first ever OTB game

Originally posted by Trains44
Ahhh yer right...."toilet" is a beautiful handle. 😞

I'm still waiting for the game score so we can have a look at it.
Let's quit the bickering and play chess

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
I hope, for the sake of the British school system, that you have yet to be congradulated for graduating highschool.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
It would probbaly be best if I could undo my unsult.

"Probbaly," you never passed a High School English course yourself. And yes, it would be good if you could undo your "unsult."

Originally posted by exigentsky
Probbaly, you never passed a High School English course yourself.

Mummy and Daddy are financing his studies. No scholarship for this boy.

skeeter

Originally posted by skeeter
Mummy and Daddy are financing his studies. No scholarship for this boy.

skeeter

So where's the game score?

Originally posted by belgianfreak
and I won 😏
I finally got around to joining a chess club and played my first propper OTB match against the treasurer (which of course means nothing about his chess ability), 1h30 each on the clock. I screwed up the start, gave away the centre, but came through to win by a pawn with 4 minutes left on the clock.

Not that you'll care about any of thi ...[text shortened]... d use to make it easy (eg. 1.Nc3 Pe5...)

Thanks to anyone who'll take the time

BF

It's proper that you won. At our club it is policy to let the new guy win for a couple of weeks. It keeps you comming back. What if you had lost horrilby? Would the treasurer see your money come back through the door again?

JK

RTh

Originally posted by belgianfreak
and I won 😏
I finally got around to joining a chess club and played my first propper OTB match against the treasurer (which of course means nothing about his chess ability), 1h30 each on the clock. I screwed up the start, gave away the centre, but came through to win by a pawn with 4 minutes left on the clock.

Not that you'll care about any of thi ...[text shortened]... d use to make it easy (eg. 1.Nc3 Pe5...)

Thanks to anyone who'll take the time

BF

What do you expect. You're in the 1500s!

Originally posted by skeeter
Mummy and Daddy are financing his studies. No scholarship for this boy.

skeeter

Another 'fact' you've got wrong about me skeets. When I finish my degree I'll be over 20k in debt. My parents aren't paying for crap.

PS exigentsky I completed English in the my last year of highschool and scored well. Of course none of it had anything to do with grammar, it was analyse the themes of this and language techniques of that. Mindnumbing really.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Education != Intelligence

Cool dude, get drunk on excessive symbolic formalisation as evidence of superfluous education, and post on chess messageboards!

i hope it was worth 20k !

Originally posted by Forest9
Well done on the win, I keep wondering about playing OTB again but would need my opponent to look away while I did a quick manual analyse board; I suppose that'a a drawback of correspondence chess- no quick decisions.

Xanthos also posts helpful stuff for weaker players and is not Australian and those are two key factors in his favour.

I think you may be mixing him up with bowman who does actually do that, can't imagine a self centred twerp like xanthos doing anthing to help anyone except himself

OTB is the best way to play chess.
You NEVER lose because you got disconnected.
You NEVER lose because your opponent cheated with a program.
You don't have to worry about people pointing out your spelling errors.
And best of all if your opponent trash talks you, or is just being a jerk , you can punch him REAL hard in the nose.

Originally posted by aspviper666
OTB is the best way to play chess.
You NEVER lose because you got disconnected.
You NEVER lose because your opponent cheated with a program.
You don't have to worry about people pointing out your spelling errors.
And best of all if your opponent trash talks you, or is just being a jerk , you can punch him REAL hard in the nose.

just have to rec that

Originally posted by aspviper666
OTB is the best way to play chess.
You NEVER lose because you got disconnected.
You NEVER lose because your opponent cheated with a program.
You don't have to worry about people pointing out your spelling errors.
And best of all if your opponent trash talks you, or is just being a jerk , you can punch him REAL hard in the nose.

Wrong point number 3 about the cheating. It happens now and then.

Originally posted by RahimK
Wrong point number 3 about the cheating. It happens now and then.

You mean he wasn't really pleased to see me, that was actually an engine in his pocket?

Originally posted by belgianfreak
If I post it here would someone run an analysis for me? Is there a format I should use to make it easy (eg. 1.Nc3 Pe5...)
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If you post your game in algebraic notation I can run it through an engine for you if someone else hasn't done that yet. This entire thread really degraded into something that has nothing to do with the original message.

Originally posted by stevetodd
You mean he wasn't really pleased to see me, that was actually an engine in his pocket?

Haha, I'm guessing your are a guy, and wouldn't want your opponent probably a guy to be happy to see you 😛

But yes, it happens. Not very ethical especially when you're doing it in OTB against a face-to-face opponent. But the risk is great. You get caught, you get the public boot, No one invites you again (blacklist sort of), Loose the money, have to write apologizes etc....