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keithstuart

Hard to say until you know exactly how many games we will be playing really as the more games you play te longer you'd need per game added on

7days plus 1 or 2 days would be about right in my opinion

keithstuart

You can count me in to

Regarding the time issue it would be better to have some time added after each move as some of us may well take holidays during the time the tournament is running and could there fore lose half the time assuming a 30d+0d setting with a two week holiday

keithstuart

To be honest the earlier versions of Chessbase are probably so old now that even a decent stantard of player can beat them. The version i have is the free version which i use for my email games with IECG to see the board (all you get is a list of moves and i'm not good enough to visualise a board fr...

keithstuart

occasionally if i spot a killer sequence or a bunch of forcd moves (usually exchanges) i'll use the notes section to leave my self a reminder of what to play next generally i just play the moves as and when i look at the board and the amount of time i spend on each moves varies depending on the pois...

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averating is the average rating of your opponents in all your finished games provisonal probably just means you have not finished 20 games yet as for a simple registration process i woudln't know about that but you do enter an email address to receive move and challenge information as well as game r...

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please note i've beenout tonight drinking

keithstuart

jjones wrote:Ohh dont you worry MR!!
I will continue to post little challenges to you!

I owe you a few losses, so you are at the top of my "zap" list!!

Jeff aka "Zapper"

i.m scared

keithstuart

You know you've only got to ask if you want to try out a new opening

keithstuart

Surprised it was not as obivious to more people

Took me 10 seconds to see what the result was.

Piece of cake really

Naturally whose go it is makes a big differecne though

keithstuart

Only 3 votes so far

come on people vote

keithstuart

Could you not conisder the Dutch defence a sort of reversed sicilian though??

keithstuart

Well i'm going for the Queen's Gambit Tchgorin myself as it is another different opening to add to my ever exapnding reportoire

keithstuart

What sort of thematic are you looking for??

Pick a vague opening and i'll give you a few suggestions, just no Karo Cann advances please as i'll be taking part in a IECG thematic on that next month

keithstuart

erm are you counting draws in this figure??

as if you are i make it a 40% win record 1400 wind in 3300 games roughly

mines almost a win every other game but i want more wind than anything else

keithstuart

erm yes er what is your current win %??

And at this rate i'll never catch you up on wins

keithstuart

Which ever way you picked it was a hard decicsion I personally would of been more likely to go for the Engineering route as if i didn't get on along that route after a few years i would of at least been earning a fair bit more for a few years. Likewise if i'd gone for the lower paid route i'd have t...

keithstuart

you can send a message via the contact player page

all you need to do is put in their username and stick in the message

keithstuart

tellymetwise wrote:1... a4 2.Bc2 Nxc4 3.Bxa4 e5

i'd call it a draw after that especially with the continuation

4.dxe5 Qxd3 5.exf6+ Kf7(or Kf8, Kg8) 5.Bb3

keithstuart

knightmare wrote:A google search for Chess rating calculator revealed about 30,000 hits!!
This one looked most promising
http://www.arizonachess.com/calculator.php

hope it helps

Thanks for this one looks the easiest to use provided i can figure out what you are meant to enter as a score

keithstuart

thanks for that

might not be useful to me but i am sure some one can sort it out

i presume i can just punch in two ratings and get new ones dependant on match result?

keithstuart

Hi Can anyone help me with the working out of rating changes after a game finishes?? Idealy a nice simple program would be perfect if one exists?? What i want to do is set up a rating list for a league that i am helping set up which is full of good players and people who play just for fun. We recent...

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In Blitz I have been playing 1.c3 for a while, with some succes I must say. The line 1.c3 e5 2.d4 exd4 3. Qxd4?! playing the Scandinavian with one extra tempo has worked very well for me. But, i must admit, I haven´t played that line here at Slowchess yet... If you wish to play this line i'll give ...

keithstuart

Unfortunatly we dont have a list like that any more we used to have one a while back altohugh i cant remember if it was a complete list or not the only thing i can suggest is going to the start a game page and seeing which matches, if any, have a rating limit of what you are looking for and then not...

