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Joined: 3/8/2005
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Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Chess :).. Im alright....i'm a good challenge if you guys want.. i dont play online though... although.. www.yahoo.ca has online chess,, i can play there. just ask :)
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He/Him
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Joined: 5/1/2004
Posts: 4096
Location: Rio, Brazil
I'm personally more interested in playing "Go".
Joined: 4/4/2004
Posts: 66
Deviance wrote:
Were you the one who won the U1600? Do you have a pgn of your games? I tried signing up for FICS, but they wouldn't accept any email I would give them. I still play on chess21.com though, so far without any problems.
Yes, I was the U1600 winner. I sat on a 1531 rating (obtained from my first few years of chess play) for 7 years (while continuing to study and improve) waiting for a tourney with prizes this size. Now I'm very glad I did that :) PGN with annotations and analysis should be finished today. PM me your email address and I will send you it if you like. If more people here are interested, I'll put it up on a webpage somewhere instead. Also, I'm an administrator at FICS, so I can set you up with a FICS account if you PM me your desired handle, email address, and real name (if you don't want to give out your real name, that's OK, but I must put something in the "real name" field, even if it's a fake name). My handle on FICS is "toddmf".
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Player (206)
Joined: 2/18/2005
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Todd: Very strong to reach a rating of more than 1500 in the age of 7, respect. This is just my current online-rating in www.gamecolony.com at age of 21 :-( I'm also interested in your PGN. My E-Mail is saturn-@hotmail.com
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Don't despair, Saturn. John Fedorowicz didn't start playing chess until the ripe old age of 14, and he's a GM now. There is hope for you yet!
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Joined: 4/21/2004
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
LOL @ Xebra ^_^
Nitrogenesis wrote:
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I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
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I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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He didn't actually mean that he had that rating when he was 7 years old, lol.
Player (206)
Joined: 2/18/2005
Posts: 1451
xebra: I feel relieved now :-) For me Alekhine is the greatest Chessplayer of all time. I liked his very sharp attacking games and he is also the only World Champion who hold this title until his death.
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Sorry, folks. I forgot to check this board during the last week or so. Deviance and Saturn: I've sent you the games. About my rating: Yes, ybbun has it right. Sometimes I write unnecessarily long and complicated sentences. What I meant was this: I had a 1531 rating at age 17. I then stopped playing in tournaments. 7 years have passed since then. In the meantime, I kept improving. Unfortunately, the organizers of big money tournaments were watching me, and now I will have a rating floor of 2000. I was hoping I'd be able to win a nice prize at an under 1800 and maybe even an under 2000 tourney as well. So, basically: Age 17: 1531. Age 24: 2000+ Hopefully that is simpler to understand and a bit less impressive :)
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My mom has played with a guy who has won a grandmaster (he wasn't grandmaster himself though) and almost won.
Joined: 11/2/2005
Posts: 198
I've never played a game of chess in my life.
A life without cheese is a life without life.
Player (206)
Joined: 5/29/2004
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Does that mean you're not a Chess Grandmaster yet?
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
Joined: 11/2/2005
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Does this mean you've finally figured out how to use your brain?
A life without cheese is a life without life.
Player (206)
Joined: 5/29/2004
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Yup. But playing your first game of chess is the first step to becoming a grandmaster!
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
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Joined: 4/24/2005
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It also helps to be a prodigy genius.
[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcuV2JdaBYY]Streets of Rage 3 (2 players)[/url]
Player (206)
Joined: 5/29/2004
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Yeah, but that just takes practice.
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
Joined: 4/4/2004
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There is a very wide range of talent in this game. Some people, at age 8, after less than one year of experience, are better than some 40-year-old adults who have been playing their whole lives.
Joined: 5/3/2004
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And sometimes Kamsky, with 10 years of rust and woefully short on opening preparation, inexplicably crushes Anand, and chalks up a win amidst a sea of bitter and disappointing defeats at the hands of lesser players.
Joined: 7/3/2005
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age: 15 rating BCF: 115 If anyone here knows how to convert that into international grades, please do, I want to know ;)
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According to the BCF site, the conversion formula is: BCF < 216 Elo = (BCF x 5) + 1250 Making it an 1825 FIDE rating.
Player (86)
Joined: 3/8/2005
Posts: 973
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Living in a small town where i know about no tournaments in chess, makes me now know why i stopped playing. I should start again though.