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Pity the pawns

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Bangkok almost

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When to play and when not to play

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It’s highly likely that I will be able to play in a 9 round tournament this month if I want to. I don’t want to though. I’m too rusty amongst other reasons. It doesn’t help being cursed by an artificially low rating as well. I suppose we have to be informed enough to know when its a good idea to play and not a good idea. It takes 7 rounds for me to get into the groove sufficiently, and that’s just too much. It’s just not possible to enjoy the tournament when most of it is spent in a state of unreadiness. Perhaps I will take the train up and spend a day or two watching games and catching up with old friends…that might be better.

The frontage from such decisions don’t really help decide where the balance of importance is going to lie in terms of playing on-line and playing down the club. It seems stupendous to suggest that my off line life may overtake my on line life but you never know. In retrospect there is, of course, no comparison between OTB chess and online chess. The caveat is, though, with OTB you get those who suffer from NBPE syndrome (not been punched enough) and they can be bloody annoying gits if they want to be…ah yeah, there is that I suppose…

Mark

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Doom, death, collapse, obliteration

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I will be frequenting one of my clubs again quite soon but for how long I don’t know yet…

It will be nice to play OTB chess again…

Snow falls in winter and when it falls all is silent…

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