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Kill All the White People
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Our club vs another club in May. I’m rusty af should I go full Hippo? 1500 USCF

Man tabletop is such a different beast. Everyone plays super weird shit in club. I have had like 2 normal games.

Just bust out some obscure gambits (not Englund) or fuck it, just play the Polish, no one knows what to do is that.
 
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Man tabletop is such a different beast. Everyone plays super weird shit in club. I have had like 2 normal games.

Just bust out some obscure gambits (not Englund) or fuck it, just play the Polish, no one knows what to do is that.
That’s what I was thinking, some crazy gambits. I’ll donate a pawn if it gets me out of a bunch of opening theory. I had a gambit account on lichess that was 100+ higher rated than my regular account.
 

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I wanna play more OTB, but I think I've come to the conclusion that this is as good as I'm gonna get. I can't devote a shitload more time to training and theory and puzzles and deep analysis on games, I've got too many fucking hobbies. Gonna have to settle for 1500/1600 online and just be happy I'm better than 95% of players.

It does have its perks - you run into people every once in awhile who are like "oh, you play chess? I used to play a lot, I'll beat you around a bit" and then go 0 and 15 against you before you take pity on them and fold up the board.