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by jkavanagh
Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:37 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: playing in the nude//////???????
Replies: 11
Views: 21240

you guys are wearing clothes?
by jkavanagh
Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:29 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Something I didn't know about tournaments
Replies: 4
Views: 9682

..and I'm getting stomped, but enjoying the games.
by jkavanagh
Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:07 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Something I didn't know about tournaments
Replies: 4
Views: 9682

islanderfan wrote:ok bro where are da others! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I guess the family match is all they have energy for right now. How about I challenge you to a 4-game match instead?
by jkavanagh
Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:21 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Something I didn't know about tournaments
Replies: 4
Views: 9682

Something I didn't know about tournaments

... is that you can't challenge a few people and leave some spots open. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I started a match for a few family and friends (by the way, jkavanagh, jakavanagh, and akavanagh are all different people). I though it would be interesting to leave a spot open for an "outsider" ...
by jkavanagh
Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:24 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Thoughts on openings
Replies: 6
Views: 14241

gmiller wrote:...if you're studying specific opening lines, and your opponent is studying tactics, you'd probably lose....games are normally lost and won on outright blunders until you get near the expert or master level.
That certainly sounds right to me. Thanks!
by jkavanagh
Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:29 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Thoughts on openings
Replies: 6
Views: 14241

Thoughts on openings

I'm someone who plays fairly well for a not-serious player - I haven't been in a chess club since high school and will get stomped by anyone who's much smarter or has studied in any disciplined way. However, a friend was asking me about openings the other day - why there wasn't a clearly-defined bes...
by jkavanagh
Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:28 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Stereotypical Chess Players
Replies: 16
Views: 30160

Best player I ever played was an illiterate truck driver - not that I'm very good, but he was so much better that we might have been from different planets. No fun for either of us, and I can usually make a good player think. My favourite regular opponent was in my high school club - very evenly mat...
by jkavanagh
Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:47 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: editing comments
Replies: 3
Views: 9185

Yes, I did mean notepad. But I still can't make it work. Whether I write in the small box or press "Edit" to get the larger notepad, there doesn't seem to be any way I can save a comment unless it's my turn. I can write them, but they won't save. Am I missing something obvious? Heaven knows I do tha...
by jkavanagh
Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:52 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: editing comments
Replies: 3
Views: 9185

editing comments

Is there some way to edit comments when it's not my move? Sometimes I look the games over while I'm waiting and something occurs to me.
by jkavanagh
Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:41 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: 10 move mark?
Replies: 10
Views: 19488

Of course it's not over till it's over, especially if the guy is as much better than me as his ranking shows. But still, he's about to lose his queen for a rook, to no advantage I can see. You can understand why it's frustrating for me not to see if I could make this count. Thanks for looking at it ...
by jkavanagh
Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:13 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: 10 move mark?
Replies: 10
Views: 19488

Like g1104679821, for instance.
by jkavanagh
Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:31 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: I need a classy bag for a chessboard.
Replies: 3
Views: 16344

I wonder if you might find a soft or hard-shell case for some sort of musical instrument - a small percussion instrument, a set of Orff bells, something like that. Most attaché or laptop cases would be rectangular, and one side too short. There might also be something like a salesman's supply case ...
by jkavanagh
Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:30 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: I need a classy bag for a chessboard.
Replies: 3
Views: 16344

I wonder if you might find a soft or hard-shell case for some sort of musical instrument - a small percussion instrument, a set of Orff bells, something like that. Most attaché or laptop cases would be rectangular, and one side too short. There might also be something like a salesman's supply case ...
by jkavanagh
Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:18 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: 10 move mark?
Replies: 10
Views: 19488

The player who times out always gets scored a loss. The only point in letting one of those games time out would be to deprive you of the win, which isn't very common. It's happening to me in three or four games in my first month. It's frustrating. If it's done deliberately, it seems like bad manners.
by jkavanagh
Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:15 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Sandbagging
Replies: 5
Views: 12626

Maybe he just really hates to play that opening...
by jkavanagh
Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:10 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Time Out Poll
Replies: 12
Views: 23708

I'm in my first tournament, and really enjoying myself. I've never played online except informmally with people I know, and I'm impressed by the way it works. I wondered about people abandoning lost games instead of resigning, and I'm searching all the threads about it. I resigned like a gentleman i...
by jkavanagh
Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:43 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: knight + bishop
Replies: 5
Views: 12583

We used to use this (BNK vs K) as an exercise in my chess club. It's so hard. Good luck.