hey guys, dont time me out, but just so you know ill be on vacation in New York from christmas day to the following saturday. ill try to find a compy while im there so i can continue moving, but i cant guarantee anything...
trying to finish up last few games for the tourney...

I think you can change your status on RHP to 'vacation' to let your partners know you're not just ditching the game you're just unavailable.

I have a couple slots open if anyone wants to challenge me for an out-of-tournament game.

Forgot to mention my username is Opus Magnus on RHP.

yes but i want to try to get on if i can while im there so i probably wont activate that.

hey rebirth have a great vacation and a safe one at that
hope you have a great holiday as well , until we move again.lol

Abecrombie or...should i say

Sorry I have been AWOL for a bit and didn't know the tourney started, could you PM me when the next one starts!?

If anyone wants to play for fun just look me up on Red Hot Pawn my username is ChessJester send me a PM

Well I think i made a better account of myself against Talon this time than last time. It was actually fairly even (well, he still had the advantage, but I still had momentary dreams of snatching a draw, lol), right til I overlooked a move that forced me to abandon a defensive piece and I lost my knight. Grrrr, maybe I'll turn the tables in the endgame

Oh well, I'll have ya next time, eh mate

I break up for Christmas today, and as I only have internet access at work I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I'll see you all in 2007 for what I'm sure will be an exciting round 2.

Take care.

thebarman

It's ok, PA. We're just lulling him into a false sense of security

In participating in this tournament I have realised.....

That I can't play chess worth a crap.

^Guess what, no one knows how to play at first. There's always time to learn though Keep it up, arb. No sense in giving up just because you got stuck in a group with Talon and barman (winner and runnerup of last year's tournament). Keep practicing. Learn from your mistakes.

When I first joined my school's chess club - guess how many games I lost... all of them!
I couldn't play to save myself. I was throwing away pieces left right and centre; and that’s assuming I lasted more than 10 moves.
There was this one individual who I could never beat, and yet I played him day after day, until one day (after a few months) I got a draw. Then after that, almost all our matches ended in draws. And then one day I finally beat that plonker!!!! And in the months that followed it came to a point were he simply couldn't beat me and I moved onto stronger opponents. And after 3 years in that chess club I was in the top 3... then the top 2, and in the final year I finally won the tournament and became champion.

And the result? In the last year I've only lost one game in all the tournaments on this site.



Now, I'm not saying the moral of the story is play for an hour, five days a week for 5 years, but I am saying we all start of somewhere, and nobody wins their first match. Even the grand masters had to start somewhere.

Arb,

PA and Talon are right...don't give up. It's unfortunate that you were landed in a group with two very good players.. Yet in another sense it's a good thing to play different levels of players as you gain more experience. Reading through the chess game and some moves may help your cause also.

You have done really well considering Talon and thebarman were in your group. (which I am not looking forward to. ).

Haha, thanks for the encouragement everyone, I'm practising right now.....

No sense in starting something then walking away, eh?

merry christmas to all, and to all a good night...
~signing off...

Hello Chess players and the big man on campuss, SaRuMAn .lol
Just to let everyone know that I'm on my last game before Group "C" will be completed. The rebirth and I are neck and neck as with that its almost of matter of time before one of us wins. The rebirth offered a draw , but I wished not because we are so close.Plus I think I only have 2 wins. So nothing personal rebirth,.... its a matter of challenging myself as well as trying to excel up the ladder here in this tournament.


We will post soon
Abecrombie {the rhp zombiedog}

Is anyone else having problems at the moment with RHP? When i click on the link to any games, the board comes up, but there are no pieces on the board to display

edit: problem fixed

I've sent out a couple of challenges to improve myself and see what I'm up against next round. But I've still got one slot left to play against any person if someone wants to challenge me.

I'm up for a few friendly games while waiting for the new round.

Thanks Burnsie, but someone took my last spot already. I'm nearly through a couple of other games so it shouldn't be too long

Ok, I freed up a slot now for ya, Burnside. Challenge issued. Sorry Bardude, you're on holidays and we hadn't started our match yet. I'll challenge ya as soon as I have a free space to do so.

You're on.

