| From | Message |
peterdell
1/09/2005
10:42:26
[ report this post ] |
 Subject: Nightfever Homepage 2
Message:
Ab fab - we finished an entire page.
That much promised analysis will be here soon..... Just don't hold your breathe.
Baja.... The reason no one else posted was because you took up the last slot.
Lochess.... Dare you to put your last post to me on this page.... :). It was very funny by the way.
Anyway should back in business soon. Nearly got rid of most of my games, so it will leave me free to ramble to myself on this team page.
Although I said I would let you know before assigning team games, I lied. Need to think this over carefully because most other teams want a response there and then, so it is very difficult.
Hollie well done for the win.
Thats all for the moment folks...... Many ramblings to be posted soon, oh by the way dont forget the link below.
Pete
|
peterdell
1/09/2005
10:49:50
[ report this post ] | Good link
Message:
gameknot.com/chessgames.pl
|
stonkie
1/17/2005
11:25:35
[ report this post ] | Recent development
Message:
A new page and I still haven't put a word on it, better get on the job right away! I began writing looking for an excuse to my pitiful performance in recent team games, but in fact, I found none... I hope at least some of you did better than me, I heard the team is going down in the ranks! It seems I won't fill this page so easily, I'm already out of words :) ... So I guess this is it (I'm sure I can write more), Oh wait, I got something! It was first day of school today... Now that's better!
|
leipie
1/19/2005
11:22:01
[ report this post ] | 2 Timeouts
Message:
Hello Team,
I'm sorry. I wasn't able to postpone my games during a spontaneous vacation in Austria.
Sorry for two timeouts. I hope, it won't happen again.
Leipie
|
lochess-monster
1/24/2005
09:18:47
[ report this post ] | Timeouts
Message:
sometimes timeouts are unavoidable....as are the STD's and positive AIDS tests,
when not enough preparation is used before the "encounter"
:-) Dan
|
lochess-monster
1/24/2005
09:20:03
[ report this post ] | Ok Pete
Message:
....don't ever dare me!!
hehehehehhe
Dan
|
baja
1/31/2005
02:49:30
[ report this post ] | Only 8 behind
Message:
Come on people, we're only 8 wins behind Alekhine.
Keep up the good work!
Brian
|
baja
1/31/2005
02:49:31
[ report this post ] | Only 8 behind
Message:
Come on people, we're only 8 wins behind Alekhine.
Keep up the good work!
Brian
|
baja
1/31/2005
02:50:21
[ report this post ] | Oops
Message:
Silly mouse ... it wasn't my finger that pressed the button twice :-)
|
stonkie
1/31/2005
09:23:01
[ report this post ] | comps
Message:
My comp broke again, I do not know why, but now everytime I come on GK, I can see the page but all the links are gone, yet, mysteriously, I haven't found any other site behaving like that! Has there been some changes in the page coding that would require me to get some updates for something on my comp (I gave up on trying to get Windows XP's service pack 2 the third time it had me format my comp but I got all the other Windows updates)? By the way, I reduced my maximum number of team games to 2, I can barely find some time when I may have both my body and my mind in front of a working computer since I've been having trouble with my own...
|
baja
1/31/2005
12:40:10
[ report this post ] | Windows XP SP2
Message:
Stay away from that spawn of the devil :-)
|
stonkie
2/03/2005
06:47:55
[ report this post ] | SP2
Message:
I haven't heard of anyone satisfied by that SP2 (no one has described it as a "spawn of the devil" yet though), Microsoft seems to be going down...
By the way, in my last message, when I said "Since I have trouble with my own", I meant my own computer, not my body nor my mind... :)
|
lochess-monster
2/03/2005
09:39:30
[ report this post ] | SP2 -Stonkie
Message:
Glad to cleared that up Stonkie !?!
We need that mind working as usual......!@?%#!????......:_) Dan
|
lochess-monster
2/03/2005
09:47:59
[ report this post ] | tudors on the ignore list
Message:
Well team....well team I was upset with this augustkim or whatever for putting our beloved tudors on the ignore list!!...............so I did a little investigating and found out that she's really the Wicked Witch of the North from the Wizard of Oz...
...so I.....painted the yellow brick road green....to confuse her...told Toto to continue to snap at her ankles.......hired the Munchkinsto plant little roadside bombs..ala Iraq to get her.....................and if all that don't work......
We can always have her converse with Stonkie.....once she goes insane....we get rid of her!! Don't mess with tudors
|
lochess-monster
2/03/2005
19:32:13
[ report this post ] | I speak to the freak...
Message:
A poem....
No not him....
It's you augustakim !
