I am the MAN!! WOOT WOOT!!

Game 4323082
Game 4313764

One game came from a blunder though...and the other came from an unsound opening(at least in my opinion)

Originally posted by tomtom232
Game 4323082
Game 4313764

One game came from a blunder though...and the other came from an unsound opening(at least in my opinion)

"WOOT WOOT!" ?!! Was ist dieser amerikanische Unsinn? Ich liebe nicht Raymond! Bah!!!!

Originally posted by Mark Adkins
"WOOT WOOT!" ?!! Was ist dieser amerikanische Unsinn? Ich liebe nicht Raymond! Bah!!!!

??? I don't speak...what is that German...?

Originally posted by tomtom232
??? I don't speak...what is that German...?

while we're posting amazing, unlikely games. take a look at this amazing comeback. Ka6?? obviously loses on the spot, but a queen exchange really favors white too. technically, material is equal, and my pieces are ridiculously better placed.

[Event "RHP Blitz rated"]
[Site "www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2007.12.6"]
[Round "?"]
[White "rubberjaw30"]
[Black "t8r10"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. f2-f4 Nb8-c6 3. Ng1-f3 d7-d6 4. Bf1-c4 Nc6-a5 5. Bc4-b3 Na5xb3 6. a2xb3 b7-b6 7. O-O Bc8-b7 8. f4xe5 d6xe5 9. Nf3xe5 Qd8-d4 10. Kg1-h1 Qd4xe5 11. d2-d4 Qe5-e7 12. Nb1-c3 O-O-O 13. Ra1xa7 Qe7-b4 14. Qd1-g4 Kc8-b8 15. Ra7-a4 Qb4-d6 16. Nc3-b5 Qd6-c6 17. Bc1-f4 Qc6xb5 18. Bf4xc7 Kb8xc7 19. Rf1xf7 Ng8-e7 20. Ra4-c4 Kc7-b8 21. Qg4-f4 Kb8-a7 22. Rc4-a4 Bb7-a6 23. Qf4-c7 Ka7-a8 24. Qc7xd8 Ka8-b7 25. Qd8-d5 Kb7-a7 26. Qd5xb5 1-0

Originally posted by Mark Adkins
"WOOT WOOT!" ?!! Was ist dieser amerikanische Unsinn? Ich liebe nicht Raymond! Bah!!!!

Translation:
"Woot Woot!"?!! What is this American nonesense? I (do) not love Raymond! Yuk!!!!

🙄

Originally posted by rubberjaw30
while we're posting amazing, unlikely games. take a look at this amazing comeback. Ka6?? obviously loses on the spot, but a queen exchange really favors white too. technically, material is equal, and my pieces are ridiculously better placed.

[Event "RHP Blitz rated"]
[Site "www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2007.12.6"]
[Round "?"]
[White "rubberjaw30"] ...[text shortened]... 4-a4 Bb7-a6 23. Qf4-c7 Ka7-a8 24. Qc7xd8 Ka8-b7 25. Qd8-d5 Kb7-a7 26. Qd5xb5 1-0

Nice!

Originally posted by Mark Adkins
"WOOT WOOT!" ?!! Was ist dieser amerikanische Unsinn? Ich liebe nicht Raymond! Bah!!!!

It's the chess equivalent of an NFL football player doing a celebration dance in the end zone after scoring a touchdown. (Or even after sacking the quarterback, making a 10-yard run, intercepting a pass, or catching a pass.) They act like they've never done those things before. Pretty soon I'll expect to see NFL players doing celebration dances for just getting through a play without committing a penalty. (22 players simultaneously dancing on the field after every play! Imagine that!)

I long for the old days when a running back, after scoring a touchdown, would just casually flip the ball to the referee, then trot back to the sideline like it was just another day at the office.

Originally posted by tomtom232
Game 4323082
Game 4313764

One game came from a blunder though...and the other came from an unsound opening(at least in my opinion)

As you both played KGA which was the unsound opening.

The KG is extremely playable for white, in my opinion, especially in correspondence where the tactics that trip you up OTB can be avoided.

Originally posted by Dragon Fire

The KG is extremely playable for white, in my opinion, especially in correspondence where the tactics that trip you up OTB can be avoided.

I won a club championship game last night with it.
No problem 😉

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
As you both played KGA which was the unsound opening.

The KG is extremely playable for white, in my opinion, especially in correspondence where the tactics that trip you up OTB can be avoided.

The unsound opening was the Salvio gambit...it really gives white no winning chances. It lets black have an advantage which is the opposite of what you are tyring to do in the opening.

Well.. being on the moron side of both of these games I would like to go out on a limb and put the record straight..

I SUCK!!!

if you suck?.....I must REALLY SUCK!!

Originally posted by chessisvanity
if you suck?.....I must REALLY SUCK!!

like hockey team like fan.

Originally posted by MetBierOp
Translation:
"Woot Woot!"?!! What is this American nonsense? I do not love Raymond! Bah!!!!

Perhaps this warrants some explanation for our foreign friends.

Here in America audiences, especially males in the audience, have developed an inexplicably crude and ape-like manner of expressing their approval: instead of clapping or cheering in the traditional fashion, they pump their fists in the air and shout "WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!" again and again.

There is also a popular television program here, a "situation comedy", with the unbearably arrogant title "Everybody Loves Raymond" -- a particularly galling claim since the program represents everything that is mediocre and irritating about American television and the sensibilities of those who write for it. (I speak in generalities, of course: there are a few very fine programs.)

So, having had a few beers the other night, and access to the Babelfish translation program at Altavista, it occurred to me that this sentiment would be better expressed by a prickly German character (they seem to have a flair for that sort of thing) than by my normal writing voice.

My apologies for any confusion this might have entailed.

Originally posted by Mark Adkins
Perhaps this warrants some explanation for our foreign friends.

Here in America audiences, especially males in the audience, have developed an inexplicably crude and ape-like manner of expressing their approval: instead of clapping or cheering in the traditional fashion, they pump their fists in the air and shout "WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!" again and again. ...[text shortened]... by my normal writing voice.

My apologies for any confusion this might have entailed.

the title means that IN THE SHOW everbody loves raymond 🙂 not everyone loves the show and WOOT! WOOT! is like saying yipee or woo hoo.