I think I might be in order to make it 2 losses if you don't mind a challenge

Anyway.. If you have a slot open I'd be happy to play, my RHP name is KBAchess.

Err - Group F looks interesting - SaRu's obviously through on 24 points, but then there are three players tied with 12 points each - what's going to happen there?

FallenGodling has actually quit the tournament, so he won't be going through - which means that it will Snake6024 and Cat Scratch Fever who will go on to round two.

Only 15 games left to go before round one is finished, so shouldn't be very long now.

well I'm about to be mated by KBA (in fact its probably happening as I type), I didn't even see it until the very end when there was nothing I could do about it.


... damn

^^Wow...just...wow Thats something you don't see everyday! Thank goodness KBA isn't in the tournament.

thats what I'm thinking. I also got a game going against someone called East... he's kicking my a$$

There's always next year

Or.. this year?

[edit: although PA just caught me in my own trap and won. Good game PA ]

happy new year!!
*goes to get another beer*

Thanks, it was a fun game - so much so, I was actually hoping you'd get out of the counter-trap just to see where it headed.

Oh well, you give me hope against Talon now. KBA beat Talon. PA beat KBA. Logically then, PA should beat Talon, lol. I just gotta stop making stoopid moovs, I think .

therebirth is kicking my can can to the curbstone here , he offered draw , i declined ,..later,.. i offered draw he tells me i had my chance "its do or die "


jerry lewis= voice{ hey lady?}

Abecrombie

nevertheless we are neck n neck now......yikes

anyone seen silver thong? time is running out...

you say that, but you know you are under my boot now

Feel free to take any and all timeouts at this stage to help get us on to round two.

I noticed this morning that about five games had been completed but hadn't been reported, so there are now only 11 games left to complete. I've updated the scoreboard to highlight those players in yellow who have completed all their games and have definately qualified for the second round.

Once we have three confirmed yellows for each group, the second round will get started.

Ech, I should have.. although to my defense I haven't played much chess in the past couple years, and I've never been all that great online. But then again I'm just making excuses here for messing up Maybe I can redeem myself a bit with our rematch.

If any of you are challenged by a guy called Max Cady, don't play him. He's a bad loser.

I correct myself. He's a really bad loser

What does he do or say when he loses ?

He starts a new game against you, and once enough moves have been made so that it can't be deleted, he begins sending PMs saying that he's a fantastic player and the only way you could have defeated him is by using a computer program.... then he sends another one.... and another... and another, all pretty much repeating the same message. And when you finally reply 'Dude, I didn't cheat, you win some you lose some, it happens to everyone. Don't be such a bad loser', he sends a final message saying 'lolololololol, come on cheater, I beat you this time'.

My guess? - he's got all the maturity of a 5 year old.

^What - you mean you don't use a computer program, lololololololololololol??????

Max Cady, definitely on my "not to play" list. though if he has any skill, he probably wont' have any need to send me those silly PM's

This is the second time I've had to apologize for recent inactivity in the tournament, but I have been busy with coursework and other things. I will try my hardest to complete each game ASAP.

i took up a practice game against PA, and only 20 moves later im dead.

yo,..you just might be reborn, rebirth. teehe

Yeah, sorry bout that. If you use that opening next time, after your Queen takes Pawn and I reply Knight to c3, you should move your queen to a5 instead of c5. Your move just gave me the jump on your opening, you had to move your queen three times in the opening four moves while I got all my pieces out. THough this opening is rather difficult and full of traps, so considering your style, I think a safer bet would be to forgo that opening altogether and in reply to my pawn to e4, you might like to try and open with a much safer Pawn to e5.

Just a thought, of course.

moving my king where i did after that initial check got me right into your trap
are you kidding? that was probably the most fun game yet throughout this whole tourney, and it was only a practice game

... 7 days later.... he's still sending emails... seriously nobody play him

I'm pretty sure he could get banned from the chess site for doing that.

Well still in the process of playing game 1 of 2 against Ash taking a while would be good if there was a time in which we both were online as right now it's amove a day at this rate. Just thought i'd post where i currently am as i'v been inactive for a few days if not week.

Mike

Essentially it's just down to Ashley's games now, aside from a couple of games in group C.

Enough games have played everywhere else to determine who's going through.