Tudor says you must be smart...
but brains alone don't set one apart
And since you chose to beguile my friend..
I'll warn you now...it's coming to an end
So get all the garlic you can from the farms..
And spray Holy Water under those hairy arms..
Beware of rats, and devils hooves...
And bats that cry, and unknown wolves!
You put him on your ignore list -what the heck?
Did you think it would be worth those marks on your neck?
For Tudor comes from Romania...Ha, Ha, ha
Try ignoring his neighbor......DRACULA!
|
peterdell
2/04/2005
17:51:15
[ report this post ] | Observations, observations....
Message:
She may have hairy arms (see post above), and she may have garlic breath, (to fend off Tudors neighbour), but to my eyes (and it is only a personal opinion based on the downloaded photo) she's a bit of a babe for a chessplayer.
Tudors, out of this sorry state of affairs, just out of interest you didn't get her phone number before you er well you know, you were put onto her igore list. No, no well I was just making enquiries you know for the sake of the team. If you did a personal email will do, wouldnt want to make these things public...
Lochess your poetry has moved you into the poetry greats hall of fame. (Allbeit its my own personal poetry hall of fame). Still a hall of fame is a hall of fame and there you sit alongside Keats, Longfellow and Gerald Manley Hopkins.
|
lochess-monster
2/04/2005
21:00:33
[ report this post ] | My Poem....I'm the freak
Message:
I also saw her downloaded picture........
Honey I'm sorry...I'll get you a cake...
I've already slain Dracula...in his heart with a stake..
Tudor your a friend......but for now it's goodbye...
Augustkim...I'm insane...take me back or I'll die!
|
kldr
2/05/2005
23:39:15
[ report this post ] | no more 8 behind
Message:
Baja, we are no longer 8 behind but one in front of Alekhine.
New challenges are waiting for the team!!!
Klaus
|
kldr
2/08/2005
05:44:47
[ report this post ] | three ahead
Message:
Three ahead of Alekhine!!! We reached one of our aims!
Doesn´t anyone notice that fact?
No poems, no cheerings - what´s the matter with the team?
Or have we got accustomed to success?
?????
Klaus
|
baja
2/08/2005
07:03:54
[ report this post ] | three ahead
Message:
I guess people didn't want to jinx the fact that we're ahead! :-)
... or maybe that's just me - I'm to busy with work to play any moves at the moment, but I'm still checking each morning if our team has overtaken Alekhein ... just didn't want to say anything incase we then fall back again!
Now though, I can't be blamed ... thanks Kldr ;-)
Brian
PS. Well done everybody for getting our noses ahead of Alekhein ... now lets extend the lead :-)
|
tudors
2/12/2005
11:22:47
[ report this post ] | Reply to Pete
Message:
I didn't understood what exactly you mean with "sake of the theam" etc. No, I didn't get her phone number..I didn't ask her for something like that. All the messages between us were only via gameknot.com
Tudor
|
baja
2/17/2005
01:22:00
[ report this post ] | Alekhein
Message:
Isn't it strange how we finally catch Alekhine and they suddenly burst out ahead again! Almost as if they slow down to let us catch up then to say "Ha!" and run off again.
Kinda like a bully that at a moment of confrontation legs it! :-)
I also wonder if anybody from Alekhine reads these posts ... ?
Oh well, we all need to pull together on this one and step up another few gears (what we're in 5th already? well, step on the accelerator and hope the engine don't blow!)
Well done to all on achieving 7th place, it's great to see us continually on the move up. When I joined I think we were 11th, fighting the Womens team for 10th.
I am really busy with work at the moment (hence my long posponement) but I will be soon to bolster our team's efforts ... I think I should win a good proportion of my team games (that is to say I don't look like I'll lose at the moment, but there's always the possibility of a mistake isn't there!).
See ya all soon
Brian (baja)
|
tudors
2/21/2005
00:46:43
[ report this post ] |
Message:
We are no 6 in the top now!
Good job team!
Tudor
|
lochess-monster
2/23/2005
10:39:59
[ report this post ] | Reply to Tudor
Message:
For the sake of the team!!....means for the sake of mankind in general....but you are still young Tudor......take a look at her picture again.......
Dumb Danny the poet....why did I send her that poem?
been listening to Bush too much!!
|
peterdell
3/07/2005
10:04:09
[ report this post ] | Lochess
Message:
Danny sorry to be a bit late on this post but please elaborate.
What beautiful prose did you send the fair maiden and would you care to share this flute of music with the rest of us budding poets (just for a good laugh of course).
Very little is said of our seventh place which we have now consolidated, good work from everyone. Well done team, as I keeping we are the best.
