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irish-pete
1/02/2004
18:05:07
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 Subject: Vlad's Impalers -- Part 6
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There was a flurry of messages recently on Part 5 -- so make sure you have read everything at gameknot.com/fmsg/chess5/1462.shtml.
More good stuff to report tomorrow.
The Killer Bee
Irish-Pete
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terryaki
1/03/2004
20:17:51
[ report this post ] | team motto!
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What type of team motto do you want?
A light one like: Life is a game, we just do it better!
Heavy ones like:
Vlad's Impalers - beyond nature and belief!
Vlad's Impalers - it's a life, not a choice!
Some borrowed from the Air Force Squadron:
Vlad's Impalers - fast and furious! (vampire F52, 1956)
Vlad's Impalers - fearless forever (vampire N54, 1957)
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Anyone have any ideas about what they want for a team motto?
John
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lexherman
1/03/2004
22:23:10
[ report this post ] | Congratulations!
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Zormaster plays (4!) games in a row with my team mate Duffy (elo 1200) of Phoenix rising. A newly started team. I like to congratulate her and the team on probably 4 glorious victories! I especially enjoyed the bragging about it on your thread.
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zormaster
1/04/2004
00:31:09
[ report this post ] | Congratulations!
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We are so pleased with your Congratulations.
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lexherman
1/04/2004
00:49:16
[ report this post ] | wonder
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how many teammates of the once so proud Vlad's are as pleased with my congratulations.
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drdesoto
1/04/2004
07:45:33
[ report this post ] | These Team-Matches ...
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are getting much to serious for my taste.
1. Quote from lexherman "Five things about chess: 1)...oh yes... it is only a game."
2. Rating is rating, obtained through timeouts or by "real" losses. We have had billions of threads on this topic. GK rules are clear to lose 100+ matches in a row by timeout brings your rating down, worst case a 1000 points (e.g. brunetti). I personally think this is stupid but the vast majority of GK players I have discussed this issue in the forums think itīs just fair and that a timeout loss has to be counted just as a loss by play. So itīs also just fair to gain points against 1200 ELO players being a 1200 ELO player "by timeout".
3. I do like the GK systems how to match players for team matches and I do see its advantages (because I like to play against players of my strength/rating) but is a system like this common in CC? Itīs definitely not in OTB as we all know, and nobody is complaining! You just present your team may it be 500 Elo points stronger than any other team and than you play.
A friend of mine is playing at the moment in Germanys first chess-league on a lower board between 6 and 8. He faced 2 GMs and 2 IMs so far with e.g. GM Gurevich (2644) with around 400 ELO points more than he got. Donīt ask him about his score, but thatīs real teamchess-life.
If we will come to a team-league once (which I would appreciate very much) we would have to change our team-system anyway (as we have also done for the GK Olympics).
In my view the current system is no real team competition, "discussions" like the above do prove this. Match settings, player line-ups and strategical team discussions (e.g should board 4 take the draw or play on) considerd as unfair and tricky at GK, are for my taste an essential parts of team match fun.
Best,
drdesoto
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cairo
1/04/2004
10:30:01
[ report this post ] | Well
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spoken Christian!
I knew these people from southern Germany is made of this "special" stuff :-))
Best wishes
Cairo
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zormaster
1/04/2004
11:30:51
[ report this post ] | leave
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Shall i leave the team to bring the storm down which goes up by my team pressence? If so i will
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drdesoto
1/04/2004
12:32:38
[ report this post ] | No way ...
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Natacha-Michelle!!! Nothing N O T H I N G wrong or unfair has been done. This is just a storm in the water-glass, nothing else!
Hehehe Soeren: As you know we Bavarians do sleep on the floor (of course outside the house), eat raw meet, and drink at least 20 pints of beer a day - my friend has made 1/2 out of I think 7 so far. He is not longer allowed to sleep outside the house on the floor. He has to sleep naked on a frozen lake (please donīt ask him about his score - he is crushing skulls!)
Best,
drdesoto
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zormaster
1/04/2004
15:00:35
[ report this post ] | satisfied
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I am satisfied, back to almost 1500 rating and 9 games started with players rated between 1800 and 2170. Team games are still rolling on- 5 finished and 3 to go.
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Vlad's Impalers for now and ever!
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irish-pete
1/04/2004
16:31:39
[ report this post ] | Hold the Fort
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I am a little busy now but please everyone wait til you hear from me. You will be hearing shortly.
Let us avoid public discussion for now.
Zor, I have discussed the issues with you. We need not air the tempest in a teapot openly.
Pete
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zormaster
1/05/2004
00:24:31
[ report this post ] | Hold the Fort
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Okay Boss
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terryaki
1/06/2004
05:40:56
[ report this post ] | Congratulations!
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Congratulations to my teammates, Don and Natacha, for their recent wins!
Sincerely,
John
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drdesoto
1/13/2004
11:13:00
[ report this post ] | Holde the Fort
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In silence? Nothing new, no poems?
Best,
drdesoto
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zormaster
1/14/2004
13:47:20
[ report this post ] | No poems
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I love poems :>)
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irish-pete
1/18/2004
09:01:43
[ report this post ] | Sorry guys and gal
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but i have been down for the count recently. Barely able to keep my games moving. Hopefully, I should be on the mend soon.
Pete
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cairo
1/18/2004
09:26:26
[ report this post ] | I
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have to apologise to my Team-mates, I have lost 3 Team-games allready here in the new year, very bad :-(( Whole last year I only lost one!
