Even so, from our experience elsewhere, I'd say your game is a good deal better than mine.abiodun wrote: but for now my game is not good enough to allow me to appreciate the nuances of this Semi-Slav ......
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- Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:49 pm
- Forum: Puzzles and Game Comentary
- Topic: Game Commentary : Beware This Trap !
- Replies: 9
- Views: 40908
- Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:15 pm
- Forum: Puzzles and Game Comentary
- Topic: Game Commentary : Beware This Trap !
- Replies: 9
- Views: 40908
I don't like 4...Nc6, although I realize it has been played by players far better than I'll ever hope to become. 4...Nf6 or 4...e6 both look more promising to me as the black player. 5...dxe4 also looks bad to me. while 5...e6 seems playable. By the time we get to move 9, 9...e6 appears just about t...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:50 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Stupidity blooms even in the desert
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34290
Re: Stupidity blooms even in the desert
I have won games that lasted many months (for the stupid delay of resigning) and in the end adding a few or 0 points because my opponents mysteriously had lost a lot of points in a match where they were defeated. I have stubbornly resisted resigning in a clearly lost position because my opponent ha...
- Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:33 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: A sad note about Jeff Jones...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 81940
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:09 pm
- Forum: Books, Software, and Websites
- Topic: Apple computers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14233
- Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:58 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hammerschlag / Fried Fox Opening
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24310
Just for kicks, I played a couple Fried Fox blitz games this evening. This one shows how fast things can go bad for black: [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "freechess.org"] [Date "2005.10.10"] [Round "?"] [White "Wulebgr"] [Black "gallileo"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "1575"] [BlackElo "1...
- Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Siliconthelion?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13476
My point was not that cryptic. It is simply that chess engines are here to stay. I really don't care and I half expect my opponents to use them. I seriously believe the majority of them do. No one is fooling anyone. You’re welcome. I also don't spend any time worrying about whether my opponents use...
- Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:20 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Its almost that time again :)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9419
- Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:27 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Opponent refuses to move
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22297
- Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:48 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Opponent refuses to move
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22297
- Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:46 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 400 wins!!!!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8237
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:12 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: hello and suggestions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9135
Welcome, and congratulations upon your quick success. One comment of caution and advice: many players on this site play too many games too fast. Limit the number you play, and play slowly. This is a correspondence site--well played games take months to finish. If you want loads of quick games, try F...
- Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:40 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Finally...1500 wins!!:)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25633
- Wed May 18, 2005 2:45 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Next opening for our thematic!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16087
- Tue May 10, 2005 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: when to resign?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28496
It seems from previous discussions on this subject that some players view it as a question of "never giving up no matter what" and that attitude can win a game, well in odd cases your opponent will blunder back as bad as you did*, but unless you start thinking differently you will most likely face ...
- Mon May 09, 2005 1:58 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: when to resign?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28496
When you are hopelessly down material it is a decisive disadvantage and unless you realize that and resign you won't learn from it and develop a sound positional understanding. Yes. but "hopeless" ultimately rests in the perception of the player with the disadvantage. Hopelessly down material could...
- Sat May 07, 2005 9:52 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: when to resign?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28496
This issue comes up every few months in every chess forum. What is your hurry? If your opponent elects to stop moving, the game will time out, so just wait. If your opponent elects to play until checkmate, then you need only find the quickest mate. Courteous players resign when they are at a decisiv...
- Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:38 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Finally...1500 wins!!:)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25633
- Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Rating history
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17937
- Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: King & Bishop vs King
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12010
FIDE Rule 9.3 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by the player having the move, if 1. he writes on his scoresheet, and declares to the arbiter his intention to make a move which shall result in the last 50 moves having been made by each player without the movement of any pawn and without the ca...
- Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Time Out Poll
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23713
- Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:35 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Ratings
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36906
Here I use the Elo rating system which is the same ... [snip] Ratings here aren't inflated accross the board, the last time I computed the average of all of the players on the site the average rating was about 300. ... [snip] The net effect is that the players to play regularly here get inflated ra...
- Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:52 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: so which browser r u using
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26782
- Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:48 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Other correspondence chess sites?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15770
The limits at some other sites become less restrictive, or go away completely, after a player completes a set number of games. GameKnot has restrictions even for paying members--but these are 100+--non-paying members are limited to twelve, and only the after a certain number of wins. At some of the ...
- Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The world champion plays here
- Replies: 20
- Views: 34590
Theoretically mail chess should be stronger than standard chess controls :shock: . [snip] And there is still more. How to prevent the use of chess software (the only thing I can come up is with reduced amount of time to move). I know at least a case where is very suspicious. You cannot prevent the ...
- Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:42 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Stuck in 2000 - Rating prison.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13051
- Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: email notification
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7633
If you use RSS feeds, or log in every day (or nearly so), it is unnecessary traffic through the internet. But if you check your email more often than you log in, it could be necessary. It can be nice to know what move your opponent has made before you log in, but again RSS feeds are quicker and slic...
- Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:31 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: thematic is posted now!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5783
- Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:00 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Live Championships
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6153
Most of the Leko-Kramnik World Championship Match was carried live on chess.fm (all would have been, if not for an accident that befell Tony Rook). To see the game(s), you follow chessfm on ICC. You can do that as a guest, membership is unecessary. More often than not, there is some event happening ...
- Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:05 am
- Forum: Puzzles and Game Comentary
- Topic: World Championship Match
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11062
I'm watching. I cannot understand people's hostility to Kramnik. He's disappointing as a world champion, mostly because his tournament results have been mixed. But he is an exciting player. His comments after losing game 8--"it was good to lose in this way, because it was a beautiful game" not only ...
- Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:51 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: New Thematic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12644
- Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Pronunciation of chess names
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41817
Maroczy (MAR-ot-see), Geza - Hungarian Grandmaster
I googled "pronounce Maroczy" http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/ ... onounc.htm
I googled "pronounce Maroczy" http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/ ... onounc.htm
- Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:01 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The world champion plays here
- Replies: 20
- Views: 34590
As for the silent one (who may not even read these forums for all I know), even if kasimzhanov is Kasimdzhanov, the FIDE champion, he's still a poser because the FIDE world champion title is tainted by the format of the tournament. Kasimdzhanov is world-class, but he is not a super-GM. Rustam Kasim...
- Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:37 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: What's in a name?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8050
What's in a name?
Net-Chess, having become SlowChess appears to be in the process of becoming Net-Chess again. The latest updates on the site use the old name.
Net-Chess is too generic. SlowChess captures the essence of correspondence-paced play.
Net-Chess is too generic. SlowChess captures the essence of correspondence-paced play.
- Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Using Chess-Engines
- Replies: 25
- Views: 48614
Re: Using Chess-Engines
So please stop worrying about the use of a chess-engine of your opponent. If you’re the better player your opponent won’t have a chance to win against you. BTW having played against many of the top-rated players on that site I can say that you'll have to subtract between 400 and 600 rating points f...
- Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:33 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The world champion plays here
- Replies: 20
- Views: 34590
Interesting squabble neric and juselton! I checked the stats for both of you posers, and found impressive credentials. You two ought to play a match; I'll watch. As for the silent one (who may not even read these forums for all I know), even if kasimzhanov is Kasimdzhanov, the FIDE champion, he's st...
- Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: producing a JPG "image" of a chess position
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10410
Many chess programs can create image files (.jpg, .gif, .bmp) of the current position, although I'm not certain I would call these "screenshots". The pictures created are the chess position only, not the game and frame (all the windows) that you see in a screenshot. I use Chess Captor ( http://www.c...
- Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:31 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: How many minutes do you spend on a move here in SlowChess?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13917
How do you use Fritz to create training exercises, Wulebgr? Thanks Ram In the game window: Tools--Analysis--Full Analysis; check the box labelled training. Fritz will not find a training exercise in every game, but often it will find several. In the database list in Fritz, ChessBase, etc, games wit...
- Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: How many minutes do you spend on a move here in SlowChess?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13917
People are playing much too fast. These games are not blitz games, but most are treating them just like blitz. The number of gross blunders is extremely high for "correspondence chess". Exactly. I only race through the moves when playing familiar openings, or when the game is proceeding along predi...
- Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: a few questions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16119
You are provisional through 25 games, or 20 (?)--search through the FAQ and Forums, there are lots of discussions. Average rating is the average rating of your opponents (I don't think those that time-out before move ten count). The ratings here are terribly inflated. I'm 1500 USCF, 2300 here. You c...
- Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:02 pm
- Forum: Chess News
- Topic: The latest news on Fischer is available here:
- Replies: 2
- Views: 17299
Re: The latest news on Fischer is available here:
read the rest of the story and follow this bizaar saga Seems to me that you attacked Greg on the Fischer matter, deploying claims (including ads for your site) that assert your journalistic credentials. Yet, your creative spelling combines a word for a street market with one denoting the strange. F...
- Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:20 pm
- Forum: Chess News
- Topic: Fischer summary.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 25436
Apt summary Greg. You do a particularly good job of clearing up a lot of confusion on the process of deportation--something the media often distorts because they quote Fischer without thinking about his complex webs of self-deception. His every statement must be checked on several counts--anti-Semit...
- Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The world champion plays here
- Replies: 20
- Views: 34590
The world champion plays here
Here on slowchess, I found a player named Kasimzhanov. His player info states he lives in Uzbekistan.
His record here so far 56-1-0 w-d-l
Is this player the FIDE world champion, or just a poser using a clever handle?
See http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1789
His record here so far 56-1-0 w-d-l
Is this player the FIDE world champion, or just a poser using a clever handle?
See http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1789
- Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:59 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: What is your favorite Opening as White?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 55079
The Benko Gambit is alive and well! leveretthouse (2043) - Wulebgr (1932) GCS 20 0 GCS, 12.08.2004 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.g3 Bg7 8.Bg2 axb5 9.0-0 b4 10.Nb1 0-0 11.Re1 Nbd7 12.e4 Ba6 13.Qb3 Qb6 14.Nbd2 Rfc8 15.Nc4 Bxc4 16.Qxc4 Ng4 17.Nd2 Nge5 18.Qc2 c4 19.Nf3 b3 20.Qb1...
- Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:50 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: What is your favorite Opening as White?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 55079
When black answers the English 1.c4 with 1....e5, you het a reversed Sicilian. The Dutch resembles a reversed Bird's opening. An acquaintance a few years ago who was good enough for a chess scholarship to college played Bird's throughout high school, but shifted to the English in college (where he f...
- Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:26 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: How do I decline a challenge to play.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8550
- Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:48 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: When to Resign
- Replies: 28
- Views: 46267
- Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Ratings inflation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17418
When I create a database of all my completed games, which includes those that timed out, ChessBase calculates my performance rating 200 points lower than the SlowChess calculator. No doubt different formulas are at play, but I suspect that the average rating of those who time out is the key differen...
- Thu May 27, 2004 7:30 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 3 or 4 moves a week?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13631
- Tue May 25, 2004 10:36 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: rating inflation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 34192
When I create a database of all my completed games, which includes those that timed out, ChessBase calculates my performance rating 200 points lower than the SlowChess calculator. No doubt different formulas are at play, but I suspect that the average rating of those who time out is the key differen...