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Cutlery
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Went out a couple weeks ago to play in an unrated blitz tournament, went 5-3, felt pretty good about my odds vs these old guys and kids. First kid I played was probably 7 or 8, he blundered his queen on like move 10. I thought his dad was gonna beat him when he saw it. Little intense. Then I won a few, lost a few, and got to play the tournament director who says he's the highest rated 75 year old in the country, and actually had a winning position against him before choking in the end game.
Joined the USCF and played my first rated OTB tournament Monday night. Man, you think the autism rates are high in the general population, try a fuckin rated chess event in the summer. First game ever, I'm black and the guy plays the English. I fuckin hate the English. Don't have a good weapon that works. I figured my best bet was he transposed into queens gambit and not some Catalan bullshit, which he did, so I just got to play the Grunfeld, which I'm pretty good with. At one point around move 10 he looked at me like I was retarded for trading a knight for his dark squared bishop, but my uncontested dark squared bishop ended up being the fuckin MVP of the game winning me two pawns and a rook. He almost had me swindled with a rook sac so his pawn could promote, but it would be 2 rooks +5 pawns vs a queen and 2 pawns, so I called his bluff, connected my rooks, and crushed any chances he had.
Second game vs maybe a 10 year old girl. She blundered a knight on move 9. Easy conversion after that. Not much going on there.
Third and final game of the night, I'm on 2 points and tied for first and I get the same kid who blundered the queen from me the first night. He actually plays pretty decent here, at one point overextends himself and I looked at the position for a long time, and just couldn't calculate out the correct sac. It's a lot different playing looking at the board than playing online where you can draw arrows. I couldn't see the continuation and moved back - found out I would have had mate in 4 with a knight sac - I didn't see that the file would open up because the pawn wouldn't be there. Terrible. He proceeds to just steamroll me off the board, I was apparently still winning according to the computer, right up until I chose the wrong piece to recapture with and got myself in a terrible predicament facing an almost certain checkmate in the corner. I stared at it for a long time, begrudgingly took with my queen, dropping my c pawn, and with it, all of my chances, and as soon as I hit the clock I hear this kid say very softly "draw?"
"What?"
"You want a draw for that time last week where I blundered my queen?"
Hell yeah little guy. I told him after I was pretty sure he was winning, but he said he couldn't see it, and he said his dad told him before the game that I was really good, so to offer me a draw if I'd take it, because he was already in first place and no reason to risk 2nd place. Hilarious.
We went up, the TD said 'oh, well if you guys drew, then you split the prize money." Handed this little kid $23 bucks, handed me $22, and his dad took a picture of both of us holding some Jacksons. Lol, what a fucking experience.
Highly recommend.
Joined the USCF and played my first rated OTB tournament Monday night. Man, you think the autism rates are high in the general population, try a fuckin rated chess event in the summer. First game ever, I'm black and the guy plays the English. I fuckin hate the English. Don't have a good weapon that works. I figured my best bet was he transposed into queens gambit and not some Catalan bullshit, which he did, so I just got to play the Grunfeld, which I'm pretty good with. At one point around move 10 he looked at me like I was retarded for trading a knight for his dark squared bishop, but my uncontested dark squared bishop ended up being the fuckin MVP of the game winning me two pawns and a rook. He almost had me swindled with a rook sac so his pawn could promote, but it would be 2 rooks +5 pawns vs a queen and 2 pawns, so I called his bluff, connected my rooks, and crushed any chances he had.
Second game vs maybe a 10 year old girl. She blundered a knight on move 9. Easy conversion after that. Not much going on there.
Third and final game of the night, I'm on 2 points and tied for first and I get the same kid who blundered the queen from me the first night. He actually plays pretty decent here, at one point overextends himself and I looked at the position for a long time, and just couldn't calculate out the correct sac. It's a lot different playing looking at the board than playing online where you can draw arrows. I couldn't see the continuation and moved back - found out I would have had mate in 4 with a knight sac - I didn't see that the file would open up because the pawn wouldn't be there. Terrible. He proceeds to just steamroll me off the board, I was apparently still winning according to the computer, right up until I chose the wrong piece to recapture with and got myself in a terrible predicament facing an almost certain checkmate in the corner. I stared at it for a long time, begrudgingly took with my queen, dropping my c pawn, and with it, all of my chances, and as soon as I hit the clock I hear this kid say very softly "draw?"
"What?"
"You want a draw for that time last week where I blundered my queen?"
Hell yeah little guy. I told him after I was pretty sure he was winning, but he said he couldn't see it, and he said his dad told him before the game that I was really good, so to offer me a draw if I'd take it, because he was already in first place and no reason to risk 2nd place. Hilarious.
We went up, the TD said 'oh, well if you guys drew, then you split the prize money." Handed this little kid $23 bucks, handed me $22, and his dad took a picture of both of us holding some Jacksons. Lol, what a fucking experience.
Highly recommend.
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Valorath
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I don’t play chess. I understand the rules but it’s not something I ever got into. After the Queen’s Gambit show, I thought briefly about learning to play. Never did.
All that said, this post was cool and quite interesting . Keep us posted as you continue to crush the local youth (and others)!
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I've been to hundreds of tournies. Wait till you see your first knife fight.
Watching igor ivanov play for the first table of the texas state championship while blackout drunk was quite entertaining. His opponents would all hit the clock super quiet and hope he didn't startle awake. After a few minutes he'd startle awake, make a move and then take a shot and pass back out.
If you're ever in europe, I highly recommend going to a FIDE tournament. They are often like little festivals if they last more than a day. Cookouts, and beer and lots of fun.
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Looks like I'm in a great spot for it. There doesn't seem to be any rated events anywhere in the Midwest right now, except this chess club plays weekly - several nights a week, in fact.
Turns out one of the old guys I beat handily on the first night is 1700. Maybe there really is 90% cheaters online.
Turns out one of the old guys I beat handily on the first night is 1700. Maybe there really is 90% cheaters online.