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Near-IM Innes challenged:

"you want to play too? bring it, i'll play you both simultaneously.
or put
some money up. anything! anything but more saxon würds"

**more würds, i'll play you too! but will need to increase the time limit to
15 minutes, in case of the 'i am beat but won't resign and am here to eat
your time factor', a straegy learned in newsgroups

**as a matter of interest, does anyone here actually play chess? i have
asked people before, but they have been unresponsive. i tried to ask if
anyone had encountered a certain variation OTB and someone wrote in to say
what the book line was... ;(

**a week ago i was speaking with a local tyro, a 2350 otb player, who says
he is now 1600, and together we discussed endings - neither of us knew
anything about them, nor much more about openings either [we both lied] but
only with würds! since the sense was that the fight was everything, and
remembering positions that you couldn't work out for yourself ensures many a
patzer stays a patzer

**with a combined 80 years of chess playing, neither of us had ever
encountered a KBN v K endgame, and we had to 'figure out' which corner you
have to get the K to, rather than 'remember' which it was

**i wonder if anyone here has ever played a KBN v K endgame, from either
side?

**Phil Innes

Brave words, a near-IM challenging to simultaneously tackle two OTB
patzers, with Sloan as his second! But how brave a Celt would he be
if challenged by another chessic titan? How bold a Celt to tackle
Fritz-bot or Keene? Evans or Smirnov? Spassky or Jim Beam? True
masters of the game.

Flail away if you will at the patzers and duffers, the hapless
victims of self-mates and hanging Queens; but fool yourself not into
thinking you are very brave or a bold adventurer, climbing these tiny
molehills!


-- help bot