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I think most remotely decent chess players were school champion at some point.
I was school champion when I was still just a beginner lol.

I think most remotely decent chess players were school champion at some point.
I was school champion when I was still just a beginner lol.

Chess today @CheeseIsVeg?

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Well chess club was... interesting. I played a couple of games, won the first one although I made some fairly bad mistakes. Lost the second one playing a classical Sicilian where I thought, "Imma try to play like Fischer" so after Nc6 played Bb4, Bb3, O-O, Be3, f4. But then I got a little silly and played f5 too early. Position got pretty defensive for both sides with lots of straight-up waiting moves being played, then I blunder a pawn to some weird combination. Get some good counterplay in compensation and immediately blunder a fcking back rank mate outta nowhere.

Still, looking forward to playing in the tournament and joining a team. Will certainly be playing on chess.com far more frequently since I'm simply not nearly as good as I want to be right now. Though I just played a couple of good games and now 1700+ on the site, which is nice.

Yeah I had a funny time. I played one guy and won two untimed games in reasonably convincing fashion with no time control, then we played blitz (5|0) and he won convincingly. The first two I thought I played quite well. Especially in the second I got a very quick monstrous attack as white in the QGD through some weird tactics surrounding the d5 pawn and ended up winning a few pawns then "saccing" a knight to win another, calculating a fairly short (idk maybe three or four moves) forcing variation which would win the knight back, and he threw in the towel (it was still slightly interesting as my king was uncastled and my queen was sort of doing all the heavy lifting by herself, supported only by the bishop). In both blitz games I hung a winning knight fork and was losing on time anyway. I hate OTB blitz lol. Played another guy who wasn't too experienced, but seemed to know some general principles, and had a couple of bizarre games, won them with mate on board. Second one was opened with d4 nf6 bf4 e6 and I completely misplayed it (as black) within a few moves but somehow escaped.

Funnily enough there are lots of similarities in my first game to the one you lost; it was also a Sicilian (Alapin, with Bb5+ and trading light square bishops), I won a pawn, he got a bit of counterplay, then I managed a back rank mate.

I was asked to play out of the blue by the exec today. I think it's D team, which on the one hand is a bit insulting considering apparently they sometimes get beginners playing on it, but on the other it's something and maybe I'll be bumped to C if my performances warrant it.

I play Chess and Stratego online

Just lost to a 900 on chess.com. Does anyone know why the hell players rated less than 1000 always play better than 1700s? This is ridiculous.

Just after I say that, an absurdly solid game from a 1500 which ended with me having to resign. If these guys play with master accuracy I don't see why they're not masters or at least close to it.

4 points in the tourney, which is good considering it's been about 8 years since I last played OTB games. Also I was expecting to flop every game considering the 10 minute time control (I find 30 mins too quick already lol) but for some strange reason I managed my time perfectly.

Except for one game. Crushed my opponent with a lovely Austrian Attack which I've never even played before, got to a position where there were probably 100 different ways to finish and for some strange reason felt that 1:30 left on the clocked called for an immediate decision, even though I could've mated in a few moves in most variations. Simply played one of the only bad moves on the board and got mated in two moves. Ridiculous.

Had I won that game I would've lost the next game anyway so doesn't really matter lol.

I got 4/6 too lol. Beat 3 execs but only one for the first time, so only one free drink..won one game with 3 secs remaining; at one point had like 20 ses to 70.

Lol I earned two drinks but didn't stay afterwards. Looking forward to playing in the D team and finally getting a rating. Do you know what time control the match on Tuesday is?

I swear I replied to this earlier. (I have had, I believe, seven pints, so my reliability is questionable). I think it was 1 hour 15 for the first thirty moves (or possibly forty) then 15 minutes for the remainder, possibly with increment. I am essentially sure that it starts with 1 hour 15, either for thirty moves or forty moves.