDE= around 2430 USCF= around 2470.... FM with two IM norms and one GM norm

I just made an account and am getting crushed by people with 1200s. I've been observing a lot of the GM/GM, IM/GM and FM/IM matches that are going on on ICC, and it's amazing to me how good these players are. They make moves in less than 2 seconds and it seems like they're thinking 15 moves ahead. Their IQs must be 160+.