Curmudgeon
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Board_stupid beats beef2711 by resignation.
I seem to have become something of a bogey team for beef, although I don't expect that to last. There was nothing in it until a queen breakthrough caused some issues.
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I quite enjoy the occasional episode of Columbo. You know as a viewer right from the beginning that he's going to catch the criminal. Everyone knows that he'll win. The boys back at the station will know it. If he killer had any shred of self awareness he'd know it too.
It's a bit like that playing against Trogdor. Deep down I probably know that it's futile trying to beat him and it's just a matter of seeing what he'll do to come out on top.
Dearyme beats Board_stupid by asking more difficult questions than I have answers to.
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In the cup Board_stupid defeats N5_SPUR by checkmate.
It was really even for the first 20 or so moves, but the game turned on an apparently free pawn that ended up costing a rook.
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1 hour ago, Aim Here said:
I've jumped the gun a little, due to the glacial pace of the ongoing Pleslie99 versus Purplekangaroo89 game, so the Madwullie Cup Draw Round 2 is as follows:
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pleslie99 or Purplekangaroo89 vs XCTR94
GCarlos9 vs KenDeans
wastecoatwilly vs PnBMathematics
Arabjoe vs AH13STU
Strachanovski vs RBWatson
The_kid1433 vs AimHere
Board_Stupid vs N5_Spur
markf268 vs Dearyme--
In Division A news, PurpleKangaroo89 managed the pretty impressive feat of making two completely separate material-losing blunders in the same move
AimHere beats PurpleKangaroo89 by resignation
That should be Invergowrie taking on KenDeans in the second tie.
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1 hour ago, Aim Here said:
Wow. So it will. I always assumed that midsummer was the halfway point of the year, without ever bothering to calculate it!
I'd like to suggest an alternative midpoint of Saturday. At 1PM.
When there will be 182 days and 12 hours either side of that point.
This is what I'll regard as half time when my team will be getting the hair drier treatment.
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5 hours ago, MEADOWXI said:
I live in my own flat, partner has own house. She totally blanked me all day Sunday, didn't answer a single Whatsapp or call ( I only tried to call once after 4 messages were read and not replied to ).
And the reason, she wasn't talking to me as she had a dream on Saturday night and I was chatting up someone in it. I genuinely do not know how to respond to that info today. Is asking if the lassie I was chatting up hot appropriate ?
Ask her "was it your sister by any chance?"
I then expect she'll realise how silly she's being and you'll both be laughing about it in no time.
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13 hours ago, Gnash said:
I almost went on a date with a school librarian I met online. But in the end I didn't.
I'm surprised you weren't tempted to check her out.
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1 minute ago, invergowrie arab said:
Surely next move is Nf3 check losing the queen to rook or to pawn by Queen taking Knight?
Yes, absolutely correct, you'd lose your queen.
Although at that stage of the game it recognises that you're pretty much beaten so it favours the move which prolongs the game the longest.
Qe3 shows that checkmate could be arrived at in another 8 moves. Qd1 could've kept it going for a bit longer than that despite losing your queen although ultimately it really wouldn't make any difference to the outcome.
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Division A
Board_stupid defeats Invergowrie by resignation.
Invergowrie played a solid game and there wasn't much in it until a back row vulnerability let my queen cause some damage.
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On 17/06/2022 at 22:57, DeeTillEhDeh said:On 14/06/2022 at 20:24, Deewoks_danglies said:Had all 3 of the Avec strips in 1996. The red 3rd strip was indeed a thing of beauty. First ever 3rd strip we'd had I think?
I had the red one but it's now stapled to the roof of a bar in Alcudia.
The roof? That must've been a wild night.
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Division A
Board_stupid defeats PurpleKangaroo89 by resignation.
I managed to take Craig's queen, but it cost me a rook plus a knight so it only seemed like a marginal benefit at the time. However having the queen did give me the mobility to apply some good pressure and was starting to close in when the end came.
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2 hours ago, btb said:
I often see Bully if I'm walking the dog late morning - any messages you want me to pass on?
Rub his belly and tell him he's a good boy.
Hang on, you probably mean Bully, don't you?
Ah well, just do it anyway. It'll make his day.
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In the Madwullie cup Board_stupid defeats beef2711 by resignation.
Beef just never really got going, I think there's definitely an advantage to going white in this format.