KLDR has now hit fifty wins in team matches.
Vixen still seeks further credit for the 100th team win. So have some credit.
And the first Nightfever mini tournament started over two years ago appears to be drawing to something of a conclusion. Hoo ray........ And anyone who has survived this long to see the climax must wonder where there is life is heading:))))
|
peterdell
3/07/2005
10:06:09
[ report this post ] |
Message:
By the way the last post should say keep saying.....
|
nighsight
3/16/2005
15:30:18
[ report this post ] | Running out on games
Message:
Peter said something about Night Fever members running out on games - does this mean members of our team are using Timeouts to avoid, well, postpone actually, losing?
I hope that is not the case. When you gracefully resign a lost game, the Team loses a point, but we gain a small measure of respect with our opponents because you followed chess etiquette.
When you drag out a lost game, or worse, allow it to Timeout, the Team loses a point AND the Team as a whole to some small degree must now bear the albatross of your unfortunate and improper decision.
If we win, let us win with grace and skill. If we lose, let us represent ourselves and our Team by showing our opponents the proper respect.
I realize I am new and may not have earned a right yet to speak in such a manner. When it comes to conducting ourselves, I think we all have an obligation to remind each other of the standards we expect of each other (and of ourselves).
Be well.
Jeff
|
peterdell
3/17/2005
05:47:04
[ report this post ] | Nighsight
Message:
No I meant our team members were literally running out of games. Look Fsubear and Donnie dont have any matches at all. (The word on needs to be replaced by of - I did mention it was a waste of time reading the monthly update)
The timeouts were a different matter, which most teams dont stand for.
However Nighsight has raised a good point. In the forum discussion boards it is common acceptance that timing out a game is considered poor etiquette (apologies Robertowen) and is not really acceptable.
If as players we feel it is unacceptable to timeout on other teams (which I think it is) before passing or allocating new games to a teammember that has timed out, I could insist on requesting for that person to reinstate the game and either resign or finish the match.
Nighsight on your last point. Many matches I have seen resigned when our player was maybe one piece like a bishop or knight down. At my level you can guarantee your opponent will make at least one mistake. I suggest that players actually keep going as you can often salvage a draw or win. See my result against Biachhi (apologies for spelling). Probably different at the higher levels.
Comments please?
|
baja
3/17/2005
05:49:13
[ report this post ] | I'm being poached!
Message:
They're after me! Help!
"Hello, baja!
hello, you are a very good player. But you are playing in a team which is not so good. You are almost the only person who get's points for that team. That is why i have an offer for you. My team is standing 5 now, and we are searching for just 2 or 3 good players to join, to finish the team persons. We will be number 1 at gameknot. So that is why i ask you. Would you like to join our team? Please think of it and please answer me back
greetings ****"
|
baja
3/17/2005
05:59:30
[ report this post ] | Needless to say ...
Message:
... I'm not about peg it to another team! I happen to like it here and theres plenty of Liverpool supporters (pity about last night's result).
|
peterdell
3/17/2005
06:00:06
[ report this post ] | Baja dont leave.........
Message:
I will get Lochess onto this straight away........
My feeling (and this is purely personal view) is if she’s female and you like the look of her go for it. Chess has non business in these matters. See Tudors recent posts.
Alternatively hold yourself out for a better offer.
If it is the team I suspect………(Watch out the captain is really a man!)
Hope this helps
Pete
|
peterdell
3/17/2005
06:02:54
[ report this post ] | Baja
Message:
The message is nonsense anyway..........There is no better team than ours.....
We are the best....
I think later on its time to go on a counter offensive.
|
baja
3/17/2005
06:05:39
[ report this post ] | Don't worry
Message:
Didn't mean to scare ya! :-)
I know he's a man, after all, he signed the message as Dirk!
|
stonkie
3/17/2005
23:19:23
[ report this post ] | It's been a while
Message:
I haven't written for a while but I took the time to read the posts once in a while...
First, Nighsight : Don't feel like you have not been part of the team for long enough to tell your opinion, it only shows you have the guts to confront your point of view to the others'. I hate those generally accepted thoughts, it almost feels academic, but that still is what I meant to say... Oh and don't forget this doesn't apply to me, you must always accept my words as universal truth for if you doubted my words, then you would doubt your opinion's right to be told (because I just said you should think by yourself), and you would conclude yourself not intelligent enough to make an opinion. This would make you realize that you cannot say I'm wrong and you would be forced to accept the opinion I just annonced saying that your opinion counts and I'm always right... :)
Second, Tudors : It is always easier to seduce with text (even though I'm personnally more easily convinced through oral... I mean spoken words!). That is because you have more time to think of what you write, that's true, but also because the memories of a moment is volatile while a letter stands as a tangible proof of your feelings toward a girl. I always think things through before writing something for a girl to make sure the way I write is as beautiful as the feelings I want to express... I could never write such a dull, meaningless word as love or any other words that represent a common feeling known of everyone to describe such an important emotion as my own desire toward a girl (I'm a native french speaker, and I haven't developped my vocabulary deeply enough to do the same in english)... By the way, a girl is never cute, she has a beautiful smile, innoncent eyes or nice looking hair, it sounds much better...
