Members' Photos XVIII - 90% Photoshops

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From the US Amateur Team East chess tournament. Over 1,700 players showed up from age 5 to over 90!

Despite the name (Amateur Team) Masters are allowed to play in the event as long as the average team rating is below Master strength (2200 rated), each team consists of four players. I played first board so had some tough games but only lost once (of six games) & beat a strong Master and drew an Expert so I was quite pleased about all that (especially since I haven't been studying chess much lately).

Anyway, some pics

First off, a tiny one taken with our tiny teammate's dad's camera (I'm on the upper right)

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Another tiny one of us playing :

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More in spoiler :

Spoiler :

Me with my board #3 teammate Maanav (4th best eight year old in the United States :))
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Another one :
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My board #2 on the right & another friend on the left (my right).
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Between rounds being a dad (at the hotel pool, we didn't stay at the hotel but the event was there)
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Too young for chess but playing her own game with pretty rocks.

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Pretending to clean the plants (later she pretended to water them & made flowers for them using the gemstone looking rocks).

In the final round Maanav's game went the distance, about five hours long, we all gathered round to support him, he had a tricky but winning endgame but ending up just drawing, still that was enough to win the match 2.5 to 1.5 (2 wins, 1 draw & 1 loss against our opponents).

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The fact that an eight year old kid can sit still (while shifting about a bit) for three to five hours a game, two games per day for three days straight amazes me. Not to mention he plays better than I did in my early twenties!

But when he's not playing chess he goes back to being a child again (running around & chatting with other kids). He's also got an awesome beaming smile when he wins. :)
 
I thought you had an awesome fringe for a while :(
 
Well it's not a picture of me, per se...but this is a picture of the campus that I took today. It is gorgeous. Incidentally, I live in the apartment pictured at left.

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Owen Glyndwr said:
Well it's not a picture of me, per se...but this is a picture of the campus that I took today. It is gorgeous. Incidentally, I live in the apartment pictured at left.

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Ah yes, everyone loves a blue-tinted day :p
 
Random, is that a beard or shadow under your chin?
 
Please shave it. Jesus cries when neckbeards are on someone.:p
 
"This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature....It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness." - St. Clement of Alexandria

Besides all the quasi-Gnostic stuff, you think he would be lying?
 
I saw a few people roaming around school today with ash on their foreheads.
 
Owen Glyndwr said:
Well it's not a picture of me, per se...but this is a picture of the campus that I took today. It is gorgeous. Incidentally, I live in the apartment pictured at left.

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I miss Santa Cruz sometimes. There was a nice outdoor pool, I think on your campus, with very little chlorine in it (ozonated I think) that I used to swim in once in awhile.
 
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