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2 hours ago, Loki said:
My appeal was not overturned, so I withdraw from the league in an Alain Baxter style disgrace. Forever tarnished whilst protesting my innocence.
There is a further appeal that can be made but there just isn’t any point, as I don’t have a FiDE rating nor have I any official competitions to show as evidence.
I don’t think playing for money against poker players is any kind of defence that can be used as evidence, nor my assertion that my puzzles ranking is far higher than my chess ranking.
I’d like to thank Beef2711 for the much needed lessons at the start, and for setting my bar of achievement. I’d like to thank EindhovenDee for the absolute battles, and also Ziggy and Trogdor for setting the bar of play. If you can mix it with those two you’re a good player.
Aim Here and Frank Grimes for taking the time to do the admin. You guys do a power of work that goes largely unappreciated.
I can rejoin the chess app by declaring myself a cheat and re-signing up, but I’m not going to do that.
Good luck to everyone in the madwullie cup.
Cup Match
Invergowrie defeats Alain Baxter by disgrace.
A shite situation. Did they say why they thought there was some wrongdoing? Can only presume there was something in your game against me or Invergowrie, but although you played well as usual, they certainly weren't flawless games which might've caused suspicion.
That's 3 times we've had players suspended in similar fashion which seems to indicate that chess.com are overly draconian.
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Division A
Board_stupid and Dearyme draw by agreement.
Playing solidly up until unwisely weakening my defence chasing a knight had me in trouble. Trogdor uncharacteristically didn't drive home the advantage and allowed me back into it.
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13 minutes ago, Aim Here said:
I already have you down as losing to waistcoatwilly and beating mackieboz, so it's just the other four fixtures.
You know it's been a tough season for @Stellabozwhen he's lost to a player that didnt realise he was in the league.
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1 hour ago, Aim Here said:
Does this apply to the cup as well?
On the subject of the cup, I'll do the draw in the next few days.
Due to the number of entrants there's likely to be a large number of byes the first round (Roughly 7 or so) - rather than do it the previous season's method where the crucial semi-final involved a bye. Does anyone have any strong opinions on which players get a bye round?
The two obvious options are:
1) Just make it entirely random. Everyone has the exact same chance of having to play one extra round.
2) Seed it based on the previous season's league performance - that is take the top players who finished the league who are still in the cup, ordered something like:
- Division A players (in order of end season result, minus the relegation and playoff spots)
- Division B automatic promotion winner
- Division A/B playoff winner
- Division A/B playoff loser
- Division A relegatee
- The rest of the Division B players (in order of end season result)
I'm happy either way. I'd lean marginally towards keeping the cup entirely separate from the league and just giving everyone an absolutely equal chance per 1), but maybe this is an affront to someone's idea of sporting integrity. And maybe you've got a better idea that I haven't thought of.
I'd say completely random. It'll be tough enough for the lower league players to make the later stages without giving the Division A players an extra advantage.
And give byes to enough entrants to give us 16 second round competitors, although that already seems to be your intention.
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22 hours ago, tamthebam said:
She'd just come back as The The Queen
Sovco
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Gcarlos9 defeats Board_stupid by checkmate.
I just never got going. Pinched a pawn early on, but as a result couldn't develop my pieces as my queen got chased about the board. Well played, @Loki
Two defeats in quick succession and it's Trogdor next up. This season is going to be a relegation battle for me.
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Ziggy_The_Spider defeats Board_stupid by resignation.
Edged out in this one, I couldn't see a way to either stop a pawn promotion or force a draw. I felt I didn't do too much wrong, but in this league you don't need to do much wrong to end up on the losing side.
Well played, Ziggy.
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Board_stupid defeats Invergowrie by resignation.
Went a piece up after pinning a bishop. The additional piece allowed me to get some extra pressure which was ultimately decisive.
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PurpleKangaroo89 and Board_stupid draw by agreement.
I got out of jail after getting into a bit of bother over stretching early on chasing a bishop. It was backs to the wall until I found myself able to get a perpetual check.
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Anyone else finding it confusing with the conversation switching between egg dishes and work supervision?
Anyway, if you want to make an omelette you have to break some eggs.
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Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...
in The General Nonsense Forum
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Two Americanisms in the sentence " An intruder was shot to death while a house a being burglarized."
It's a bizarre way of putting things.