Well the competion is getting harder and I promise to sharpen up my form to come back again. In the mean time, I think my Captain, should put me on lower boards, it is painful with all this beating!
We shall return :-))
Best wishes
Cairo
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zormaster
1/18/2004
09:52:05
[ report this post ] | I
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No worries cairo. Be happy you can lose because you are after all human and not a machine who doesn't care a loss. Still going strong, after all you are one of the top players in our team and at GameKnot!
Come on buddy! Head high! ;>))
Yours, The Mighty Zor
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cairo
1/18/2004
10:49:37
[ report this post ] | Thanks
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Mighty Zor, I allready feel better :-))
This is all what a great Team like The Impalers are all about!
Best wishes
Cairo
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irish-pete
1/18/2004
10:51:19
[ report this post ] | On the makeup for the boards . . .
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Just thought it might be helpful to know how the boards are set. I choose the members of the challenge, but after that GK software selects who is on the boards -- highest rating has the highest board. That is why Zor managed to get the fourth board recently -- her rating was undeservedly low. (And no other active team member had a lower rating.)
Pete
A rhyme in time is not a crime even though a wall you will climb
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terryaki
1/20/2004
00:21:12
[ report this post ] | Open reply from the lower boards
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To players with high ratings, wanting to play, on the lower boards.
Your confidence has been an inspiration to this team. You have helped create
a group of players with not only excellence in skill and results, but also transcendence in character. You have helped create a team with players from different nations cooperating to complete against other groups.
We have all lost at one time or another, but as one of the higher rated players on this team told me, playing against higher rated players will improve my game.
You have earned your place on this team. Even if you do not win, make your opponent bring his/her best game to win. Make it take everthing they got to beat you. That is what we ask of you. We are proud of you and proud to be part of this team!
So back to the upper boads, have fun, and remember fearless forever...
John
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cairo
1/20/2004
01:21:35
[ report this post ] | Well
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spoken terryaki, truly as a member of the greatest Team at GK, The Vlad's Impalers.
You surely have a bright future in this game, with this attitude and your talent.
Back to the "Scull Crushing" :-))
Best wishes
Cairo
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carlosmart
1/21/2004
08:15:12
[ report this post ] | I feel sorry
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to announce my first lost in a team match vs Papani playing black.
I wanted to do a variation in the middle game but really it was a positional mistake.
I hope the second will be later.
Carlos
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cairo
1/22/2004
00:07:53
[ report this post ] | With
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all the points you have collected to the Team, there is absolutely no reason for being sorry Carlos. You doing great- keep it up!!
Onwards you scullhunting warriors :-))
Best wishes
Cairo
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irish-pete
1/23/2004
01:15:39
[ report this post ] | LOOK . . .
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at the team description --- and it isn't finished yet. If you have any additions, let me know.
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Everyone knows Zor is a master,
and she wants to be a grandmaster.
But to play Pete is to court disaster.
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zormaster
1/23/2004
05:40:19
[ report this post ] | LOOK . .
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What can i say versus so much wisdom of our senior captain ;>)) hihihhi.
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irish-pete
1/23/2004
07:42:21
[ report this post ] | Friends, Romans, Dutchwomen . . .
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I will finally be making the move into my new home. It is back to my boyhood hometown -- (and get this Zor, it it the Home of the Pennsylvania Dutch). It will be official on Feb. 1 (which for Americans is also Super Bowl Day).
I will be moving into part of a former church -- about 1800 square feet -- that is 167 square meters for all you metric types. So you can call me Captain Pius Bee.
"Honey is sweet but the bee has a sting"
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terryaki
1/25/2004
09:15:46
[ report this post ] | New team description!
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The new team description is dynamite Pete!
Thank you for your work on it.
Did you have any help with it?
Best wishes for your move back to the Keystone State of Pennsylvania!
John
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irish-pete
1/25/2004
12:09:02
[ report this post ] | And the answer is . . .
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that I have asked the team members of most nations to translate for me. I had a problem being able to insert cyrillic. All we need now is someone with the British version. :) If anyone has any other languages to add (hint: Portugese, Croatian, Czech or an anglicized Russian), let me know.
"Honey is sweet but the (Killer) Bee has a sting"
Oh, someone can add Texan, Wisconsinese, and Tennesseen.
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zormaster
1/25/2004
12:20:15
[ report this post ] | And the answer is . . .
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Not my faulth that Mikes bloody webside doesn't accept Russia language. i tryed in four or five different ways but nop, zero, nul, niks, niente capito, non, nein. NOTHING works! At other chess sites i communicate with Russians and not a single problem, only here and at Satnsco. That sites gives some translation but it is some old one. poor me. :((
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irish-pete
1/25/2004
13:05:18
[ report this post ] | Pat, pat, pat . . .
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pitter pat on the head of Zor . . .
Though I am not sure it is the site's fault.
"Despite the documented evidence of chess historian H. J. R. Murray, I have always thought that the game of chess was invented by a goddess." George Koltanowski
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irish-pete
1/25/2004
13:06:45
[ report this post ] | LOL
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Snicker.
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zormaster
1/25/2004
13:31:33
[ report this post ] | You......!
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Grrrrrr i am sure i dream this night about old chess captains, killer bees and other bad stuff!
I hope you have a pleasant stay in your new home!
Zorrie xx
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