Sashie VII
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And provides a good exercise to work on your resourcefulness.
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And provides a good exercise to work on your resourcefulness.
PaulusIII
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I must admit that in long time (ie. longer than about one hour for the match) I often resign as soon as I'm a minor piece down without any compensation.
In that case I simply assume the game is lost and my opponents are often strong enough to not let such an advantage go.
I'm also slightly susceptible to the 'ugh-what-the-****-was-I-thinking'-resign. If I play a move and see how bad it was, I get disheartened.
In that case I simply assume the game is lost and my opponents are often strong enough to not let such an advantage go.
I'm also slightly susceptible to the 'ugh-what-the-****-was-I-thinking'-resign. If I play a move and see how bad it was, I get disheartened.
WhiteEagle22
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That's two free wins for your team, Panzar75. 
That's disappointing
. Based on his current rating, it looks like he has been doing that a lot lately.
So, I had nothing to do and I looked through Narz's games. Of a total of 7 active games three of his opponents rated 1700-1800 all lost a piece in the first 10 moves. Where do you find these opponents and can I get some of them please?
WhiteEagle22
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He is playing in a tournament I'm hosting. Maybe next year if I have room and ask if anyone wants to play, you should sign up!
Narz
keeping it real
I did have a fairly easy time of them. The strength difference between certain 1700's and others is amazing.
yes - I dont think the rating has much to do with strength. I've seen some very low rated good players - becasue someone times out on about 10 games. And some high weak ones where the player got a few free time gifts.
I try to have a look through my oppos previous games to get some idea of their preferred type of game - then avoid it! I also know then whether they are any good or not. You can learn a lot through playing through a couple of wins and losses.
I try to have a look through my oppos previous games to get some idea of their preferred type of game - then avoid it! I also know then whether they are any good or not. You can learn a lot through playing through a couple of wins and losses.
I do the same thing, even going to the point of downloading their games from the archive and loading them into Scid. Then I can run opening reports on the player to see how they've done with various openings. But I keep forgetting to exclude the timeouts...
Could you explain a little more about the type of game? Are you talking about open/closed center; or specific openings...?
The only time i did this I found that my opponent had recently started almost a dozen games on the same day, and was playing the exact same opening. I figured he was doing this to familiarize himself with that opening's strengths and weakness, but I never got around to asking him.
Narz
keeping it real
Looking forward to chess.com fixing their Live Chess. I just got disconnected & received a loss for a game where I was a rook up! 
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=17822442
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=17822442
WhiteEagle22
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Now that's tough luck!
I packed up my stuff today, so I'm hoping the moving tomorrow will go smooth as possible.
I packed up my stuff today, so I'm hoping the moving tomorrow will go smooth as possible.
Narz
keeping it real
I created a tournament! (probably won't enter myself since I have three Round 2's coming up)!
I joined after all. It's only two additional games at once. I sent invites to everyone on the team, I hope no one minds.
I joined after all. It's only two additional games at once. I sent invites to everyone on the team, I hope no one minds.
WhiteEagle22
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I'll decline right now, as I'm on vacation until the tenth due to that's when I get DSL. 
Narz
keeping it real
Yeah, hopefully we'll meet in round II or, if not, hopefully round III (if we both advance).I sent a message to Narz on chess.com asking if he wanted to play a game. Then I saw this and decided to join so that maybe we'll meet in the tourney.That 2500+ guy seem strong but he might get dizzy playing 330+ games at once.
Even in a 2/day per move match that could take awhile though so, as I replied, I'll challenge you as soon as my match with Mehmed ends.
PaulusIII
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Any of you guys that have a subscription; Would you recommend it, and why? I'm thinking of subscribing but I'm not sure yet.
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