|
tudors
3/17/2005
23:35:19
[ report this post ] | Baja
Message:
Why joining some other team and not actualy work for "climbing the hill" ? And like Pete said...maeby it's a woman..beware if it's a woman on gameknot :) "hello, you are a very good player. But you are playing in a team which is not so good. You are almost the only person who get's points for that team." I agree with the "very good part" but the rest is... Did you reply to this guy? Maeby he wants to join our team and he doesn't know how to say it :)
|
tudors
3/17/2005
23:41:21
[ report this post ] | Stonkie
Message:
Did you practice the french kiss too? we all want to learn new tactics from a native french speaker :) just kidding...
Tudor
|
baja
3/18/2005
01:08:53
[ report this post ] | Re: tudors
Message:
Yep, I replied; it went somthing like this ...
"Thankyou for the invite, but I would have to respectfully decline it. ... A team, in my opinion, isn't just about getting to No. 1, it's about playing together and gaining enjoyment out of it."
Needless to say, you are stuck with me :-P
|
peterdell
3/18/2005
01:42:13
[ report this post ] | New team match.
Message:
Just to say we have started a big team match against The Club. Games can be reviewed on the team page in Gameknot. Hopefully the battle for seventh place against Poland will commence shortly.
This will be Carlaagn’s first games for the team. FSU Bear is back in business for the second challenge and this is Thomski’s first games on a welcome return.
Good luck to everyone.
Pete
|
stonkie
3/19/2005
01:47:39
[ report this post ] | I wonder why I say this...
Message:
In fact, I just wanted to hide that I'm 17 :) (18 in less than a week!!!)... By the way Tudor, I'm from Quebec, not France, but our kisses are great too (I guess so, I haven't travelled enough to compare...)! See by yourself :p (demo smily)! That joke would have been much more funny with real smilies (maybe), I wonder if it will ever be implemented... Until then, is it possible to use html to display images hosted on imageshack (or another image hoster)?
|
stonkie
3/19/2005
04:15:56
[ report this post ] | Second part...
Message:
Any of you realized my last post ws quite short? That is why I will now continue on the same subject : you're the flower of my spring, the sun of my summer, the colors of my autumn and the heat of my winter... I had my little brother (16 years old) write (a french translation of) this to his girl. I hope her reaction to "the heat of my winter" wasn't too bad...
About Baja's story : a team filled with 30 players rated 1200 could get on the top, it is all about the players they are opposed to. That means the top is accessible to any team that is lucky enough to win the most fair games (with both players equally rated), it seems like it's all about luck to me (we could send spies in other teams that will lose all of their games, but that doesn't soud very fair, let's talk about it somewhere private :) ...) ... Seriously, I think the odds go for the team with a captain that knows how to analyse player weaknesses and strenghs by looking at their games so that the games go to people who have more chances of winning. All that to say you won't have more chances to get to the top with another team unless they don't play fair, so why change! Even though I wandered off subject, what I'm particularly interested in is to know is why do they all want to become the no. 1 team at all cost!? There will be no one who knows you personnally that will ever learn about it if you ever achieve it, so all you'll gain is self-esteem and the pride of acheving something, but if you get it through seducing other players (I heard it might have literally been a seduction...), accepting only easy challenges and the likes, your self-esteem won't increase much and you won't have the feeling you achieved something at all!!! By the way, a team captain that seduces players by saying he's a girl HAHAHA!!!
|
kldr
3/22/2005
00:43:33
[ report this post ] | victory
Message:
Have to report one victory against "Poland", the opponent "emerytus".
We overtook them again because each victorious game means two points for our team.
I´m rather proud. :-)
Klaus
|
peterdell
3/22/2005
05:10:57
[ report this post ] | KLDR
Message:
Wow. that was sharp work......:))). It was a pretty one sided affair. Dont want to tempt fate but The Poles must hate us...we have such a good record against them........It gives encouragement to everyone else.
Saw you used my old favourite the queens gambit. Is that your usual opening or do you switch?
|
kldr
3/22/2005
09:03:23
[ report this post ] | queens gambit
Message:
If that opening I used is called queens gambit - yes, Pete, I often use it because I like it.
