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Thanks Janet and Good Luck!
Hi Janet,
So, you are taking on your own Titans - good luck to you! I must also congratulate you on your recent High Draw against Dongoodman who is almost 100 points north of your rating.
I wouldn't mind having a pop at High, Rodog, Merlino and Fleet Commander in a Jo against the Titans 4 MT either but I think that had better wait until I have played out my games in this current Jo aganist The Titans game and also our first Walk the Walk and Learning to Run MT before I take on too many more games.
Anyhow, although things are not looking good in our current game, I will keep Henry upright a few more moves to see if Glenda can conjour up any miracles!
Anyhow, I hope you have a nice day.
See you at the board!
Joanne
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Ladies,
You are both very accomplished chess players; your records show that without any doubt. What I am wondering about is why your games against highly ranked players on this site would have to be unrated. Especially regarding correspondence chess (which is what we have here), I really don't see why there would be a demand of "unrated" - surely, all of us should be ready to accept a loss to a player better than ourself, at least at that point. Why not? That is the question!
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well i this case
all the GM's listed except 'cyrano'
insisted they be unrated.
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'Most' high rated players also care about maintaining they're rating. They are very competitive. They 'know' that there is a 20-30% chance of having to play against 'Houdini and Fritz,and many other computer programs. That's a fact of life here. I will not judge them. If i win a game or draw a game against one of these GM's, in my book that's a win or a draw.The fact that its not rated means nothing to me.
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@brigadecommander
Thanks for the informative reply! I am a little confused about you calling these very highly ranked GK players GM's (=Grandmasters). To my understanding, GM is a unique title awarded by FIDE based on strict rules, although there may be a different GM title for correspondence chess (?). Do you know whether these players are indeed GM's?
Anyway, I agree completely with you that the actual games are much more important than the GK rating
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some are GM's
Cyrano and Merlino are GM's. Others i don't know if they are,but assume they are, or have super computers. The question is moot. Either way i can learn a great deal from them. I use 4-chess sets for analysis. Also i use chessgames.com for its enormous game collection. Especially the recent(1970-2012) collections.You can cross-check many variations. The database on chessgames.com's Opening explorer allows you to go directly to the Games that are relevant to the variations you seek to understand. That's what these top rated players do.They have a fine-tuned system that i am just beginning to understand. Of course personal move preference is important. But that is more important in the middle-game i think. If i have a pet move i like to play in any given opening, and the game base proves to me that the move is inferior by Master game examples (however much i like it) i select a better move..memorize it,use it, and update my personal gameknot database,so i have it in hand.. All this is a lot of work. Until now i haven't had the time.But i am free now till late spring from School.
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@brigadecommander
Your reply was very much appreciated! It brings forward some very crucial issues about "what is important": (i) to be aware of (and/or have access to) all relevant databases up to a certain point in the game, or (ii) to always approach the situation de novo (as in a face-to-face OTB game).
On top of that, I am curious about how you know Cyrano & Merlino are (true) Grandmasters. If you are correct, I am truly pleased!
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we are all Italians!!!
Because i know one of them well. And the other through a mutual friend. And there has to be others. I too play OTB. But here on gameknot its relatively slow postal chess. Usually ones rating is around 100 points lower in OTB then here on gameknot. Mine certainly is. You don't get to look up the latest innovations while playing OTB.
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mille gracie!
since the system complains that the above is too short, I repeat "mille gracie"
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Against cdeburca
Believe or not, I recently did this. It happened, right after (on game after), my loss against easy19. And, there were some similarities, with that particular game. This time, the Walking the Walk, happened against a Class B Player. In addition, I met my fate almost, as quickly as, my game against the Master Mater. This time, it happened in 20 moves. In addition, this person mated me in a similar way, that Master Fred mated me. However, the mate involved a Knight and Queen, not a Bishop and Queen. What player am I alluding to? cdeburca. Like my game against Fred, this game was just annotated, and the annotation is shown below. gameknot.com
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Jack Stockel
Last Friday was the first time, in over a month, that I got to play against Jack Stockel. Although I rarely viewed my general games against him WTW, I do now. Why? I used to but no longer volunteer because I now have a full time job. However, when I can, I stop in to the place that I used to volunteer, in order to play a game against him. Therefore, any game is more then just OTB coaching, for it is Walking the Walk. Afterall, I only stop in so that I can learn more and walk through the process with him, and see what went wrong. Note: That's part of what the orginal Walking the Walk club was meant.
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Now, here's the thing, I finished a game against Mr. Stockel, three days ago. I have the positions written down on a separate sheet of scrap paper. I am probably going to annotate the game by the end of this week, or maybe by early next week, and there was a lot to learn, from it. This might be hard to believe, but Jack is a chess coach not a mentor. However, that is extremely difficult to tell because he is almost as specific and goes into almost as much details, as that of a mentor. In fact, I learned almost as much from that game, as I did with mentor, myellivuk, from the Group H Mentor, for this club. When annotated, I am also going to post this, under the annotation thread, as it is significant.
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I'm sorry, I meant myevilluck, not myellivuk.
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Believe it or not, I am starting to work on this annotation. However, this is going to take two or three, probably three days, to complete the annotation and make it public. Therefore, it will take longer, then any other OTB game, that I have annotated, for an unusual reason. The thing is that annotations that there were occasions where it took me at least a month to annotate a particular game, as it was long. In addition, I was, at first, not interested in annotating it. Then, I suddenly changed my mind and wanted to annotate it. This time, however, I have to set up the long game before I can even make notes on my moves, and this game involved 44 moves. After that, I can then annotate. Unlike before, however, I am planning to break it up in parts as it is very long, so it is hard to analyze all of them in one day. As a result, I am calling this the Jack Stockel project.
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When the annotation is complete, however, I am planning to post it in this thread, not the annotation thread, as any chess game with Mr. Stockel is an official Walking the Walk Coaching game, from here on in.
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jkarp
20-Jan-13, 18:37
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jkarp
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Ok, I finished the Jack Stockel project. There was a slight miscalculation. When I first edited the positions, there were mistakes. Then, I fixed some of them but made other miscalculations. By the third time, however, I accurately got most of the positions down. In fact, unlike a previous annotation of my game against Jack, I remembered about 95% of what was played, in this particular game. When Joann annotates a game, she comments and shows the game analysis. This time, however, the analysis is the annotation itself, given that this was an OTB chess game. I learned a lot from this game. I also changed my mind about where to show the annotation. You can find the annotation under the, "Annotation", thread.
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