john.mu
Father, Senior Principal Software Engineer at @impact.com, creator of @heroesofcuteness.com, @boycottpaper.com, BJJ practitioner, and on a quest to become a #chess master (USCF 2125).
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Bungo plz fix! 🫶 @destinythegame.bungie.net
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While I was looking at results, apparently I also just dunk on people playing the Ponziani (+10=0-3) and Halloween Gambit (+3=0-0):
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Compared to an older account:
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Nf6 just dominating:
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I feel like that's just a feature of the Caro-Kann and one of the main reasons I enjoy playing it against higher rated players, yet not so much against lower rated players.
This was an OTB game (USATE) where I had white against a 2000+ middle schooler. Dead equal until he blundered on move 39.
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I'd be fine with it.
One thing that doesn't seem as common nowadays is going over the game with opponents after a round. Often times, we'd help fix any mistakes as we also analyzed the game itself. I miss doing that.
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I've never had someone give me an issue on borrowing their notation sheet, or lending them mine. Mistakes happen, as long as we're trying our best out there.
Maybe add the remaining time every 5 moves and use that as a look back window for any notation errors.
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Don't fret too much, I'm around 500 OTB games and still make mistakes.
If you notice something wrong in real time try crossing out as far back as you can and add a line at the missing move, and put the rest back in place.
After the game, you can ask to borrow their notation.
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Nc5 is such a beautiful way to finish it off. Took me a second to have to check that it's Rxf7 first.
Honestly, they should have just given you the 0.8% to just make it 100% for that move alone.
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I'm fairly certain that's the exact reason. Did look it up recently and that was the gist of it.
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It's something I've been working on and feel it's been paying off OTB. Which is helpful since my opening repertoire is quite antiquated at this point. So, being able to do a better job at finding good moves for my opponents not only improved my middle/endgame, it's also filled in some opening gaps.
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The world would be better off with a silly invasion right about now.
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Instead, adrenaline blinded their judgment and they continued on with 31. Qe7?? which looks strong but has a real problem at the end of the line! 31. ... Rd7! 32. Qe8+ Nf8 and now not is the attack dead in its tracks, the queen trapped herself!
33. Qh4 g6 and black goes on to win up a piece.
2/2
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Instead they played Bxg2+?? which puts the game back on track as long as I avoid any perpetuals. It took a lot of my clock to protect against that, down to a minute, but we got there after a force of queen trades.
Chess can be scary and always have to be diligent!
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After being passive all game, I was now the one playing for 2 results and saw this cute idea that's easy to miss:
43. ... Qc6 44. Qd4?! (expected) Qxc6! 45. Bxb5?? Qxd4!! 46. Rxd4 Nc3! 0-1
45. Qxc3 is roughly equal yet I'd have a pawn and a much easier position as we entered time trouble.
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In fact I spent about 20 minutes of my last 30 on Qb6, expecting Re6 or d4. Finally, pulled the trigger with the intention that I can always go Qd4 and regroup.
They responded with Rb8? and letting everything fall instead:
32. Qb6 Rb8? 33. Nd7 Rxe3 34. Rxe3 Rc8 35. Ne5?! Be8?? 36. Qe6+ 1-0
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I like it, remove that annoying pin and just keep the easier side of things. Probably pretty equal but I think your position is easier to play. How are you doing so far? Passers are 3-1 yet in 4-0 on board 2 so it's been a delight for me!
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If I were black here, I kind of already like my position as is, and unless I could calculate something definitive, I would probably be looking more at Be6 and then activating my rooks on the a file.
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"Buckle up lil dudes!"
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Same, I predominantly use macOS but I prefer Windows key bindings for copy/paste/etc. So I just update all of my macOS bindings accordingly.
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3.1: first
98SE: first PC I built via 2x broken AMD K6-2 machines, merged into one
XP: first new PC build
Before that, family did have an Apple IIe.