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My highest rating the last month was....

ta ta taaa taaaaaaa *drum roll*: 1383!
If I'd won one or two more matches...I'd have reached the 1400 for the first time!

But I didn't, so I haven't and now I'm losing a lot again.

I tell you, it's like God handed me a sack of carrots and pulled it away before I opened them.

He's forever taunting me. Seriously he is.
He just keeps piling on the pressure. Dipping me, much like a mars bar in chip fat, in front of all things beautiful and then wheeling me away in the wheelchair of fate. Time after bloody time.
He's trying to make me snap. I know this for sure. He's taunting me, dangling nice juicy fruits before my very eyes...

Do you know what else he's doing? He keeps tempting me. Keeps tempting me with temptation like Michael Jackson tempts kids with sweeties.
Then it's a bar of mint chocolate. Still in the shop. Just waiting for me like a dog does its owner and calling out to me like the whore of damnation.
Then it's a beautiful woman. Just outside a shop. Just waiting for me like a bar of mint chocolate in a shop. Calling out to me like a chip shop from hell.
Then it's a nazi crossing the road in front of my car. Just waiting for me like hell waits for Republicans and calling out to me like the whore of a mint chocolate bar...

Then I trip. Or I stagger. But most certainly embarass myself like a Bush does a country.
Or it's not a nazi and the old grandma waves to me as she slides over my windscreen.
Or its maggots in my ice cream.

He just keeps tempting and abusing me. That's what this is all about! He just wants to snap me like Kit Kat. That's what he wants.

Lala kahle [Sleep well]
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight

(Chorus)
Imbube

Ingonyama ifile [The lion's in peace]
Ingonyama ilele [The lion sleeps]
Thula [Hush]

Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight

(Chorus)

Ingonyama ilele (The lion sleeps)

Hush my darling, don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight

He, ha helelemama [He, ha helelemama]
Ohi'mbube [lion]

(Chorus)

Ixesha lifikile [Time has come]
Lala [Sleep]
Lala kahle [Sleep well]

Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight

(Chorus)

My little darling
Don't fear my little darling
My little darling
Don't fear my little darling

Ingonyama ilele [The lion sleeps]

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Originally posted by shavixmir
My highest rating the last month was....

ta ta taaa taaaaaaa *drum roll*: 1383!
If I'd won one or two more matches...I'd have reached the 1400 for the first time!

But I didn't, so I haven't and now I'm losing a lot again.

...[text shortened]... on't fear my little darling

Ingonyama ilele [The lion sleeps]
I'm nearly the same except I actually got past 1400 for about twelve seconds.😲 I then proceeded to give away about a thousand queens and I've been forked backwards, sideways and from every possible angle.....my descent has begun in earnest 🙁

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Originally posted by shavixmir
My highest rating the last month was....

ta ta taaa taaaaaaa *drum roll*: 1383!
If I'd won one or two more matches...I'd have reached the 1400 for the first time!

But I didn't, so I haven't and now I'm losing a lot again.
Shavixmir,

Do you find that you make better or worse moves when
you are drunk or stoned?

If you find that one condition yields better moves than
the other, perhaps when you get this close, you can avoid
making moves unless you are in the preferable condition.

What do you think?

Nemesio

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I have been tantalisingly close to 1400 for the past year, up and down, up and down. Now I rise again, but will I reach the lofty heights I so desire?

I doubt it 🙁

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Originally posted by shavixmir
My highest rating the last month was....

ta ta taaa taaaaaaa *drum roll*: 1383!
If I'd won one or two more matches...I'd have reached the 1400 for the first time!

But I didn't, so I haven't and now I'm losing a lot again.

I tell you, it's like God handed me a sack of carrots and pulled it away before I opened them.

He's forever tauntin ...[text shortened]... arling
My little darling
Don't fear my little darling

Ingonyama ilele [The lion sleeps]
Perhaps if you send out more pm's to people rated above 1400 your rating will rise. It's not the goal but the company you keep.


Nyxie

😉

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I'm starting to think I just suck at chess, no plan just "oh that looks like a good move, I threaten a pawn" yada yada yada
Then, once every ten thousand centuries, I see something, a combination, perfectly clear and much to my delight, it works. It's like the gods have pulled a veil from my eyes, but as soon as it's done, they put it back on and laugh at my stumbling progress for the next ten thousand.
I wouldn't mind it so much if I never had another insight, I feel like Flowers for Algernon. *wah*😛

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Originally posted by KneverKnight
I'm starting to think I just suck at chess, no [b]plan just "oh that looks like a good move, I threaten a pawn" yada yada yada
Then, once every ten thousand centuries, I see something, a combination, perfectly clear and much to my delight, it works. It's like the gods have pulled a veil from my eyes, but as soon as it's done, they put it back ...[text shortened]... ldn't mind it so much if I never had another insight, I feel like Flowers for Algernon. *wah*😛[/b]
I sooooooo know this feeling.

I haven't read that book in an age...

Nemesio

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Originally posted by Nemesio
I sooooooo know this feeling.

I haven't read that book in an age...

Nemesio
I read it when I was a pup. Was it originally a short story which was lengthened to go with the movie, or is my memory wrong?

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Originally posted by KneverKnight
I read it when I was a pup. Was it originally a short story which was lengthened to go with the movie, or is my memory wrong?
It was originally a short story, the movie was called "charly".

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Originally posted by Starrman
I have been tantalisingly close to 1400 for the past year, up and down, up and down. Now I rise again, but will I reach the lofty heights I so desire?

I doubt it 🙁
I too am edging ever closer to the 1400 mark for the first time. Hopefully one day soon....

Mark

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Originally posted by Nyxie
It was originally a short story, the movie was called "charly".
Ty. 🙂

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Originally posted by KneverKnight
I'm starting to think I just suck at chess, no [b]plan just "oh that looks like a good move, I threaten a pawn" yada yada yada
Then, once every ten thousand centuries, I see something, a combination, perfectly clear and much to my delight, it works. It's like the gods have pulled a veil from my eyes, but as soon as it's done, they put it back ...[text shortened]... ldn't mind it so much if I never had another insight, I feel like Flowers for Algernon. *wah*😛[/b]
one of my favourite short stories of all time!

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What a surprise, I'm back down to the early 1300s 🙁 Not helped of course by my decision to play Angie at Kamikazi chess and losing... Ug. Perhaps I should try and stay in the 1300s forever, maybe that way I'll exceed my expectations....

I doubt it...

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Stop your sniveling, everyone. I spent several happy weeks over 1400 in the summer of 2003, and now I can't seem to get back to 1200 😲.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Stop your sniveling, everyone. I spent several happy weeks over 1400 in the summer of 2003, and now I can't seem to get back to 1200 😲.
I suppose every dog, I mean chicken, has his day 😛