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I agree with knightmare in that i certainly dont resign unless i am sure i cant get back into it either by mistakes or just gradual postional errors building up to my advantage plus i reckon i have a pretty good defence aspect of the game so at the least you'd be geting a good work out in forcing th...

keithstuart

We all know the chess rating has been SO beaten to death over and over...I like to just play Chess, do my best and have FUN! I think Greg does a great job here and let's just play our game and do not worry about the people that are so overinflated...their time will come! Part of the thing that make...

keithstuart

Well of course D4 is the best opening move:) Anyone dare to disagree ::holds zapstik threateningly:: huh huh HA didnt think so :) But seriously, we all have our little favorites, openings and opening moves...personalities are as diverse ad the opening we choose...yet another nuance that makes Chess...

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gmiller wrote:What if 1.Kc1 Kc4 2.Kd1 Kd5.... Black's goal being to keep the opposition and not let white through on the other side.

provided white was careful moving the king around black will eventually be forced off allowing white to start advancing the e pawn

keithstuart

I'd would say provided white did not play 1.e4 white wins

if white plays 1.e4 it is a draw

keithstuart

OH NO< you did NOT go there!!! You wanker!!! :) I will know have to make it my personal vendeta to ZAP your backside all the way to Australia and back multiple times until you yield and admit I am the better :) Seriously tho, it has been truly fun, educational and always a pleasure when we play; re...

keithstuart

After pretty much as long as the site has existed i have finally clocked up 1000 completed games.

Still got more losses than wins but i am slowly closing that gap down.

Looking forward to the mext 1000 games and if most of those are against Jjones i'll soon close the win/loss gap down

keithstuart

If a match specifies the number of games against each player as "4," are all 4 games played at once? :( Yes and you also have to remember that if it is a 4 player match you would get 12 games started. Provided the time for thematch is something like 30 days plus 3 days extra per move it isn't norma...

keithstuart

Congratulations

It has taken me pretty much the entire life of this site (5 years and a month or so) to almost reach 1000 completed games but then i never used to have any where near as many games on the go as now.

Not far off my 500th win either but that wil be Autumn at the earlisest most likely.

keithstuart

I think it runs of the USCF rating rules

As far as i remember it is 20 games before you get a 'fixed' rating

As for the BCF rating rules (i think thats what you were on about) igenerally work to the rule of times the BCF by 10 for a rough idea of a players FIDE Rating

keithstuart

Hi Greg

Is it possible to list total number of games finished along with the win/loss/draw stats on the main page?

keithstuart

Shall i lock the thread then Rhand?

keithstuart

I never actually checked to see where Nick was from

I er assumed he was canadian

keithstuart

how about 'have fun' then ?

keithstuart

i think, allthough i might be wrong, but greg can manually make it a fully rated game so you still get points for a win

keithstuart

perhaps if you type good luck in future less people would get confused

keithstuart

according to the babelfish online translater is means 'will s**t jerk' so i assume the proper contextual meaning is 'eat s**t jerk' or something similar

still highly inappropriate language

keithstuart

I'd Play Kg1 to make black move the bishop but pretty much any move would be fine

Nd2 looks good to as well as Ne5

in fact the only bad move is Ng5

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it would be a little tricky including every member as i doubt every single one actually plays and games plus negative scores are impossible and there were loads of stupidly high initial ratings too There is only one way to stop all discussions but it is a very radical method Simply reset everyones r...

keithstuart

i cna handle anything you send my way

keithstuart

pick an opening and i'll let you win a game if you are lucky

keithstuart

at least some one bothered to check the opening posted

all i did was join

keithstuart

dream on

keithstuart

count me in please but 7pm EST is late over here in the UK either midnight or 1am depends when your clocks change

keithstuart

It was posted to Early for the UK too

keithstuart

dont mention that

I've been here for most of those 5 years

In fact i joined April 4th 1999 apparently so that makes my join date being less than a month after this site started

Note TO self get out more

keithstuart

bah i beat you most times yet i stil have a less than 50% win rate

Still i'll catch you up one day

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