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12-15-2010 , 12:28 AM

#126

Neuroscience

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 121

How the heck do you guys get so good?

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12-15-2010 , 09:16 AM

#127

Punker

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,352

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Originally Posted by PsiCloneB

I know Gnejs (the top dog of bughouse@fics back when eg the late 90's) went into poker but haven't met him in several years.

Love the old FICS days of bughouse with Gnejs, WhoamI, LSS, et al. I went to one of the San Jose bughouse gatherings at WhoamI's house. All good, but no one like Gnejs.

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12-15-2010 , 04:54 PM

#128

checkmate36

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,114

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Originally Posted by Neuroscience

How the heck do you guys get so good?

I'm guessing variance. In the long run they will all be rated 800.

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12-18-2010 , 11:58 PM

#129

Kittens

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 6,016

They are just pattern-matching. Having played and studied a lot they recognize configurations of pieces and identify appropriate moves. Our brains are very good at that.

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12-19-2010 , 03:47 AM

#130

smilingbill

2011 2+2 Chess Champion

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,458

just pattern-matching, man the truth hurts

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12-19-2010 , 12:43 PM

#131

Ook

adept

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 752

I'm way beyond pattern matching. I'm now into pattern mapping. I know what my opponent is going to do before he does

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12-19-2010 , 07:03 PM

#132

sectorNL

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 210

pattern matching????

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12-19-2010 , 07:45 PM

#133

jontsef

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,065

Pattern Recognition

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12-19-2010 , 09:11 PM

#134

TimM

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 9,767

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Originally Posted by Ook

I'm way beyond pattern matching. I'm now into pattern mapping. I know what my opponent is going to do before he does

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12-20-2010 , 02:05 AM

#135

YouKnowWho

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 6,985

In Soviet Russia patterns match you, that's why there are so many super GMs there.

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12-22-2010 , 04:57 AM

#136

GrassHopperAA

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 483

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Originally Posted by qjuice14

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.

Garbage player? WOW, my blitz on fics is ~1700 and 10 years ago USCF was 1650. SO i guess i'm the gunk at the bottom of the garbage can.

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Originally Posted by kioshk

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 vote grischuk.

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Originally Posted by JacobG84

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+.

LOL, sorry just funny.

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Originally Posted by checkmate36

I'm guessing variance. In the long run they will all be rated 800.

Hillarious

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12-22-2010 , 05:18 AM

#137

Rob1543

old hand

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,414

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Originally Posted by checkmate36

Lots of very good 2p2 chess players in this forum.

I only dabbled in the game when my son was young and almost hit 1500.

Link to curtains free vids?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=895

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12-22-2010 , 07:41 AM

#138

Kokobeast

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 257

Around 2100 USCF, looking to improve.

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02-08-2011 , 06:59 AM

#139

Kingdom Hearts

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,319

i had 2100 in my prime, when I was 18. I've become a degen poker player since then.

Last edited by Kingdom Hearts; 02-08-2011 at 07:05 AM.

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02-10-2011 , 02:19 PM

#140

DeepJR

adept

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 707

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Originally Posted by Kingdom Hearts

i had 2100 in my prime, when I was 18. I've become a degen poker player since then.

Eerily similar to my devolution into degeneracy.

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02-01-2012 , 04:57 PM

#141

DarkMemoria

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,269

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Originally Posted by Punker

Love the old FICS days of bughouse with Gnejs, WhoamI, LSS, et al. I went to one of the San Jose bughouse gatherings at WhoamI's house. All good, but no one like Gnejs.

I used to play a ton of Bug back in the day from the ages of 9-13 or so (so wow, it would have been 12-15 years ago!) I wasn't particularly strong (1800-1900), but it sure as hell taught me to type extremely fast. I always wanted to travel to one of the gatherings, but as I was really just a kid then, my parents were very much against that idea. I stopped playing around the time when PureBugger arose as an extremely strong young player (he used to beat me at the nationals, and then also online in bug). I hit about 1800 CFC when I was 14 or 15, but I never had any desire to push any higher than that.

WhoAmI was always a really great guy and a top bugger who had no problems partnering with everyone. I remember reading Flesh's old bughouse page back in the day for partner profiles, and basically he outright stated that WAI was the best bugger, with gnejs as the highest rated but definitely not the best (rating eeker).