But I don´t know much about chess theory, of course I have heard many of these opening names but don´t know which one I´m using and if I´m using them the right way.
I just play chess the way I think it is best to win. That´s why I often lose. :-(
Think I have quite a good eye for the board although I make some dreadful mistakes.
Don´t follow my example you other team members!
Klaus
|
kldr
3/22/2005
10:36:43
[ report this post ] | 2nd victory
Message:
Second victory against Poland, "emerytus" again.
:-) :-) :-)
Klaus
|
leipie
3/22/2005
23:40:54
[ report this post ] | 4 matches won
Message:
I just wanted to tell you, that I won my last four teammatches. It's starting to be funny. I'll try to go on like this.
Greetings
Fabian
|
tudors
3/24/2005
03:34:06
[ report this post ] | teamgames
Message:
I have now a teamgame against one romanian player...I'm from Romania too...Well, one game is lost..but the other is mine :P. Pete, you wanted to see if I can win against my compatriots? And this one has a nice rating too...1683 :P
Tudor
|
peterdell
3/24/2005
10:08:48
[ report this post ] | Catching up.....and Stonkie
Message:
KLDR - I will wait to see how the other results before I declare Nightfever the official winners of this match and the unofficial rulers of the country...Excellent results. The march towards the Warsaw has begun.
Leipie - Fantastic, I had a look at a couple of your wins against Gitsome. Very one sided matches it must be said.
Tudors – I will post your match up for analysis in the next couple of days give something for Stonkie to review. Nice result. It’s always good to beat someone higher in the ratings table.
STONKIE – HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Enjoy yourself over the weekend, and if all that soppy romantic stuff doesn’t work, you can now take your girl down the bar, get her smashed drunk, and have your wicked way….Its just as effective.
HAVE FUN THIS WEEKEND. On your return, I need you to represent us. Go to the Arsum Empire home page…. Go via the ladyinred link below, join the captain’s forum, say you are representing “Nightfever” in their website and find out what is happening. Please don’t be seduced by the gorgeous gameknot.com/stats.pl?ladyinred527
Bit worried about what might happen to you in Ladyinred’s private forum, but we need to be part of whatever is happening on GK. Come back and let us know….. that is whats happening in the forum, not what you did on your eighteenth birthday don’t want to get thrown out of GK.
Hopefully you will have some good stuff for us soon.
Pete
|
stonkie
3/28/2005
01:55:35
[ report this post ] | What happened on my 18th bithday...
Message:
Well, we wouldn't get thrown out of an elementary school's students discussion board, it was supposed to be a family reunion and only my grandmother came (and no alcohol)... Then there was Easter, a much larger reunion on the other side of the family, but it began at 5 pm and ended at 9 pm (and I spent all that time listening to my aunt's "40-years-old-boyfriend-which-still-live-with-his-parents" telling me all the crazy things he had done at his 18 years old birthday!)... Family reunions are so boring...
About that web site, I'm going to check this out right away (you talk about it as if it was some kind of secret organisation of some kind... cool!)...
|
stonkie
3/28/2005
02:42:00
[ report this post ] | ???
Message:
I've just taken a look at this website's captain forum... I thought it was a tournament of some kind, but it turns out to be a discussion center about what should team captains do in certain situations and since I have almost no knowledge of the way a team is managed, I doubt it would serve the team much if I joined the forum (the other forums are locked with a password I do not know so I didn't pick up the wrong forum)... I do not mind joining, but could you tell me more first?
|
stonkie
3/28/2005
04:23:09
[ report this post ] | No title
Message:
I forgot to say a couple of things just now...
First, I saw the team's mini-tournament is almost finished, I would like to be part of the next one, so don't start it until I can finish the one I'm in please (which is at 89% completion and 11 players... and it's endless!!!).
Second, no, I haven't just learned the expression "some kind"...
Third, I just won my first team game in a very long while and a second one is coming real soon...
|
lochess-monster
3/30/2005
06:18:58
[ report this post ] | Merger
Message:
I don't like the idea....#'s 1.2, or three don't mean a thing if we have to "buy" a good team........I like the world-wide makeup, the personalities, the different skill levels, and the humor of Night Fever. We'll lose our "charm". That;s like that other team trying to give Baja a "signing bonus" to abandon ship.
But most importantly.......I can't see another 30 or 40 people....trying to figure out what Stonkie is saying............
p.s. ....... this is only a rumor.....but someone mentioned that Stonkie is really 81 not 18.......he just forgot how old he is.......nursing homes do that!
|
| | Maximum number of reply messages has been reached |
|
